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started 7/22/2001; 3:34:10 AM - last post 7/25/2001; 11:47:29 AM
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Doc Searls - 
7/22/2001; 7:34:10 AM (reads: 3437, responses: 4)
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Aaaah. 
| | The train didn't suck (in fact, it rocked along quite nicely). Pulled into San Diego around three, hooked up with Craig at around four; and here we are, talking deep tech trash from his hotel room high over the harbor whilst the laptop swaps bits at a (just measured) 800kbps over the Ethernet port here. Fuckin' F. |
Tock... tock... tock...
| | Well here I am, back on the Net with the Titanium. Got here by turning off everything remotely related to the Airport card. Guess there's a software conflict. Figures. |
| | It's 2:05am. I'm going to bed (feeling bad for keeping Joyce up with my cursing and snorting around while dividing flagging energies between packing and getting this machine to work). |
| | Whatever. See you in San Diego. I hope. |
Tick... tick... tick...
| | Okay, I finally made a reservation with Amtrak, although there was no way to reserve business class. Not sure why. Hope I can upgrade in the morning at the station. |
| | Now we'll see if defragging the Titanium did shit. |
Last minute screams
| | Since I want to be able to eavesdrop on whatever 802.11b wireless auras may exist in San Diego, I installed an Airport card in my Titanium today. All seemed to go well. The box recognized the card and defaulted to AppleTalk through Airport. I reset it to Ethernet and jacked into the cable modem again a few hours later. |
| | It couldn't see the Net. I checked the settings. Nothing other than the AppleTalk setting had changed, and I changed it back. Everything else seems to be working fine. But now I have no Net access, no email and no #1 phillips head screwdriver to take the card out again. At the moment I'm borrowing Joyce's G3/400 laptop, which works fine. |
| | Meanwhile, Amtrak's Web site is down for maintenance, so I can't make a reservation, which I put off because I don't know exactly when I'll be returning. |
| | Right now (1:37am) the Titanium is going through the full Norton routine. Disk First Aid found nothing wrong. Now I'm debragging the drive, which it probably doesn't need, but my tech guy always insists should be done. |
| | So much for ease of use, no? |
| | I love computing, but sometimes it really sucks. Especially when you need it most. I'll be pretty fucked this week if this thing can't get on the Net. |
| | The train leaves in 6 hours. Hope I can get on it. |
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Glenn Fleishman - Re: AirPort
7/22/2001; 10:58:44 PM (reads: 630, responses: 3)
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You might need to delete all AirPort stuff, not just put it in the disabled folders for extensions and control panels, then do a full reinstall of the software. I've heard of some problems where some AirPort components are disabled. Yes, this is why we love the Mac.
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Doc Searls - Re: AirPort
7/24/2001; 5:48:47 AM (reads: 755, responses: 2)
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I did exactly that (good advice). But the result is the same. With all the Airport extentions active, no other kind of networking can be done, even with Airport turned off. Pisser.
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Glenn Fleishman - Re: AirPort
7/25/2001; 1:01:53 AM (reads: 905, responses: 1)
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So what did Tim O'Reilly tell you to do? Inquiring Mac columnist want to know.
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Doc Searls - Re: AirPort
7/25/2001; 3:47:29 PM (reads: 1158, responses: 0)
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It turns out I was getting on and out anyway, and didn't know it. Tim pointed out that I needed to click on the network/server called 'tsunami' on the airport pop-up menu in the control strip. What threw me off there was that I coincidentally have a network server *also* called 'tsunami' back at my office. I thought it was a phantom of a prior setting.
Also confusing: the network *really was* down some of the time, and in some of the places inside the hotel I was picking up a *different* 802.11b signal that belonged to the hotel and required authentication via the browser window to which all my browsing got redirected. But after awhile opening new windows bypassed that one and I was able to connect anyway.
FWIW, I still need to disable all the airport extensions to make ethernet or dial-up work at the other hotel. That's where I am now. PITA, it is.
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