How resume Airport Base Station under YDL4 only?

[Daniel Gimpelevich]

Are you trying to connect the iBook to the wired router via Ethernet? If
so, the sungem driver should work (I assume it's one of the white iBooks).
Resetting a Base Station actually erases the device's firmware. After
that, it must be connected via (crossover) Ethernet to a computer whose IP
address is 192.42.249.15 and whose gateway is 192.42.249.13, which can run
the following: http://edge.mcs.drexel.edu/GICL/people/sevy/airport/
You must obtain the firmware for your model from the link on that page,
and re-upload it to the Base Station, after which "public" will become the
password. The process will take some trial-and-error, but once you
configure the thing the way you want, you can reconfigure from any machine
on your network.

On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 12:20:05 -0500, beartooth wrote:

> I've just replaced my wireless router with a wired one. My wife has been
> connecting her G3 iBook, which has only YDL4 installed (no OSX, no nuthin'
> from Apple), by way of the antenna on the old router.
> 
> I dug out the old Airport Base Station that we used to use, and stuck the
> ethernet cable to her desktop PC downstairs into it, and then another
> cable from it to the desktop.
> 
> This is half a triumph, so far : the desktop PC still works just fine. But
> the iBook does not succeed in bringing up eth0 -- and I've long since
> forgotten what name and password I gave it way back when, even if those
> are still on there. (It has sat without power nor any connection for a
> couple of years or so.)
> 
> I suppose I poke a paper clip into the little hole in the back to reset
> it?
> 
> But then what? I configure a regular router (over a cable, not the
> wireless, of course) by browsing to http://192.168.1.1 ; but if I go hook
> the iBook instead of the PC to the cable from the Base Station, doing that
> is going to take me to the new wired router -- if anywhere -- isn't it?