corsasport.co.uk
 

Corsa Sport » Message Board » Off Day » Geek Day » Connecting a Dell laptop to an Apple wireless network


New Topic

New Poll
  Subscribe | Add to Favourites

You are not logged in and may not post or reply to messages. Please log in or create a new account or mail us about fixing an existing one - register@corsasport.co.uk

There are also many more features available when you are logged in such as private messages, buddy list, location services, post search and more.


Author Connecting a Dell laptop to an Apple wireless network
dave17
Member

Registered: 3rd Sep 02
Location: Greater London
User status: Offline
17th Feb 05 at 16:11   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

my mate has jus got a G4 powerbook and want to get this:

http://store.apple.com/Apple/WebObjects/ukstore.woa/90801/wo/Ll2MW0P4Pn7E30GvQMG28nj4EQe/0.0.11.1.0.6.61.0.3.0.0.2.0.3.1.1.0?67,42

to make it wireless for his BT broardband connection.

he currently has a Dell Insprion 5100 laptop and needs a card to connect to the apple wireless network.

will any card work or does it need to be a special one? i have searched around 4 a n answer, but couldn find anything

cheers
willay
Moderator
Organiser: South East, National Events
Premium Member


Avatar

Registered: 10th Nov 02
Location: Roydon, Essex
User status: Offline
17th Feb 05 at 16:12   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

needs a wireless card that does 802.11g
Ian
Site Administrator

Avatar

Registered: 28th Aug 99
Location: Liverpool
User status: Online
17th Feb 05 at 16:25   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

You need a router also?

Dell lappa doesn't need to see Apple lappa - but they both must see the router.

Both will support TCP/IP so you will be fine.
dave17
Member

Registered: 3rd Sep 02
Location: Greater London
User status: Offline
17th Feb 05 at 16:28   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

so a router is needed also? the apple wireless acts as a router doesnt it?
Ian
Site Administrator

Avatar

Registered: 28th Aug 99
Location: Liverpool
User status: Online
17th Feb 05 at 16:29   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

Both machines could act as router to the internet connection but the problem is that which ever computer you nominate to do this must be powered up when you want connection on the other one.

Router sits there on all the time and the laptops come and go, bit more robust.
dave17
Member

Registered: 3rd Sep 02
Location: Greater London
User status: Offline
17th Feb 05 at 16:32   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

im sorry, but i dont really understand Ian
Dom
Member

Registered: 13th Sep 03
User status: Offline
17th Feb 05 at 16:39   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

get him to get an Aiport Express as well and thats your router for the internet access

Although it might be better off asking on a mac forum or something
dave17
Member

Registered: 3rd Sep 02
Location: Greater London
User status: Offline
17th Feb 05 at 16:45   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

yeh that link its the airport express thingy.

jus found a card that supports 802.11G. might jus get him 2 try that, seems all a bit too complicated for me, hel prob expect me to set it up 4 him too
Ian
Site Administrator

Avatar

Registered: 28th Aug 99
Location: Liverpool
User status: Online
17th Feb 05 at 16:45   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

Two choices:

Use Apple laptop as router.

Internet plugs in to Apple laptop
Dell communicates wirelessly with Apple
Apple must be on or Dell doesnt have connection to internet

Use a dedicated router

Internet plugs in to router
Apple gets internet from router
Dell gets internet from router
No requirement for Apple to be present/switched on if you want to use Dell
Dom
Member

Registered: 13th Sep 03
User status: Offline
17th Feb 05 at 16:47   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

can you use other peoples stuff with apple gear then??
Ian
Site Administrator

Avatar

Registered: 28th Aug 99
Location: Liverpool
User status: Online
17th Feb 05 at 16:48   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

You mean can the Apple route the connection to non-Apple machines? Yes - its just TCP/IP.
dave17
Member

Registered: 3rd Sep 02
Location: Greater London
User status: Offline
17th Feb 05 at 16:51   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

Ian - this basestation thing is wireless tho, so done see why you would need option 1.

option 2 is what hel prob wana do. but the base station will ACT as the router though? as it is basically a wireless router.

but the problem with this is will any 802.11G card for the Dell be compatible with the Apple BaseStation?
dave17
Member

Registered: 3rd Sep 02
Location: Greater London
User status: Offline
17th Feb 05 at 16:52   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

all of this needs to be wireless though, dnt see how ur gona emit a connection FROM the powerbook and to the Dell.

 
New Topic

New Poll

  Related Threads Author Forum Replies Views Last Post
Laptop question leeshez Geek Day 2 1242
22nd Jun 04 at 06:48
by leeshez
 
Computer Help leeshez Geek Day 11 1513
5th Jul 04 at 09:32
by daman2k
 
home wireless network koolkorsa Geek Day 11 1695
2nd Sep 04 at 16:12
by Joff
 
Wireless networking Jgrant1285 Geek Day 3 1780
22nd Nov 04 at 19:07
by Jgrant1285
 
computer people... CorsaLad Geek Day 2 2035
12th Dec 04 at 16:24
by willay
 

Corsa Sport » Message Board » Off Day » Geek Day » Connecting a Dell laptop to an Apple wireless network 28 database queries in 0.0149949 seconds