iMac G5 on WiFi
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I think I sometimes  wrote here that I have had no  luck with the Apple
Airport cards.  I ordered such  thing several times but  never received
one. So I gave up. It is not a problem for most of my Apple machines as
the PowerBook has such card from  the beginning, the PowerCD don't need
one and the Power Macintosh 6100 cannot accept one.

The only victim  was the iMac G5. It  is located in a room  where is no
wired Ethernet  but in reach  on WiFi signal.  So  the only way  to get
data in was use of USB drives.

After  reading about  the Plan9/9front  on the  MNT Reform  [1] I  have
learned that there  are Witi-to-Ethernet adapters that migh  work. So I
have ordered one.

Actually, I  have no idea  how/if it will work  with my Reform.  But it
works well  with the iMac! The  TenFourFox is still here  (not the last
version, I think) and  if work well. Browsing seemed to me  to be a bit
sluggish so I take  a look to system specs. Does it have  one or two GB
of RAM? I have upgraded the ram some years ago so how big it is?

It's 768  MB. Just the  same size as  my SGI O2  has. Once it  was huge
amount but now it's now not enough to open several browser tabs..

Anyway, my iMac is on-line!


References:

[1] http://plan9.stanleylieber.com/hardware/mnt/reform/

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