Snow ABS as wired external modem?

My Aunt bought has need of an external modem for her new modem-less Mac Mini (her broadband options are not working out).
I have an opportunity to get an old Snow ABS that I figured I could connect via Ethernet. It has had its wireless card removed however and I'm not sure if this renders the whole unit inoperative or not.
Does anyone know if the modem would still function without the card in the base station?

Why don't you try using it? I hope it does work. It should since it is a wired router as well as a wireless.

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I have an Airport Extreme 802.11n simultaneous dual-band base station with a USB disk plugged into the back through a hub. It's connected to my network that comes from my 802.11b/g Airport Extreme Snow "saucer" model that I have to have because I can't get DSL/cable where I live, so I use the built-in modem to access the internet.
Can I add the USB External modem to the newer Extreme and still access the internet through it, or is that basically a lost cause? I'd like to move to the new one because 'n' would be faster to do my time machine backups.

The USB cellular modem you are referring to would be a device like this:
http://www.cradlepoint.com/products/cba250-cellular-broadband-adapter
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Hello. I've followed the tech document http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=58613 on resetting my Snow ABS, but I can't seem to do it. I don't get the amber lights as stated in #4 (in the document). Any suggestions on how to reset it beyond it?
I need to reset it because I'm troubleshooting my connection. Please see my post, "Configuring Snow ABS with Cable Modem" and pitch in there if you can!
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I am trying to assist my family by eliminating a possible problematic router. Currently they have their cable, comcast, going into a Belkin router then branching off to a G3 running OS9 and to a Snow ABS. The ABS signal is then being picked up by an iMac running OSX. My question is this, could the G3 be plugged into the LAN port on the ABS, eliminating the Belkin and directing the comcast connection directly to the ABS? I don't want to complicate things for them because I can not physically be there, doing this by phone and email, so the more I know ahead of time the better. I do believe that I had looked into this before and for some reason I never went through with the idea.
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Turn off the cable modem. This is required so that the cable modem will forget what device it was talking to and discover a new device to talk to.
Then connect the cable modem to the WAN port of the snow ABS.
It doesn't matter if the Macs are running OS X or OS 9. It doesn't matter which Mac is used to configure the snow ABS.

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I have two external modems that I have been trying to connect to my powerbook (one OR the other, not both simultaneously, but since NEITHER work...)
- One is a regular DSL USB modem, which I had no trouble getting to work on my previous Powerbook (OS X 10.3). However the OS X 10.4 will not recognize the modem, even after I have installed the appropriate software.
- The other is a NETGEAR ADSL ROUTER with MODEM which can be connected either through Ethernet or WiFi. There too, i am unable to connect it. For that matter, I am also unable to open the "install" file on the CD that is provided; the Mac will not read it. I have thus downloaded the driver from the Netgear website, but that has not solved my problem.
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First lets start with the USB ADSL Modem.
They have shown that they are very unreliable at best, They seem to be what most of the European ISP's offer. This is not to say they don't and won't work they just leave much to the imagination as far as the present technology is concerned.
Now your Netgear ADSL Modem Router.
First go to your Apple and then to System Preferences and when it opens Go to Network, Choose your method of connection Airport for wireless and Ethernet for using Cable or Cat 5 or 6 connection, click on your choice and the green light will come on and drag your choice to the top of the list.
Next, there is also a SHARING option under System Preferences as well click on it and at the top there are three boxes, SERVICES..FIREWALL.. INTERNET
go through each of these and choose your options, give special attention to the INTERNET option, Be sure that you have the correct option from which you share your connection from, either Airport for wireless and Ethernet for hard wired.
Click on Safari and when it opens you can check the paperwork that came with your Modem Router to accsess the utility for it. Normally you type in 192.168.1.1 in the browser and click the return key this will open the set-up for the Modem Browser.
You shouldn't need any special driver for this device, however there may be a firmware update for it and the paperwork with the Modem Router will direct you as to how to download it.
You may have to click on the Safari Icon and choose Preferences, this will allow you to also go through the options there to set up as well.
You may also have to plug in your Modem Router and let it establish the connection from your ISP, (Normally 3 lights) before you plug your computer in. You may also have to restart or shut your computer clear off and wait a minute or so before you restart to acquire the connection.
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Snow ABS has worked with Motorola 4100 cable modem for several years. Had a power surge the other day, but I don't know if this matters. Modem now works fine if hardwired to Powerbook ethernet port. When connected to Snow ABS, the modem drops out every 2-3 minutes. Activity light and send, receive, and online lights drop out in sequence, then struggle to come back on. This cycles repeatedly. WHen this is happening, it doesn't matter if the powerbook is on. The Snow lights keep flashing. Moving the ethernet back to the powerbook, and restarting it, will keep a solid connection for hours, whether you do anything on the machine or not. Running 10.4.2. Suggestions? Do I need to buy a new Airport?

Try Starting from scratch.
If this fails to solve the problem, I think you need to buy a new base station.

I have a 2007 Macbook Pro that is running 10.7.5 and I am trying to use a 10.6.3 DVD to install Snow Leopard to an external hard drive.

I have a 2007 Macbook Pro that is running 10.7.5 and I am trying to use a 10.6.3 DVD to install Snow Leopard to an external hard drive. I've followed every possible instruction on every which website. The problem is when I boot to Install disc, I am unable to choose which hard drive I'd like to install the OS on. It says that it is unable to Install and automatically takes me to Restore and suggests that I restore to Time Machine backups. Any and all help is appreciated.

lovinlife5959,
have you tried booting from the grey Mac OS X Install DVD that originally came in the box with your MacBook Pro? See if you can install its version of Mac OS X (either 10.4.9, 10.4.10, or 10.5.0, depending upon when it shipped from the factory) onto your external hard drive. If that works, boot from your external hard drive, run Software Update on it, and then try updating your external drive to 10.6.3 via the white Snow Leopard DVD.

HT3777 I have a Window 7 HP laptop. I want to install Snow Leopard on an external hard drive as the memory space on my laptop is very less. I have the original snow leopard disc and I think it's a retail version . Please guide me through the installation.

I have a Window 7 HP laptop. I want to install Snow Leopard on an external hard drive as the memory space on my laptop is very less. I have the original snow leopard disc and I think it's a retail version . Please guide me through the installation in details. Can you also please let me know about this boot camp.

You cannot. From a legal standpoint, the license agreement for OS X mandates that you run OS X only on Apple hardware. HP is not (yet) owned by Apple.
From a technical standpoint, your HP laptop doesn't use EFI, but rather an early predecessor called a BIOS. Apple is the only vendor of consumer computer hardware that uses EFI; other vendors reserve EFI for use in servers.
Secondly, Apple's operating systems support a rather limited number of configurations of video hardware and mainboard chipsets directly since they need only support those systems that they manufacture. You cannot use Windows software or drivers on OS X, so prior to installation, you would need to write your own hardware drivers for your laptop, create an OS X drive image on a Mac, and then modify that image with your drivers before putting it in the HP.
It will be simpler (and legal), to simply purchase a used Mac. Apple's online store has refurbished MacBook Airs starting at $850 and Mac Minis for $700. If you go to e-bay or craigslist, you'll find used Macs for considerably less.

Can I install snow leopard on an external hard drive so I can run quicken 2006, and put snow leopard on my imac harddrive

Can I install snow leopard on an external hard drive in order to run my quicken 2006, and install lion on the hard drive of my imac?

You don't need to erase the drive and repartition from scratch. You may be able to add a second partition on the fly. The caveat here is that once you do that you cannot create a Windows partition using Boot Camp. Of course if you have no plans for Boot Camp then it isn't relevant.
To create a second partition on your existing startup volume:
To resize the drive do the following:
1. Open Disk Utility and select the drive entry (mfgr.'s ID and size) from the left side list.
2. Click on the Partition tab in the DU main window. You should see the graphical sizing window showing the existing partitions. A portion may appear as a blue rectangle representing the used space on a partition.
3. In the lower right corner of the sizing rectangle for each partition is a resizing gadget. Select it with the mouse and move the bottom of the rectangle upwards until you have reduced the existing partition enough to create the desired new volume's size. The space below the resized partition will appear gray. Click on the Apply button and wait until the process has completed. (Note: You can only make a partition smaller in order to create new free space.)
4. Click on the [+] button below the sizing window to add a new partition in the gray space you freed up. Give the new volume a name, if you wish, then click on the Apply button. Wait until the process has completed.
You should now have a new volume on the drive.
It would be wise to have a backup of your current system as resizing is not necessarily free of risk for data loss. Your drive must have sufficient contiguous free space for this process to work.
Now, you cannot add a new partition that exceeds the amount of contiguous free space at the end of the drive. Disk Utility will fail to add the partition if it cannot find sufficient contiguous free space. If that's the case then you will need to follow your state outline - backup, boot from clone, erase internal, repartition internal, restore backup to one of the partitions (or both in your case.)

Snow Leopard on an external hard drive; sign-in issues, Snow Leopard on an external hard drive; sign-in issues

I have an older (circa 2006) MacBook running Tiger. I've been able to install Snow Leopard on an external hard drive and when I restart, it seems to boot from the external drive. However, it asks for a user name and password and the combination I use in Tiger doesn't work. I don't get an option for an admin user/password.
Any suggestions?

If you did a fresh installation from the original installer disk, then unless you used Migration Utility as part of the installation then you would have been stepped through the process to set up a user acount. Without that there would be no account to log into. So either you don't remember, you didn't install on an empty drive, or you used Migration Utility.
In any case, boot from the original installer, select the external drive, and under the Utilities menu choose Password Reset.
Regards.

I've installed LION. Is it possible to put Snow Leopard on an external hard drive?

I've installed LION. Is it possible to put Snow Leopard on an external hard drive?

I was unaware of this change for usb support! However Babowa makes a good point in that you would probably not want to run SL via USB and rather Firewire.
Having said that, the 13" MacBooks do not have firewire.
But again as Babowa points out, that machine wouldn't be able to run Lion anyway.

I had Leopard on may Mac. I upgraded to Mountain Lion using Snow Leopard. I can't use my video with Mountain Lion. Can I load Snow Leopard on an external hard drive so I can use it with my camera?

I had Leopard on may Mac. I upgraded to Mountain Lion using Snow Leopard. I can't use my video with Mountain Lion. Can I load Snow Leopard on an external hard drive so I can use it with my camera?

First, you cannot do this if you have a Boot Camp partition.
Second: Create a new partition.
1. Restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the COMMAND and R keys until the menu screen appears. Alternatively, restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the OPTION key until the boot manager screen appears. Select the Recovery HD and click on the downward pointing arrow button.
After the main menu appears select Disk Utility and click on the Continue button. Select the hard drive's main entry then click on the Partition tab in the DU main window.
2. You should see the graphical sizing window showing the existing partitions. A portion may appear as a blue rectangle representing the used space on a partition.
3. In the lower right corner of the sizing rectangle for each partition is a resizing gadget. Select it with the mouse and move the bottom of the rectangle upwards until you have reduced the existing partition enough to create the desired new volume's size. The space below the resized partition will appear gray. Click on the Apply button and wait until the process has completed. (Note: You can only make a partition smaller in order to create new free space.)
4. Click on the [+] button below the sizing window to add a new partition in the gray space you freed up. Give the new volume a name, if you wish, then click on the Apply button. Wait until the process has completed.
You should now have a new volume on the drive.
It would be wise to have a backup of your current system as resizing is not necessarily free of risk for data loss. Your drive must have sufficient contiguous free space for this process to work.
Third: Install Snow Leopard.
Boot from your Snow Leopard DVD. Follow instructions for installation being sure that before you actually install Snow Leopard you have selected the new partition as your target destination.
Booting From An OS X Installer Disc
1. Insert OS X Installer Disc into the optical drive.
2. Restart the computer.
3. Immediately after the chime press and hold down the "C" key.
4. Release the key when the spinning gear below the dark gray Apple logo
appears.
5. Wait for installer to finish loading.

Can I upgrade to Lion given that I currently run Snow Leopard on an external drive?

I run Snow Leopard on an external HD. If I upgrade to Lion will it install and run there successfully? My internal HD is dead.

Yes it will, in fact that was my configuartion for a while before I installed on the internal.

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I attached the external DVD and put in a Snow Leopard installer disc, holding down the C key so it would boot and install from that, but it just spun for awhile. Doesn't appear to work.
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Because with both of the Mac MInis being active on the network, they both had the same computer and user name. So I renamed the newer Mac Mini to something completely different, and changed the password.
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If anyone has any ideas about this password conundrum, please pass along!

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Friends, I am new to this OS.Plz help me that how i can configure my external modem in this OS.
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http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-0403/6mg741bt2?a=view
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