Mac Forum / General / Networking / March 2004

I have a brand new Compaq Presario 2100 which came equiped with an
802.11g card.  I've fiddled around for a couple of hours with it and
had Apple tell me I'd have to "Call XP"  and an Indian guy at the
Compaq toll free number is having me repeat the same steps over and

I recently moved the majority of my documents from my desktop machine to
a dedicated AFP server running netatalk 2.0a1. In addition to the
desktop machine, I have a Powerbook connected via Airport Extreme. Both
are running Panther 10.3.2. The following behavior was also observed

I use WEP and in addition I run a closed network so casual war drivers
can't see me . . . although I'm sure the really dedicated evil ones can
if they want.
I realized that if someone should manage to get into my wireless net,

I've a bevy of oldish Macs here, and I'm about to get a DSL connection.
If I had the cash to spare I'd get a Netgear DG834, but I've got a
dullmodem and all this old hardware ...
I've got a couple of ancient PC things lying around, and everyone says

I run a very small personal maillist in connection with a HS team and
have just received a mass rejection from AOL that says for each AOL
account on the list:
Final-Recipient: rfc822; <xxxxx@aol.com>

The activity light on my cable modem and the rightmost light on the
Airport Extreme base station connected to it flash almost constantly,
even when all networked machines in my house are off or sleeping.  Is
this something I should be concerned about?  What is the likely cause?

I'm about to get a G3/266 and network it to my ppc7500/300.
Surely i'll have questions, What's the best newsgroup for thoses
questions? here?
thanks.........DaveC

I recently placed an iBook running 10.2.8 on my wireless network.  IP is
set for DHCP and I see I picked up an IP just fine in my local subnet.
I can ping other boxes using IP addresses, including two boxes running
DNS on my network.  I can telnet to those boxes.  But whenever I ...

I've noticed that when an article has "charset=utf-8" in its
Content-Type header, MT-NW uses a smaller font than normal.  I went
through all the text font settings in the Preferences and changed them
to 10 points, but it didn't help.

Well, I've fallen behind the times.  I've done a lot of Mac work
previous to OS X and I thought I could get this sorted out and can't
seem to do it.  I'm sure I'm missing something...
Here's my setup:

I have bought an used Elsa usb modem; I would like to use it on my PB
Titanium 666.
I have tried to find the right driver and script; i have got a script
from a site in Germany:

I am installing a new USB camera here shortly that is compatible with
OS 9.
It's primary purpose will be family digital photography.
The model can double as a web cam according to the specs.  It is

I am just starting to set up a wireless network. I began with an Airport
Extreme base station, and an Airport card in my iBook, and may want to
include a PC laptop at a later date. I also play music on my stereo
using SlimServer software and a Squeexebox.My iBook did not usually see

A conundrum.....
I have a MAC G4 networked to a Linux PC and a Windows 98
PC on the same network. The Linux PC is acting as a local DNS
server. Both the Linux PC and Windows PC are providing SMB

Any reason I can't get my iBook to talk to a computer running WinXP,
via a crossover cable strung between the Ethernet ports?
In the "Connect to server..." command in OS X, I get a "-36" error
code. File sharing is enabled for the My Documents folder on the XP