Re: [NTLK] Looking for WiFi help.

From: Cerebus <cerebus2_at_gmail.com>
Date: Mon Aug 28 2006 - 22:53:32 EDT

On 8/28/06, Sam Jacobson <jacobson98@earthlink.net> wrote:

> However I am not nearly as far along as you. How did you get the drivers from
> Hirochi's Newton/WaveLAN page (http://www.ff.iij4u.or.jp/~ngc/eng/newtwave.htm)?
> The only things that download are .sit files which i cannot get onto my Newton. As a
> note, I have Newton Internet, NIE Ethernet, NIE LocalTalk, NIE Modem & Serial, \
> Internet Setup, and Serial 230400 on my 2100.

.sit files are Stuffit compressed archives characteristic of Macs.
Free expanders for Mac and Windows can be gotten from www.stuffit.com.

> How did you get your Newton to show an Internet Setup with Lucent WaveLAN/
> IEEE? Mines shows no Lucent options. Thus, right now, my card is not recognized by
> my Newton when I plug it into the OCMCIA slot.

That's what you need Hiroshi's driver for.

> How did you discern what your SSID should be? What about WAP, how did you set
> this as I saw now option for doing so?

I know my SSID because I set up the WLAN myself. :)

WAP == Wireless Access Point.

-- Tim

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