By Mark Crane (Mecran01) on Monday, February 23, 2004 - 06:12 pm:

I'm the proud parent of a new 12" ibook, courtesy of work, and I was wondering if anyone knows of a cheap and easy way to network these to each other using their wireless cards or some sort of usb/hub configuration. I just want to transfer files at home, where I only have dialup.

By Mark Crane (Mecran01) on Monday, February 23, 2004 - 06:12 pm:

p.s. I have a usb 2.0/firewire external hd, and it loads the drivers into the thinkpad, but the drive doesn't show up under "my computer". Otherwise I'd use the drive.

By John Massaglia (Mrklaw) on Tuesday, February 24, 2004 - 12:34 pm:

If you ibook has Mac OS X, then you should be able to turn on windows networking and map drives from one machine to the other.

If you don't have a wifi access point or router, then you will have to set both of the wireless cards to ad hoc mode. This allows them to connect to each other directly instead of through an access point.

By Mark Crane (Mecran01) on Tuesday, February 24, 2004 - 10:00 pm:

I wussed out and just burned cds off of the thinkpad, that way I've got a backup archive. It was only about 3 gigs of data and 1 gig of tunes. I came across some advice that suggested that only the Ibook (running 10.3, thankyouverymuch) should be in ad hoc mode, but moot point because I gave the spare orinoco card to my boss to try in her 17" asian basketball player powerbook.

By Mark Crane (Mecran01) on Thursday, March 18, 2004 - 08:41 pm:

I found out later while helping a colleague that the ibook and thinkpad show up in each other's network neighborhood if plugged into the same subnet. Doh!