Thanks to a tip from Noel, I went to CompUSA today and picked up a Linksys WET111 (a wireless ethernet bridge) this evening. I brought it home, and realized what he meant by “These are a bitch to setup the first time, but work like butter…” as the damn thing doesn’t come with a Mac configuration utility (or if it does, I couldn’t get this old iMac to read the CD).
Luckily, I brought home my laptop from the office just for this sole reason. The setup utility was a snap to use under XP. I plugged in the little bridge via its ethernet cable, loaded the CD into the CD tray, and viola, the CD auto-ran, and the config utility came up. A few ‘yes’ buttons and I was all configured. I reset the bridge, and checked it on the PC. It worked fine.
I unplugged it, and plugged it into the Mac… and viola! I’m now surfing wirelessly on ‘ol Faithful via a Linksys Wireless Ethernet Bridge.
Thanks for the tip Noel. (this means I can now be more productive in my non-office hours again)
My server is down today, a DOS attack. I’m actually quite pissed about it… But let’s not get me started.
You can configure the thing through the web too… It’s kinda tricky.
Check out this article, http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/wireless/2002/09/11/wet11.html
kir doost! it works!