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Best way for a G5 to connect with wifi?
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<blockquote data-quote="Tuppy" data-source="post: 1887996" data-attributes="member: 408224"><p>Success! The old Mac G5 Quad-core is now able to connect to the Internet! But it isn’t through the USB dongle as I thought it was going to be; it’s through the Airport Extreme card after all. A friend of mine who had some old G5s looked inside them and spotted a Runway card in one, the thing I needed for my Airport Card to attach to, and he gave it to me.</p><p></p><p>So I put the Airport Extreme card onto the Runway card, put the Runway card into the G5, plugged the two little wire antennas into the Airport card, buttoned up and started up the Mac, and presto! the G5 can now link to the Internet through our home wifi network. </p><p></p><p>Now my old Adobe GoLive website-creation-and-management software on the G5 is able to upload changes to my websites (I made a few small changes and uploaded them to test it). That was my main goal all along: website management using the old GoLive software that that won’t run on any Mac newer than a PowerMac G5. So that goal has been achieved.</p><p></p><p>As a bonus, the other three computers on our home network can now connect wirelessly to the G5 and share files with it, should I ever want to do that.</p><p></p><p>However, the G5 itself can only connect to two of the other three Mac. When I try to connect it to the Mac Pro that I use on a daily basis (and that the modem is plugged into), I get an error message on the G5’s monitor that says:</p><p></p><p>“Connection Failed. This file server is running on your machine. Please access the volumes and files locally.”</p><p></p><p>Sometimes a different error message comes up that says: “Connection Failed. There was an error connecting to the server. Check the server name or IP address and try again.”</p><p></p><p>Can anyone tell me what those messages mean, and how I might correct the problem? I’m afraid to make any changes to the network settings without knowing what I’m doing, for fear of losing what I have right now.</p><p></p><p>Tom</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tuppy, post: 1887996, member: 408224"] Success! The old Mac G5 Quad-core is now able to connect to the Internet! But it isn’t through the USB dongle as I thought it was going to be; it’s through the Airport Extreme card after all. A friend of mine who had some old G5s looked inside them and spotted a Runway card in one, the thing I needed for my Airport Card to attach to, and he gave it to me. So I put the Airport Extreme card onto the Runway card, put the Runway card into the G5, plugged the two little wire antennas into the Airport card, buttoned up and started up the Mac, and presto! the G5 can now link to the Internet through our home wifi network. Now my old Adobe GoLive website-creation-and-management software on the G5 is able to upload changes to my websites (I made a few small changes and uploaded them to test it). That was my main goal all along: website management using the old GoLive software that that won’t run on any Mac newer than a PowerMac G5. So that goal has been achieved. As a bonus, the other three computers on our home network can now connect wirelessly to the G5 and share files with it, should I ever want to do that. However, the G5 itself can only connect to two of the other three Mac. When I try to connect it to the Mac Pro that I use on a daily basis (and that the modem is plugged into), I get an error message on the G5’s monitor that says: “Connection Failed. This file server is running on your machine. Please access the volumes and files locally.” Sometimes a different error message comes up that says: “Connection Failed. There was an error connecting to the server. Check the server name or IP address and try again.” Can anyone tell me what those messages mean, and how I might correct the problem? I’m afraid to make any changes to the network settings without knowing what I’m doing, for fear of losing what I have right now. Tom [/QUOTE]
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