WiFi with Airport Internet Sharing, No lomger works for Airport > 3.4.1 Options

[ralphrmartin]

Using MacOS X 10.3.x, I used to be able to share my internet connection from Ethernet to Airport (using WEP security), and using a WiFi card in my Zaurus c860, I was able to get onto the net.

This all worked fine up until Aiport 3.4.2 and later. With these later versions, it seems Apple changed from "Open System" to "Shared Key", and I can no longer get access.

(I know the Zaurus is OK because I also used the same setup to connect using a wireless Draytek router, and that still all works fine, unchanged.)

Has anyone had any success connecting a Zaurus to the net through Apple's Internet Sharing with Aiport 3.4.2 or later? If so, I'd be grateful if you would tell us all how!

[eji]

I can't get Opera to connect to the Web. It's the oddest thing. As I mentioned in my earlier post, it looks up the host name, connects to the host, and then it hangs on "Sending request to www.XYZ.com"

I've tried about fifty different WiFi settings combinations both on the Z and the Mac (proxies, DHCP, auto/manual IP assignation, auto/manual DNS), but none work. E-mail, GAIM and package feeds are all receiving and transmitting just fine.

What I find even stranger is that I was surfing a few days ago using the preinstalled Opera on the Z and then the newer multimodal version (7.55) from IBM. The connection was finicky and sometimes took a few attempts before the page loaded, but it worked. Now I can't surf at all. Any chance it has anything to do with a dynamic IP?

I had disabled the WEP key, but maybe I'll reinstate it to see if I have better luck. If you can think of any reason why this might be happening, I'd love to know.