PowerBook 3400c Wireless Network Sees DSL Modem, Can't connect

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PowerBook 3400c Wireless Network Sees DSL Modem, Can't connect

I have a 20 gig hard drive with three partitions, the main System partition crashed (unrecoverable with TechTool or Norton) so I have stopped using it on a regular basis, the Alt System partition and Data partion are fine. Now we have DSL with a wireless modem and 4 port ethernet switch. So I am trying to network the Powerbook to recover many years of data (on the Data partition thankfully!) but no connection.

This one has got me baffled. I tried mightily to get ethernet working to no avail (I have never used it in my 5 years of companionship with this machine. So I assume it is dead (doesn't even recognize it has a combo modem/ethernet card though the modem works fine).

So I am trying to use my WaveLan 802.11 PC card. The WaveLan driver crashes with a 1,010 error so I used the Orinoco driver I also had (basically the same card). Is sees the DSL modem, shows signal, and it shows up on all the utilities I have but it won't connect even when I just try to connect to the modem (http://192.168.0.1). Any ideas? I don't have it on at the moment and am using the wife's Pentium 333 to type this (It takes about 10 minutes to start up from the Alt System partition).

Should I install the Airport software too?

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Let's see...

If you're using DHCP to set your IP, don't.
If you aren't and are manually setting your IP, try DHCP.
Set User Mode to Advanced and make sure that TCP/IP is always running.

Which OS is it, 8.6-9.x?

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Figured it out

I just had to turn off encryption on the DSL modem/ LAN switch and it works!

Now, though, anytime I try to access the modem through its setup page it resets! (Power light turns from green to red, all lights go off and it takes about five minutes to reboot) I don't know what I did, that is the only thing I changed!

I would like to turn encryption back on and see if I can get it to a setting that will work with my WaveLAN Silver (64 bit encryption) card.

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You'll have to turn the encry

You'll have to turn the encryption on the router down to match the Silver card. It would be a small deterrent but now-a-days breaking the old WEP encryption is not hard.

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Now it won't share, naughty child!

Has it been a month since I did this? Time sure flies when you spend all your time trying to keep a PC running!

For some reason sharing won't work on the 3400. I tried everything I could think of including re-setting the PRAM and a reinstall of OS 9.1. I wonder if it has something to do with a dead PRAM battery? When I took it out of the closet after six months the date was 1972 or something. Now that I have it plugged in all the time the date is fine but I think this may have something to do with the sharing problem (Why? I don't know, it just seemed reasonable...)

I have PC MacLan on the PC and neither can see each other.

Problem is the new PRAM battery at about $40.00 is worth twice what the 3400 is worth! (if ebay prices are the norm). I would rather not worry about replacing the battery if that is not the problem. I gave up on it a couple of weeks ago and was thinking of zipping the 15 gigs of files into 300MB chunks and using YouSendIt or something, though that will be a lot of work too.

Any ideas on sharing?

After all this is done I think I would like to replace it with a 17" PowerBook (like I'll ever be able to afford that!) and convert the 3400 into a digital photo frame (great screen, plenty of disk space and wireless connection to the network -someday- for updates).

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