How to connect iBook to my BSD network

[Jonathon McKitrick]

On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 08:15:26AM +0100, Dick Davies wrote:
: * Jonathon McKitrick <jcm at FreeBSD-uk.eu.org> [1049 04:49]:
: > 
: > Hi all,
: > 
: > I have a 4.10 desktop with a wireless hub that my laptop connects to.  It
: > works perfectly.
: 
: Hey boy - how're things? 

Great!  Wondered where you've been.  :-)  How's the little one?

: Hang on - you got a basestation? What does it plug into, the link to your ISP
: or one of your ethernet ports on the server? Or does the dhcp server connect
: through the basestation too? 

We got a base station.  It has both a modem serial jack and an ethernet
jack.  My network has a wireless hub (with wired jacks as well, of course)
connected to my desktop box.

: I'm a little confused because the BS will have its own DHCP server if I remember
: right.

Really?  Okay, I didn't know that.  I was looking at the preferences page on
the apple and trying to figure out how to set up TCP/IP.  I was under the
assumption the BS was just another hub, and I had to assign it an address.
Since you got me going with DHCPD, I tried that, but it didn't work.  Are
you suggesting all I need to do is patch the BS to my hub and set the laptop
to get the DHCP address itself?  If so, how do I get my desktop box to
recognize the BS?


jm
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