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G4 Titanium And Wireless Networking!
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Posted by: winblowz
A friend of mine came over with his g4 book. I have no idea how this worked, but asd soon as he turned his laptop on, he was connected to the neighbors wireless service. lol No verification needed, just connected.
How the heck did that happen? Does their service just not need verification, or does the mac just connect auto without asking?
thanks...
im wondering if I can do this with my pc lol
Posted by: g5orbust
A mac with a wireless card (airport) can and will automatically connect to the nearest, unencrypted signal (I believe it can be set to not auto connect, but I think it autoconnects by default). If there are more than one, itll choose the first it picks up and then will list the others in a menu bar.
Posted by: winblowz
awesome.. can a pc do that?
Posted by: g5orbust
Not sure about connecting but a PC will automatically pick up any network within range. Logic would dictate that PC's would have the option to autoconnect as well.
Posted by: winblowz
ok thanks :)
Posted by: d14dsp1k3
Yes, a PC can do that. Basically what I'm drawing from this topic is that your neighbor set up their wireless connection entirely wrong (meaning with a complete lack of security). A properly set up wireless network would have an encrypted network key.
Posted by: winblowz
correct. LMAO
Posted by: winblowz
the hard thing is getting a "linux compatible" networking card to work lol
Posted by: Qiranworms
Unencrypted networks are a HUGE problem. You could go into an apartment or condo building and get five or so networks within range. Chances are you'll be able to connect to three or four of them without ANY key whatsever. I once accidently connected to my neighbors network (and I didn't notice at the time). I noticed that day when I went into the network folder and realized that the computer on the network were not the computers in my house. I went into one of them, and the entire C:/ root directory was shared (also a very bad idea, whether encrypted or not). At that point I went and set up WEP for them.
The lesson: Use WEP!
And no, this isn't unique to the Powerbook. Though using OS X, it would be generally be better in wireless networking...because NetZero (the XP wireless network configuration utility) in XP is something that needs to be worked on by Microsoft (disconnects randomly too much). Windows is seriously behind Linux and Mac OS X in the WiFi user experience as of now...hopefully there will be improvement in SP2...
Posted by: winblowz
cool, thats awesome. Just awesome :).
HAHA I like ur signature...
"Error: Keyboard not attached. Please press F1 to continue."
LOL
a standard dos error? lol
HAHA! Now i found a linux compatible networking card :) hehe
:)
Posted by: Lostman
[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by winblowz [/i]
[B]the hard thing is getting a "linux compatible" networking card to work lol [/B][/QUOTE]
The hard thing is getting the drivers to work in Linux. There are some work arounds but they're not easy. Wireless is not an easy task in the linux world.
Posted by: Qiranworms
[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Lostman [/i]
[B]The hard thing is getting the drivers to work in Linux. There are some work arounds but they're not easy. Wireless is not an easy task in the linux world. [/B][/QUOTE]
Tell me about it :mad:
I never succeeded getting my no-name PCMCIA wireless card even recognized. I'm planning on installing slackware soon...maybe I'll take the time to get the thing going then...
Posted by: winblowz
yay! :D I found that the D-Link 520 will work! :) Time for network ... leeching :D
lmao
Al
Posted by: winblowz
HAHA!!! I soon win.... aways from this 26.4k.... hehe lol
now i can get the neighbors service for free once I install my wireless D-Link 520W!!! I luv wireles.... :)