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Can I get some help from the Freeper Mac contingent?

1 posted on 09/05/2007 7:44:44 PM PDT by perfect stranger

To: Blue Highway

2 posted on 09/05/2007 7:45:31 PM PDT by perfect stranger

To: perfect stranger

Direct connect your mac into your router using a network cable, go to the website for the manufacturer of your wireless network USB dongle, look to see if they have any Mac drivers for it.

3 posted on 09/05/2007 7:49:30 PM PDT by kingu (No, I don't use sarcasm tags - it confuses people.)

To: perfect stranger

What operating system are you using on your MAC?

4 posted on 09/05/2007 7:51:09 PM PDT by Cindy

5 posted on 09/05/2007 7:51:32 PM PDT by Cindy

To: perfect stranger

You’re kidding...right?

17 posted on 09/05/2007 8:02:21 PM PDT by BreezyDog

To: perfect stranger

What am I missing?..........A computer?.....

24 posted on 09/05/2007 8:09:43 PM PDT by Red Badger (ALL that CARBON in ALL that oil & coal was once in the atmospere. We're just putting it back!)

To: perfect stranger

You have to set up your wireless network on Mac and type the $ sign before your network encryption key. After that you should be online. It works for me!

25 posted on 09/05/2007 8:11:23 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)

To: perfect stranger

Does it have Firewire ports on it?

31 posted on 09/05/2007 8:17:07 PM PDT by rlmorel (Liberals: If the Truth would help them, they would use it.)

To: perfect stranger

Looks like your mac is doing about the same as what ours is doing at work, acting as an expensive doorstop because we couldn’t get it networked.

Hope you kept your PC handy.

36 posted on 09/05/2007 8:25:18 PM PDT by Kevmo (We should withdraw from Iraq — via Tehran. And Duncan Hunter is just the man to get that job done.)

To: perfect stranger

You never should have bought a Mac in the first place. Canned Spam.

53 posted on 09/05/2007 9:25:04 PM PDT by Porterville (I'm an American. If you hate Americans, I hope our enemies destroy you. I will pray for my soul.)

To: perfect stranger

You’ve got a Mac...but it’s an old - like 7 years I’m guessing - old Mac. The screen you’ve got is the old Mac OS, not X. It would help to know the hardware specs on it (speed, memory, hard disk size) to know where you should go from here.

59 posted on 09/05/2007 11:26:16 PM PDT by Old_Mil (Rudy = Hillary, Fred = Dole, Romney = Kerry, McCain = Crazy. No Thanks.)

To: perfect stranger

You bought a *very* old Mac that’s running Mac OS 9. You need to upgrade it to Mac OS X ASAP (mostly because drivers for the now 8 year old version of software you have are going to be hard to find.)

60 posted on 09/06/2007 1:19:38 AM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)

To: perfect stranger

Perfect, Your Mac is about as minimal as you can get to run OSX. I would not install anything but OSX.3 Panther on that model. Even that will be very slow on a 333MHz iMac. I don't recommend installing OSX on anything less than a 450MHz Mac.

Here is the data on that particular iMac:

Fruit flavored 333MHz iMacs.

According to the website above, OSX 10.3.9 (Panther) is the most up-to-date OS you can install on this machine.

On October 5th, your iMac will be at least 8 years old. That's when it was discontinued.

You'll have to find a CD install set of OSX.3 to install it on this particular iMac because I think that model only has a CD-ROM reader. If you want to keep OS9, you can purchase and install this:

WIFI solution for older non-airport ready Macs.

and that should solve your wireless problem. Keep in mind that the USB WIFI dongle sells for more than the value of your iMac.

If you stay with OS9.2, you will be limited to using Internet Explorer 5 for Mac or Netscape Navigator 7 and many of the more modern things on the internet will probably not display correctly because those are antique browsers. If you upgrade to Panther, you can use Safari and most of the internet will work fine.

I hope this helps.

62 posted on 09/06/2007 5:23:55 PM PDT by Swordmaker (Remember, the proper pronunciation of IE is "AAAAIIIIIEEEEEEE)

To: perfect stranger

OK. I have a Mac- now what?

87 posted on 09/12/2007 6:21:48 PM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (NYT Headline: Protocols of the Learned Elders of CBS: Fake but Accurate, Experts Say)

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