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Mainyehc
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Hey! I recently installed an AirPort Extreme Card on my Rev. A iMac G5, and was very pleased to see that after turning on Personal Web Sharing on System Preferences and configuring an AirPort network with WEP encryption, my brother's iBook connected to the internet almost flawlessly (except for the fact that strangely, Microsoft Messenger won't connect to the server at all - more on that on the post immediately next to this one).
Now, I attempted to do the same feat with my father's Sony VAIO with XP MCE, and while it once connected to the network, web pages wouldn't load at all... I've checked all the options, the passwords, etc. (yes, Airport Internet Sharing is active on the Sharing tab, as are Personal Web Sharing and Windows Sharing, both on the Services and Firewall tabs), and now, it won't even connect. The Wireless LAN starter thingy from Sony won't help, either. All it does is bringing up that hideous Wireless network chooser from XP (as if I didn't know how to open it in the first place, after all those baloon pop-ups appeared from the taskbar, ugh).
Two different networks will appear (they both bear the name of my iMac, so that means XP is at least detecting them, with maximum signal strenght): one "Computer-to-Computer" network, with an icon depicting two laptops connected wirelessly, and which asks me for the WEP password, but then fails to connect; the other is a regular network connection, with an icon depicting an antenna, and which fails even to ask me for the password. It shows an error dialog saying I may be out of range (when the signal is in its maximum strenght... ***?).
<rant> I f'ing HATE Windows!! </rant>
Any suggestions as to what is going wrong in my setup? It surely seems to be properly configured on MY side of the fence... I don't know about that mangled XP beast, though... Any help would be much appreciated!
Now, I attempted to do the same feat with my father's Sony VAIO with XP MCE, and while it once connected to the network, web pages wouldn't load at all... I've checked all the options, the passwords, etc. (yes, Airport Internet Sharing is active on the Sharing tab, as are Personal Web Sharing and Windows Sharing, both on the Services and Firewall tabs), and now, it won't even connect. The Wireless LAN starter thingy from Sony won't help, either. All it does is bringing up that hideous Wireless network chooser from XP (as if I didn't know how to open it in the first place, after all those baloon pop-ups appeared from the taskbar, ugh).
Two different networks will appear (they both bear the name of my iMac, so that means XP is at least detecting them, with maximum signal strenght): one "Computer-to-Computer" network, with an icon depicting two laptops connected wirelessly, and which asks me for the WEP password, but then fails to connect; the other is a regular network connection, with an icon depicting an antenna, and which fails even to ask me for the password. It shows an error dialog saying I may be out of range (when the signal is in its maximum strenght... ***?).
<rant> I f'ing HATE Windows!! </rant>
Any suggestions as to what is going wrong in my setup? It surely seems to be properly configured on MY side of the fence... I don't know about that mangled XP beast, though... Any help would be much appreciated!