[horrorbiz]

At my house I have dsl running through a pc with a wireless router hooked up to it. My ibook has an airport card and I have no problem connecting to the internet with it. I also have an emac that I have upgraded that I use as my main work computer, however it does not have an airport card so I cannot connect to the internet with it. Is there a way that I can connect it through my ibook maybe through ethernet? Can I just network them together? Any help would be much appreciated.

[Thorin]

My housemate's used his powerbook to get a PC online like this. Wireless router --wireless--> powerbook (or in your case ibook) --ethernet--> PC (or in your case eMac).

He just used a standard ethernet cable to do this, not a crossover cable.

You may have to use a bit of poetic license with these instructions, and I'm using OS X 10.3.3, so it may be different for other OS versions. Plug the ethernet cable into your ibook and your emac, then go into system preferences on the ibook. Go to sharing, then go to the internet tab. Select, "Share your connection from: Airport", and then To computers using: "Built-in Ethernet". Then click Start.

On the Emac go to System Preferences -> Network, and select Built-in Ethernet. I think it will work using DHCP. That's about it I think. You might have to play with it a bit to get it working properly. Good luck!

[horrorbiz]

Thanks so much, it worked beautifully so far!

[Thorin]

Glad I could be of some help! The only thing we found with my housemate's 12" powerbook, is that it got very hot while it was sharing the network connection. You might not find that with your ibook though!

[msuper69]

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