Mac Forum / General / Networking / June 2006

I'm on a G5.  Why is the program identifying me as on an Intel Mac in
the User Agent line?

For about the last three years I've been using OSX on an ibook.
These have a keypad within the main keyboard, enabled via a
function key.  Directly above the 7 8 9 top row of this keypad
are some functions keys (F6-F9) which are easily remapped to

How do I need to configure my Di-524 to find my "Ethernet Printer"
conected directly to the Di-524 wifi router?
I just can't find the printer on my network.
The LEDS of the Ethernet connection on the Di-524 and the HP2100-m

Any recommendations for brand/model of a WiFi base station? My only
hookup for a while will be MacBookPro, fwiw, and the only thing I can
think of that might not be standard is a way to hook up an antenna if
needed.

The airport icon in the menu bar is grey, and no network is checked, but
I'm still getting mail, accessing the web and retrieving newsgroups.  
Connection doctor and the Network preferences panel both say that I'm
connected and all is well.

    I'm trying to do a UDP broadcast but, while it seems to succeed,
my client doesn't receive the message.  My client is bound to port
112233 on 192.168.0.3.  I try broadcasting on port 112233 using both
the 255.255.255.255 and 192.168.0.255 addresses, but the client sees

Dear Friends,
Greetings from Brasil,
I´m a really new user of mac os and im setting up my new acquired old
performa with mac os 8.6.

How does one figure out the WEP key correspondng to an Airport Extreme
network password? I've got an APE in a mac mini functioning as an ad-hoc
base (via internet sharing) and want to connect a Buffalo Wireless Ethernet
adapter as a client. The Buffalo sees the Airport, but can't ...

I would like to extend the range of my Wifi LAN by adding a cardbus Wifi
adapter with an external antenna to my TiBook
A good thing sould be that the adapter can use the native airport driver
insted of an external driver

I have a PowerBook G4 running MacOS X (10.4.6), and a smartphone Palm TREO
650.
I would like to connect my PowerBook to the Internet with the TREO 650 via
Bluetooth, but the TREO 650 does not appear in the list of Bluetooth modems

I think my Firefox 1.5.0.4 prefs are florfed but I can't seem to find
them in my Preference folder.  I've been having problems in this and the
immediately previous version to include (1) inability to page down using
the page down key, (2) inability to install extensions (it says ...

Hi. I just began using DSL supplied by Verizon.   When I had dial-up
with another internet provider, I used MT-Newswatcher for newsgroups.
I am trying to use it with Verizon, but I keep getting Authenticaton
errors.  I called Verizon and talked to a tech support person. He

OK, here's a strange one.  A relative connects fine with her 33 modem.  I
connect fine with the internal 56 modem in my G3.  We have the same
service, different homes.  If I bring my entire box to her house, plug it
in and try to connect, I get the "can't find modem - check ...

The documentation says that it can use the Cocoa spell checker, but the
Spelling options under the Edit menu are always disabled for me. Am I
doing something wrong, or did one of the later OS X releases break this?
I can do spell checking via an external checker such as Excalibur.

What is the compatibility matrix between wireless devices?
I'm trying to connect an old g3 Imac wirelessly and having
a tough time figuring out what devices talk to each other.
Right now there's a wired network with a g4 Mac Mini (Airport