Snow ABS + OS9 + OSX = work?

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.
Thanks

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 upgraded software for my MacBook from Snow Leopard to OSX Lion. Now my Office for Mac applications would not work. Can anybody help? Thanks
Quite seriously, though, if you wish to use MS Office to it's full potential and if you depend on it on a regular basis, then upgrading to Office 2011 is the only reccommended way to go. You can use the free Apps mentioned, learn to use iWorks (which I love, but others don't) or make your system a shambles and lose your easy to use interface by the other method. Deduct the cost of Parallels from MS Office and it becomes pretty cheap, if that is the only PPC program you wish to use, which is the norm as PPC is long gone from development.
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Has anyone had success using OS9 within the newest Tiger? I have a favorite app that requires OS9 to work and the instructions in my Mac are vague about how to install the old operating system to have it work within OSX.
I recently did a complete wipe of my hard drive and installed the latest Tiger OS. I created two partitions for the hard drive. I used the single disc OS9 install CD (the one that came with my Powerbook a few years ago) and successfully went through the install process using the second partition, the one that OSX is not on. The OS9 system folder does appear in the partition list of items.
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John

John, try this:
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4) Back in Classic preferences, select the "Advanced" tab. Click the "Rebuild Desktop" button. Select the volume from step 1 & Click "Rebuild." (This step is just for good measure & not strictly necessary.)
5) In the top section labeled "Startup and other options" make sure "Turn off extensions" is selected, then click the "Start Classic" button next to it. (This is the most important step.)
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When I set the AirPort Express to do WPA we lost roaming, even though we still have the same Network Name and Password on both.
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Can't find anything about this on Apple Support or via Google.
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- Winston

The solution is to use WEP on both base stations.
Why do you need to run WPA on one network and WEP on the other, why don't you run WEP on both?
It can't be a security issue as your network is as secure as the lowest denomnator, therefore the weakest part of the network is the WEP, it doesn't matter if you run WPA, you can not improve the security on your network, even if you had two separate wireless networks with two SSIDs, if one is WEP encrypted.
Say the base stations had different network names
(SSIDs), and one had WEP and the other WPA. If I was
using one, then put my iBook to sleep, then moved to
the second ABS, my iBook should pick up the second
ABS when I wake it up.
Yes
Why can AirPort change from one known network to
another when it sleeps, then awakes in a different
place, can roam between two networks with the same
SSID, password, and encryption, but cannot roam
between networks with the same name, password but
different encryption?
When you have a roaming network you are not running two networks, but are running a single network with two nodes.
1. Can I use the same SSID and password for the ABS's
with different encryption (one WEP, one WPA) and
switch between them manually?
No
2. Or should I use different SSID's and switch
manually?
No just use WEP on both base stations, or upgrade the Snow ABS to an AEBS or AX so you can use WPA on your wireless network.
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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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Have you thought about using a newer Airport Express for what you want to do?
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Greetings: I have just acquired an older mini mac (2006 1.66 ghz core 2 duo) Anyway, it had Tiger 10.4 on it and the Bluetooth worked. I upgraded to Snow Leopard and everything works fine - except Bluetooth. The Bluetooth icon isn't there. Any ideas?

Greetings:
I have just acquired an older mini mac (2006 1.66 ghz core 2 duo) Anyway, it had Tiger 10.4 on it and the Bluetooth worked for the wireless Apple keyboard and mouse. I upgraded to Snow Leopard and everything works fine - everything except Bluetooth.
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Under Finder, Utilities, I found Bluetooth File Exchange but the message I got was that I had to connect a Bluetooth device to my computer.
I have to admit that I have no idea what's going on here. I am hoping to avert the need to try another complete re-install of Snow Leopard.
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javaminit

Puzzled is a polite word for it.
Thanks Barry - I found the file and trie to send it to trash. The response: (This item cannot be trashed as it it owned by the system).
After dancing around with PRAM and SMC and turning on while holding the power-cntrl-option-shift and heavens knows what else, I now have the Bluetooth symbol on the top of the menu bar but it is ghoseted and has a squiggly line through it. This, I didn't have before so I read this as some progress. It notes that "Bluetooth is not available">
However, the Bluetooth icon is still missing from the System Preferences window - you know, between "network" and "sharing".
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If I could delete Bluetooth from the system and re-install a fresh version, that might help. Or, is there a way I can use the Snow Leopard install disc and only load in Bluetooth?
I'm stumped.
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/Bill C.

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It may be my Snow(dual) ABS has had it. I've lost all airport connections. I can still connect to the internet from the base computer (which is connected to the Snow ABS) but no other computers can connect to the airport. The airport bars are grayed out and no network can be identified. I have done both soft and hard ABS resets so no avail, re-loaded the ABS software, etc.
Any help would be appreciated before I have to break down and but an Airport extreme.

Hello adharris. Welcome to the Apple Discussions!
Unfortunately, based on your description, it does sound like the AirPort card inside the ABS has failed. Considering it only operated in the 802.11b radio mode and had WEP security, you may be better served with either a new AirPort Extreme or another vendor's product.

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Mac Pro (Early 2008 or newer)
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Try using b mode only and see if that makes a difference.
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Snow ABS + OS9 + OSX = work?

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