So I got my Airport Base Station and Airport Card today (free through work! 
) and I'm trying to get my iMac without Airport card to share my dial-up connection via the Base Station. I can see my iMac from the iBook with Airport, so I know the iMac is connected correctly (physically), but when I try to connect to the Internet to check mail from the iMac, I get an error from Entourage saying "check your TCP/IP connections". What I'm wanting it to do is ask the Base Station to create a PPP connection and use that over Ethernet to check mail/surf, etc.
I set up TCP/IP on the iMac to use Ethernet as its connection. I couldn't get DHCP to work, so I manually set the IP/router/subnet info. The Airport manual said to select "Airport" as the "Connect via" but there's no Airport card in the iMac. I tried running the Airport installer on the iMac, just to see if that option would appear, but it didn't.
Everything works like it's supposed to from the iBook. When I ask for a PPP connection and one isn't already up, the Base Station creates one and I'm good to go.
The documentation seems kind of skimpy in this area. It didn't mention if I needed to connect the Base Station to the hub with a crossover or regular cable (regular works) or if the port I connect the Base Station to should be set to Normal or Uplink (I think mine is set to Uplink).
Thanks for any help you can provide,
Matthew
P.S. I installed the most recent Security Update today, via PPP over Airport, and of course I had to reboot. After I started back up and logged in, *the PPP connection was still open, and I could start surfing right away*! SWEET!
) and I'm trying to get my iMac without Airport card to share my dial-up connection via the Base Station. I can see my iMac from the iBook with Airport, so I know the iMac is connected correctly (physically), but when I try to connect to the Internet to check mail from the iMac, I get an error from Entourage saying "check your TCP/IP connections". What I'm wanting it to do is ask the Base Station to create a PPP connection and use that over Ethernet to check mail/surf, etc.I set up TCP/IP on the iMac to use Ethernet as its connection. I couldn't get DHCP to work, so I manually set the IP/router/subnet info. The Airport manual said to select "Airport" as the "Connect via" but there's no Airport card in the iMac. I tried running the Airport installer on the iMac, just to see if that option would appear, but it didn't.
Everything works like it's supposed to from the iBook. When I ask for a PPP connection and one isn't already up, the Base Station creates one and I'm good to go.
The documentation seems kind of skimpy in this area. It didn't mention if I needed to connect the Base Station to the hub with a crossover or regular cable (regular works) or if the port I connect the Base Station to should be set to Normal or Uplink (I think mine is set to Uplink).
Thanks for any help you can provide,
Matthew
P.S. I installed the most recent Security Update today, via PPP over Airport, and of course I had to reboot. After I started back up and logged in, *the PPP connection was still open, and I could start surfing right away*! SWEET!