Graphite Airport Base Station (need help)

[MacTCP]

I just won this Graphite Airport Base Station. It will be used as a bridge.

 

[macintoshman]

Neat that it has a 56k modem and a USB port.

 

[Christopher]

Swwwweeeeeeeeettttt

 

[Torbar]

Neat that it has a 56k modem and a USB port.

I don't see a USB port...You probably saw the ethernet port.

 

[MacTCP]

It came today…

Floor 1:

Ethernet Hub/Power Macintosh 4400, Macintosh LC III, 400mhz iMac G3 (with Mac OS 9.2.2/Mac OS X 10.1), Graphite AirPort

Floor 2:

AirPort Extreme UFO that is successfully giving the internet wirelessly to my Intel iMac, eMac, and Power Mac G4

What I wanted to do is have the internet on Floor 1 wirelessly. Now when I'm setting up the base station with my iMac G3, it looks like I can't share the wireless internet from my AirPort Extreme to my Floor 1 Ethernet Network. The choices for connecting to the internet in the AirPort Admin Utility are just Ethernet, PPP, and AOL. There is no option to connect wirelessly to another base station…

How do I get this to work, and is it possible?

 

[MacTCP]

I found out that it is, indeed, impossible.

Who wants a base station?

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[dudejediknight]

If i wasn't busy having my own problems, I could have told you that. The original grey ones lack the ability to act as a hotspot.

I suppose if you attached it to a computer with a wireless card, you could then use the ethernet port to share the connection with the Base Station. That way, it'd technically be a hotspot, but that computer would have to stay on to maintain the link to the rest of the network.

And then, depending on how dubious you are, you could use that hotspot to mess with the people trying to leech your wireless access (like I read about somewhere on the net a while ago, the link to which I can't find right now).

Worst case, it has an original Airport card in it, doesnt it? im sure that'd be worth a few bucks if nobody wants to take it off your hands.

 

[Patrickool93]

The graphites have WaveLan Silver card in them.

 

[MacTCP]

I suppose if you attached it to a computer with a wireless card, you could then use the ethernet port to share the connection with the Base Station. That way, it'd technically be a hotspot, but that computer would have to stay on to maintain the link to the rest of the network.

I just tried that with my G4. The results were my G4 mysteriousy losing its ability to connect wirelessly to anything with its airport card. (No, the base station didn't make a successful internet connection either)

I do not believe there is any way to do this, is there? -__-

 

[Christopher]

I had that very same problem with one of my airport cards. I think how I fixed it was, I either installed OS 9 and re did the airport update or Panther. I can't remember. But it did require a reinstall of the airport drive and it worked again.