I’ve always been slightly bemused by the existence of networking over Firewire; on the surface it seems like such a minor corner-case. Well, I’m now very happy it exists…
…on Friday a storm came through and caused two things: the frying of the ethernet port on my rapidly aging PowerMac G4 and the frying of the ADSL part of my wireless modem router. Thanks to Kerry and David, I was able to borrow a replacement ADSL modem but this didn’t help my Mac, only Mary Anne’s PC (no small thing :-).
Last night, however, as I was entering severe podcast withdrawal, I recalled “networking over Firewire” and a glimmer of hope ignited in my mind. Next step, get out my work MacBook, plug it into the (non-wireless) router and grab a Firewire cable. Connect the MacBook and G4 with the Firewire cable, open up Networking in System Preferences on both machines and enable Firewire networking. Next, switch over to Sharing on the MacBook’s System Preferences, select Internet and click start (after first observing that sharing is from Ethernet to Built-in Firewire Port). Final step, disable the MacBook’s firewall and then fire up iTunes on the G4 — success and a large backlog of podcasts to enjoy!
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[...] A while back I lost wireless access in the home. In a happy accident I was wandering through Harvey Norman at Indooroopilly today when I noticed they were selling Linksys WAG54GP2s for $93.01 – that’s ADSL2+, 802.11G, and VOIP in the one (discontinued) box at a very sweet price (hurry – they only have two left). [...]
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