i don't have a laptop but i can tell you that if you are only going to do text editing or things like that, on my 450mhz G4 desktop OS 9 is very fast for things like that.....also …

I am now the owner of a 1GHz TiBook. What I'm curious about is, it has a 1GHz G4 and can boot into OS9 (pretty nifty), although I hadn't played much around in OS9 (just got it and…

Unfortunately I already have the latest version (2.0.4?) if the AirPort software.

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=120120 Software update for OS9 is not really maintained by Apple anymore, so far as I can see, and so seldom if ever works. You have…

I don't know. I wasn't able to get it working under any sub versions of OS 9. Also, if there is an update available, I can't get it. The MacOS update utility has always been hit a…

Two thoughts: 1. There is an Airport update available for OS9, as I recall, and though one would have thought it included in 9.2.2, you never know.... Worth a shot? 2. I mostly u…

I own two tangerine iBooks and one has an AirPort card in it. Because of its limited specs (128mb ram, 300mhz G3, 4mb Vram and a 12gb hard drive.) I decided to install 9.2.2 inste…

My PM5400 works pretty well for browsing, as long as java stays off.

Thanks. That did it. I can connect to the server from the Mac, and transfer files. Now to see if I can get macipgw to compile... Interestingly enough, the response from Asante (w…

I have a stack of silvers I use with my old Thinkpads and Wallstreets. Under OS 9.x with the wavelan drivers you need to input either 0x or x before you type in the WEP key or it d…

Have you considered simply getting a game adapter and using that for wireless? I have a WGA600N velcro'ed to my TiBook/867 which is powered off the FireWire, and the WGA handles th…

The difference between the "Silver" and 'Gold" Lucent cards is the "Silver" only supported 40/64 bit WEP, while almost everything else in the universe uses 104/128 bit WEP. The ori…

Can anyone help? I am having trouble connecting on my home network with my Powerbook 1400/166 equipped with a Lucent/Orinoco Silver card. It works fine on the open network at work,…

Not sure if this is applicable in your situation, but I'm running Netatalk under Slackware 13 (upgraded from Slackware 12.1). After my upgrade, I noticed that I couldn't connect t…

I would concentrate on getting AFP going. At least that is what netatalk is good at doing.

Porter, Thanks a lot. That was interesting. I removed (well, commented) the config line in the atalkd.conf and restarted services, then power cycled the AsanteTalk. when I check…

I would clear the address and zone information from your netatalk.conf. Zones only make sense to netatalk if it is active on multiple network cards and acting as a bridge between …

If I unplug the AsanteTalk for a minute, the Mac tells me that the AppleTalk network is not available. If I then plug it in I do get the alert from the Mac that the AppleTalk netwo…

Once the machines are all up and running and you think everything should be working, unplug the power to the AsanteTalk, wait a minute, then and re apply the power to it. This sho…

.conf file stuff: from atalkd.conf: fxp0 -seed -phase 2 -net 1-1000 -addr 1000.142 -zone "weif" This seems to match what I see in /var/log/messages afpd.conf is empty (except t…

the AsanteTalk packaging says it allows your ethernet Mac "to communicate with up to eight LocalTalk devices, including LocalTalk Macintoshes and LocalTalk supported printers." I w…

Thanks for all the tips, everyone. Yes, the kernel was compiled with netatalk enabled. I don't see any errors (at least nothing I think are errors) in /var/log/messages when I st…

Unless the Asante bridge is one of those "crippled" bridges that only work with printers, I suspect it's just "dumb" bridge and will happily shunt AppleTalk packets back and forth …

I'm actually more interested in the Asante box. Do you have another known-good Mac you can put on the other side of the bridge to make sure that the Asante is routing AppleTalk cor…

It'd be handy to know a bit more about your Netatalk setup (maybe post relevant parts of the config files: atalkd.conf and AppleVolumes,default would be good). Did you re-compile…