Post #23,187
1/4/02 10:37:10 PM
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GOSH DARN AIRPORT BASES!!!!!!!!!
I had a harrowing experience today with four of those things.
I had 64 brand new iBooks running OS-X and four of these Airport Bases.
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!
Dam thing, according to the documentation, you should be able to just plug it in the your network and configure it via the 802.11b side of things.
BOINK!!! Nope nadda can't do. (well at least these four I got)
Darn thing would not Bridge ethernet to the airport stuff. Would at first do NAT and DHCP, then it wouldn't.... Then I "defaulted" it from the configurator... wouldn't. Then I did a Paperclip power on (if ya got one you know what it is), kept settings from before. Then it just stopped responding. Did another paperclip power-on reset. All seemed better, it finally was able to configured with the wizard. I set the passwords, the IP address for the ethernet side, set the DHCP range and DNS info. Ha! Oh yeah... cracked this thing SHUWAH!!
Dam thing looked right, acted like it should have, everything. I created the proper network on the default channel with no encryption... blah blah, it restarted..... no worky. changed this restarted again...no worky. changed that restarted again...no worky. changed sumthing else restart....etc Felt like Windoze...
Please repeat this 3 more times with other new airbases...
Airport to Greg: IN YOUR FACE BUTT!!!
Go get one of my(spare) Avaya Orinoco WAPs... Works first time, does ethernet bridging, dhcp relay from my network DHCP Deamon.
BAH-humbug, Apple get yur shit together on these things.
greg, curley95@attbi.com -- REMEMBER ED CURRY!!!
In 2002, everyone will discover that everyone else is using linux. ** Linux: Good, fast AND cheap. ** Failure is not an option: It comes bundled with Windows. ** "Two rules to success in life: 1. Don't tell people everything you know." - Sassan Tat
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Post #23,189
1/4/02 10:44:52 PM
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All that aggravation for twice the price ;-)
You were born...and so you're free...so Happy Birthday! Laurie Anderson
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Post #23,227
1/5/02 11:10:32 AM
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Now for an opposing opinion....
I've never had any problems configuring my base station.
Tom Sinclair
Speaker-to-Suits
The pre-luncheon drinks were going quite well, Mr Bucket thought. Everyone
was making polite conversation and absolutely no one had been killed up to
the present moment.
-- (Terry Pratchett, Maskerade)
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Post #23,233
1/5/02 12:44:42 PM
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Airport tower workers must have been asleep
and you found a way to wake them up?
"In order to completely solve a problem, you must make sure that the root of the problem is completely removed! If you leave the root, the problem will come back later to get you." - Norman King
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Post #23,265
1/5/02 7:17:49 PM
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And what did Apple tech support say?
Did you try to configure the stations via the Ethernet interface?
Just asking....I've had very good luck with AirPort and even when I didn't, Apple determined that it was a hardware issue and sent me a replacement free of charge.
(A lightning bolt had grounded right next to our house and blew out an Ethernet hub as well. Everything else was okay.)
Tom Sinclair
Speaker-to-Suits
"You've got a lot of time for abstract thought when you've got your hand
stuck up a dead badger."
-- (Terry Pratchett, Johnny and the Dead)
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Post #23,276
1/5/02 8:53:23 PM
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Re: And what did Apple tech support say?
Tried today. Via ethernet... Crosstalk cable and without... on our network and not... NO fricking luck.
Of course you were using OSX 10.1 right. I have really decided that these airports SUCK.
I thought the Avaya Orinoco WAPs were bad...
Done with em thaar Airports...
greg, curley95@attbi.com -- REMEMBER ED CURRY!!!
In 2002, everyone will discover that everyone else is using linux. ** Linux: Good, fast AND cheap. ** Failure is not an option: It comes bundled with Windows. ** "Two rules to success in life: 1. Don't tell people everything you know." - Sassan Tat
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Post #23,298
1/6/02 10:31:49 AM
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Umm...actually
When I first got my base station, OS X didn't exist. (I think I was using OS 8.something).
You may have a hardware issue. If you haven't contacted Apple support yet, please do so. I had very good luck with them. One tech sat with me for about two hours, running down every possibility before finally determining that the HW was nuked. (And getting me a free replacement)
I'm sorry to hear you're having such a bad time with these.
802.11 is really the bomb, at least when it works.
Tom Sinclair
Speaker-to-Suits
If the Creator had said, "Let there be light" in Ankh-Morpork, he'd have
gotten no further because of all the people saying "What colour?"
-- (Terry Pratchett, Men at Arms)
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Post #23,325
1/6/02 9:55:12 PM
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802.11
It cranks!
I have contacted Apple support, they have agreed that my bunch of Airports they shipped me came from a "known" bad batch. These systems and iBooks were a direct ship from Apple. They caught all but a few "early" shipments of them. Looks like I won the Grand Prize being a early one!!
These were all bought as a part of a Grant we got. We are getting 2 more iBooks instead of airport replacements. As the orinoco WAP I have is cheaper and they connect just as well using that, as they would have using the airports.
One thing I have about this whole thing, Why... oh WHY... does Apple have to make things like those airports as ugly as they do, just like the "hockey Puck" mouse for the iMACs we have... GAWD! The colors and see through stuff, fine... just make it fit into my office environment without looking tacky^H^H^H^H^Hout of place...!!!! But please the funky shapes and such... nope. Sure they look cool, but when the novelty wears off.. come on!
greg, curley95@attbi.com -- REMEMBER ED CURRY!!!
In 2002, everyone will discover that everyone else is using linux. ** Linux: Good, fast AND cheap. ** Failure is not an option: It comes bundled with Windows. ** "Two rules to success in life: 1. Don't tell people everything you know." - Sassan Tat
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Post #23,328
1/6/02 10:04:49 PM
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Early bad batch - it's the pioneers that get all the arrows!
There is value in not being an early adopter.
Alex
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. -- Blaise Pascal (1623-1662)
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Post #23,399
1/7/02 3:34:52 PM
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All part of the new airport security policy
Nothing around any US Airport should be functional.
Blame it on Ashcroft.
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Post #23,419
1/7/02 5:37:51 PM
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Smack, smack, down boy!
"Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it."
-- Donald Knuth
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Post #23,433
1/7/02 7:16:24 PM
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Why.. even my Jack Armstrong Tru-Flite\ufffd paper planes
refuse to fly now unless..
I replace the penny in the nose.. with a dime, and stick a Marshall in the cockpit with the pilot.
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