and when someone has no life :)

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That's why you can't use an airport card in your empeg

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Partially true. However, you can buy an adaptor into which you can plug an 802.11b card and which, in turn, would plug into the Empeg.

Have a look here.

Of course, it ain't cheap.

Nick.


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That is all an Airport is. If you open the unit up it has a Lucent Wavelan card inside. Much cheaper even with a modem.

Proud Owner of MK2 080000558 - 18gb Blue

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That is all an Airport is

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Not quite. The airport is a base station and won't talk to other base stations (there is a thread discussing this somewhere on this BBS). Using this adaptor will keep the card as a node (probably not the correct terminology, but YKWIM).

Nick.


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I stand corrected. At first glance to the page I thought it was the Wavepoint II Access Device. Upon further inspection I see what you are talking about.

If you purchased the ethernet only version and a card you would be out just a little more than an Airport. Doesn't really say anywhere but I wonder if you could talk from card to card. I have a WaveLan card in one of my PC's along with a wired nic. If the card in the convertor would talk directly to the card in the PC without the access point present then it might work pretty well.

Proud Owner of MK2 080000558 - 18gb Blue

I think card to card chat is part of wireless. Access points are a way to provide a wired net access to the wireless devices and vice versa. Some cards have drivers that allow a pc equipped with both wireless and wired nics to act in place of an access point.

-- Glenn

Might be a bit late on this comment... But Macs don't have serial ports anymore. So much for applying patches using it.

Might be a bit late on this comment... But Macs don't have serial ports anymore. So much for applying patches using it.

Well, a couple of things:

1) You can get USB-to-serial adapter plugs for the macintosh. I've seen them listed at MacWarehouse. I've been told that these plugs work for getting legacy-free PC's to do serial port upgrades, but I haven't heard whether they'll work with VirtualPC+EmpegUpgrade. It would be interesting to know the answer to that question so I can stick it in the FAQ.

2) There are plans to make the empeg software allow upgrades with ethernet and USB. This is in the FAQ entry on that subject.

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Tony Fabris

3) If you want a true serial port a couple of companies make ones that fit in the modem slot on some late model Macs, the Griffin gPort is one example. You can also get PCI cards with serial ports on them that will work in Macs and PCs.

-Mike

I plan on getting a Powerbook G4 any day now (Damn stock problems...) and already have a USB -> Serial converter. VirtualPC is on my list of things to buy, so I'll try the official upgrade files and your logo editor out on it to see if it works.

(Whoever the Apple guy was at the meet managed to bring me completly over after seeing Mac OS X running on a Powerbook G4. I'll still keep the PC desktop for gaming, but it looks like an Apple laptop for my mobile work for a while)

Also, if it makes you feel better that process is a bit simpler with OS X.

What specificially did you have to do. I tried for a bit last night to get it up and running with no luck. I'll probably poke and prod it a bit more today.

Well, the installers don't seem to work very well on OS X (at least on the public beta) so the easiest thing to do is just grab the .jar file from http://ftp1.sourceforge.net/jempeg/jempeg-1.0b1.jar and save it to your home directory. Then open a terminal window and type...> java -cp jempeg-1.0b1.jar org.jempeg.empeg.emplode.MainThis should actually work on any unix with a recent JVM. Also, autodiscover does not seem to work properly so you will have to specify the Empegs IP address with the options button in jempegs connect dialog.-Mike