Airport Card / Belkin Wireless Router

[Gerry Scott-Moore]

Installed a airport card (with adaptor) into an IMac G3. Installed the
sofware.

Replace my LinkSys router with the Belkin Wireless router, hooked up my
G4, PC and printer. All work fine.

When attempting to connect the IMac G3, I get no hits when I run the
Airport Assistant: it's first order of business is to "scan" for a base
station. It finds none.

With Belkin technoid on line I moved the Belkin unit to the room with
the IMac, sat it down next to it and the IMac still couldn't "scan" to
find it. The Belkin persons next item to read me was the that Belkin
was defective or the Airport card was mis-installed.

Called Apple. There they said that if the software was operable, and
the "little baseball field" was appearing at the top, then it was
installed correctly.

Any advice?

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[Neill Massello]

Gerry Scott-Moore <222ggg@adelphia.net.invalid> wrote:

> When attempting to connect the IMac G3, I get no hits when I run the
> Airport Assistant: it's first order of business is to "scan" for a base
> station. It finds none.

Because you don't have one. You have a Belkin wireless router, not an
Apple AirPort Base Station. Apple's software will only configure an
Apple base station. What you need to do is set up your ~computer~ to
join an existing wireless network, using either the AirPort Setup
Assistant or the system network preferences.

To configure the router, follow the directions in the Belkin manual. If
you don't have a manual, you can download one from
<http://www.belkin.com>. Configuring the Belkin router will probably
involve connecting it to your iMac with an Ethernet cable and using your
web browser to "go to" the router's built-in web page using its numeric
IP address, probably 192.168.2.1.

Two suggestions:

(1) A better newsgroup for this question would have been
comp.sys.mac.comm.

(2) When asking for help, it is best to give the model number of the
relevant hardware and the version number of the relevant software
(application ~and~ operating system).

[Gerry Scott-Moore]

In article <1fycl7c.1vm3youj50dq0N%nmassello@earthlink.net> , Neill
Massello <nmassello@earthlink.net> wrote:

> > When attempting to connect the IMac G3, I get no hits when I run the
> > Airport Assistant: it's first order of business is to "scan" for a base
> > station. It finds none.

>
> Because you don't have one. You have a Belkin wireless router, not an
> Apple AirPort Base Station. Apple's software will only configure an
> Apple base station. What you need to do is set up your ~computer~ to
> join an existing wireless network, using either the AirPort Setup
> Assistant or the system network preferences.

Bad nomenclature. It scans for a "network". That would be the Belkin
item. I'm doing that via Airport Setup Assistant as you indicated.

> To configure the router, follow the directions in the Belkin manual. If
> you don't have a manual, you can download one from
> <http://www.belkin.com>. Configuring the Belkin router will probably
> involve connecting it to your iMac with an Ethernet cable and using your
> web browser to "go to" the router's built-in web page using its numeric
> IP address, probably 192.168.2.1.

That's pretty much what the Belkin online tech did with me with no
success.

> Two suggestions:
>
> (1) A better newsgroup for this question would have been
> comp.sys.mac.comm.
>
> (2) When asking for help, it is best to give the model number of the
> relevant hardware and the version number of the relevant software
> (application ~and~ operating system).

Thanks for taking time to respond so completely.

On advice from the Belkin tech-head I replaced the unit at MicroCenter.
Simply swapped it out, brought it home, hooked it up and as I expected
it didn't work.

I opened up the IMac pulled the card made sure the antennae was firmly
attached. It came out of the card as I removed it, so how firmly it
was attached is debatable. I firmly attached it anew, and reinserted
the card.

Turned it on, ran airport set-up assistant, all is well.

The problem, for others who may bump in to this thread, was apparently
that the antennae was not fully attached to the card in the IMac.

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