[OPLINTECH] Macs, PSPs and Wi-Fi

[Dan Will]

Karen,
   Each laptop that comes in may have previous ip configuration done to
it before it came through the door. they need to be set to dhcp or they
won't get the correct addressing. I've run into that several times here
at Meigs. Our patrons generally do not know anything about addressing
and just had some friend set them up on their (the friend's) network. So
of course it doesn't work here.  ;P. You need to run mac's version of
ifconfig (ipconfig in Windows) to see what address information that your
router is handing out. If everything looks okay then, it should work. I
have had some problems here with our proxy and some laptops
(mac/linux/windows) where the proxy address & port needs to be added to
their browser. Strange since I have it set to transparent but, there you
go. So I suppose that could be a problem as well.

-- 
Dan Will
Technology Supervisor
Meigs County District Public Library
Pomeroy, Ohio 45769
740.992.5813
740.992.6140 (fax)
willda at oplin.org

The difference between fiction and reality?
Fiction has to make sense.
Tom Clancy



On Tue, 2008-02-05 at 15:13 -0500, Karen Perone wrote:
> We just introduced public Wi-Fi at our library and if you have a PC 
> laptop, you can surf with the pros. However, there seems to be some kind 
> of issue with Mac books and other devices like PSPs (which I didn't even 
> know had Internet capability).
> 
> We are an open network with no WEP and are using DHCP. For those of you 
> with similar setups, are there firewall issues that seem to be different 
> for Macs? Do they require a different port to be open for access to the 
> outside world?
> 
> They seem to be able to attach to the network (full compliment of bars) 
> but fail when trying to get an IP from the router. Thus, they can't get 
> to the Internet.
> 
> Any thoughts?