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Wonder if anyone can help...I've been desperately trying to figure this out for the past 3 weeks with no luck ! I am currently in Germany with my macbook (osx 10.6.3)and bought an O2 usb dongle for internet access. Also have a windows xp laptop+ windows vista laptop which kids use. I've tried setting up a network in the hope they could get internet access but it's not working whichever way I try ! I don't know much about computers or networking but here's what I'm doing, and i'd be really grateful if someone could tell me either I'm wasting my time as it's not possible to do this, or tell me what on earth i'm doing wrong:
in system prefernces, network the location is set as automatic location. i did set up a new location and experimented but that didn't work either. Under "automatic location" it shows ethernet as en2 being currently active and connected. The HUAWA modem shows as not connected. That doens't make sense to me but that's what it shows.IPv4 is configured usng DHCP whatever that means.
I've got the network name set up and windows sharing is on. I've also got file sharing and internet sharing ticked, selected sharing connection from ethernet adaptor 2 to all computers using airport, ethernet, and HUAWE mobile.
I've enabled internet sharing on the windows vista laptop, can see the network name, it shows connected, but doesn't work ! I did set a 13 character access password as well.
Where am i going wrong? i've spent hours on this so far and can't sort it out. Went to a genius bar in London at the weekend - they tweaked it all a little and set the mac to "share the connection with other comps from HUAWE" but it still didn't work - and when I looked at the connection in my location, it showed I was connected from ethernet 2, not from HUAWE mobile...it's driving me nuts and I dont understand any of this !Can anyone help?thanks
in system prefernces, network the location is set as automatic location. i did set up a new location and experimented but that didn't work either. Under "automatic location" it shows ethernet as en2 being currently active and connected. The HUAWA modem shows as not connected. That doens't make sense to me but that's what it shows.IPv4 is configured usng DHCP whatever that means.
I've got the network name set up and windows sharing is on. I've also got file sharing and internet sharing ticked, selected sharing connection from ethernet adaptor 2 to all computers using airport, ethernet, and HUAWE mobile.
I've enabled internet sharing on the windows vista laptop, can see the network name, it shows connected, but doesn't work ! I did set a 13 character access password as well.
Where am i going wrong? i've spent hours on this so far and can't sort it out. Went to a genius bar in London at the weekend - they tweaked it all a little and set the mac to "share the connection with other comps from HUAWE" but it still didn't work - and when I looked at the connection in my location, it showed I was connected from ethernet 2, not from HUAWE mobile...it's driving me nuts and I dont understand any of this !Can anyone help?thanks