designated blah..And yet...

[martin ewen]

I worked out shortly after conception that essentually I was blah, i could put this in 'How do i make my computer work?' or 'festival reviews' or 'diseases I am suffering from.' but I'll save time by putting it all together.
I just bought an airport extreme base station and 2 airport cards, one for an imac and one for a 3 year old iBook, the setup went swimmingly and told me I was connected to the internet by ethernet...but I wasn't.
My isp is optimum cable.
Clues anyone?
I have just been diagnosed with lime disease which if left unchecked, results in a degenerative brain disorder. (It seems to me I may as well have been born with it)
Its not specially serious if you catch it and go through 25 days of industrial antibiotics (day 2)
It just means you live for a short time with a temp of 102 and apparently it can make you cranky...(LOOK OUT...CRANK SQUARED)
moving on (and please don't gush, sympathy only annoys me)
Last week I went undercover to the IJA conference in Buffalo for only one night with only one objective, I was to seek out Dan Holzman and stare at the back of his neck until he scratched it. I would like to report that my mission was a resounding success, not only did he reach back to cover the back of his neck at the Renegade show but he spent most of the evening looking strangely vague and uncomfortable and excused himself early, slipping past me inches away as he left, a small high pitched whine escaped him. I can only presume his show is very kooky.
After spending the night in my Sleepwalker® on the floor of Roberts hotel room I moved on from that den of symetrical epilepsy and went to a 2 day festival in Tarttown (named after a particular fruit, not pregnant teenagers)
There I met the NY fiddlesticks men for the first time and I must say i have never meet more approachable, cleanliving percussionists in all my days.

Can someone make my airport work?

[Steven Ragatz]

I am not specifically familiar with the airport/Mac networking issues, but if your machines are showing a "connection", it could just be an indication that they are communicating with the base station and that the base station is where you don't have a connection to the outside world.

Since you have one IP address associated with your setup, you will have to have a router to map that single address to multiple machines. I can only assume that the base station works as a router as well as provides a wireless hub.

There should also be a modem in the mix, since you have to have some hardware that connects with the ISP. It may simply be a matter of getting everything powered up in the correct order. Try this: Turn everything off, then power the modem and let it connect (a couple of minutes). Then power the base station so that it can get the IP address that the modem has acquired from the ISP. Then power up your computers and see if they get the address that the router maps.

Perhaps some of the forum's mac-o-philes can be more specific. Hope this helps.

Steven Ragatz

[martin ewen]

Thanks steven
I have solved the wireless thing and so can combine my lifes greatestest pleasures, pnet and being waist deep in compost in a ditch at the side of my house, (Its soo warm)