However, I'm still unsure exactly what I would need to connect to the empeg. An airport card? I've got a spare one which I'm looking at now, and there are no RJ-45 connectors or anything.

Exactly. The empeg has an RJ-45 ethernet jack. So the only things you can plug the Empeg into are things that also have RJ-45 ethernet jacks. That's why you can't use an airport card in your empeg. In your case, the list of things that you can plug into is:

- Airport base station (using a crossover cable).
- Computers with ethernet plugs (using a crossover cable).
- Hub (if you have one, using a normal cable).

As far as needing the airport base station in the car, well, that's one of those extra-geeky things that we won't get into right now. You don't need to have the empeg ethernet-docked in the car unless you are an extreme-turbo gadget-freak and you want to do it for the novelty value.

Otherwise, just bring your Empeg into the house, plug it into a computer with a crossover cable, and load your tunes with JEmpeg. That should be plenty for you.

The only concern I have for you is that, since you don't own a PC and don't have VirtualPC, you have no way of applying the empeg's software upgrades. You need at least version 1.01 or 1.02 on that player for it to be trouble-free, and I'm guessing it shipped to you with 1.0 installed. Check in the player's "About" menu to see which software version it's running.

If it's only running 1.0 I'd find a friend with a PC and a 'net connection, and go download Emplode 1.02 and the Car2-1.02 upgrade file, and upgrade your player with the serial cable.

Sorry this is all so silly and confusing. That's what you get for buying a mac, though.

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Tony Fabris