HOT4ME: SMC2670W ETHERNET TO WIRELESS BRIDGE 802.11b

[msulazy]

Anyone out there know ANYTHING about connecting a mac to a wireless network? Conventional wisdom would tell me that this box is pretty foolproof if a PS2 can figure it out without configuration. Yet for some reason a mac won't do that. Leaving my personal views of mac's at the door (it's the GF's mac, she wants the internet on there), does anyone know if there's a network/tcp/ip/dhcp/etc setting that I need to enter for her mac to get it to read this WAP? I did put a WEP key on the box, but again, it works fine on my PS2, I'm just curious why the mac seems less intelligent than a video game console. Unless I'm missing something on ethernet connections, I thought they were pretty universal, and this box should take the cable modem signal from the router, convert it to ethernet, and we should be off. Insight would be tremendous here if someone has it. I realize I should head to another forum for this question now that I'm done typing, but since I have a few people on here that seem to know wireless, I thought I'd ask.

 

[lmanc]

Originally posted by: Braxus
Actually it looks like it can. I believe the Belkin util/firmware only supports point to point. But if you update the firmware with the amtel generic one (1.4j1 iirc) and use the amtel snmp util, you can set it up as a access point client (it asks for the SSID).

I have yet to try it but it does look like it'll work. I'll do it over the weekend and then post a heads up.

I know this post has been around for a while now but I know a lot of you went in on the Belkin deals a while back. Has anyone been able to get their AP to work as a bridge to connect to another wireless router? Can you please post how you were able to do it?

Thanks!