There is nothing unusual here. You only get the MOTD (message of the day..Welcome to Darwin) if you connect via ssh or telnet. If you just open a terminal window in OS X you will not see this. It is a message for remote users only.
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There is an app called broadband optimizer available from www.versiontracker.com in their OS X section. All it does is use a shell script to tweak your settings at bootup time. The commands in the script can be tweaked at any time via the command line. In general freebsd networking should be...
the @home network is currently "restructuring" i.e. going bankrupt
I'll bet your outages are releated to a sysadmin being laid off/leaving for greener pastures
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see http://www.home.net/restructuring/
I suggest you take a re-look at fink.
They have a package installer available now that will do most of the dirty work for you. Once you have that installed, learn to use dselect (just type dselect at the command line). You will have a functioning version of xwindows up and running in no time...
Move your image capture app directly to the Applications directory
try connecting without the external power connected
reformat your CF or microdrive
One (or all) of these should work
Here I am replying to my own question ;-)
I finally got it to work, I needed to use the flat_namespace fix (see stepwise) and I had to edit the Makefile in apache_1.3.20/src/modules/ssl
to remove libgcc and lgcc to get it to compile.
Everything works great now.
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Very interesting, please report this to apple feedback. I suspect you have found a major bug and will need to partition your drive and install OS X on the first <8gig partition.
To manually install the driver find the file WirelessDriver.kext in the finder. Open a terminal window and type...
Try using the card in the upper PCMCIA card slot on your wallstreet, see if that works.
Do the lights blink on your card? If they do, the driver is installed correctly. You need to open the network preferences pane to select and configure the EN1 ethernet interface for the driver to work...