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I have just bought a MacBook Pro, my first mac and I am steadily progressing the change from PC to Mac.

My husband as just aquired a i book G3. 2 questions please. I just plugged in to the internet cable and was able to use internet via safari without problem.

We are connected to internet ntl broadband via a router.

The G3 i book does not appear to connect at all, The RAM on the i book has been upgraded from 128 by a further 256 and appears to have operating sytem 9 plus OSX. Can we use the discs that came with my macbook pro to upgrade this to tiger????

How do we connect to the internet with the ibook.


I apologise if this sounds a little mixed up but we are completely novices with Mac
Thank you

Lynda
 
Hi Lynda,

If the G3 iBook is using OS 9, it would need a driver for connecting to the modem ... or an airport card and sharing the internet connection over airport from the other mac.
With the 384 MB RAM that has, it should be able to run OS X - can you check which version of it it has again? 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4 .. ?

You can't use the discs that came with the MacBook on the iBook - as those are bound to the type of mac you got (MacBook, that particular kind you got) and even the systems are on different architecture (so PPC and intel have different OS X discs available).
 
Thanks for the reply, the system is 10.3. The system is running ok I think

Where or how do we get a driver?
 
lynd said:
I have just bought a MacBook Pro, my first mac and I am steadily progressing the change from PC to Mac.

My husband as just aquired a i book G3. 2 questions please. I just plugged in to the internet cable and was able to use internet via safari without problem.

We are connected to internet ntl broadband via a router.

The G3 i book does not appear to connect at all, The RAM on the i book has been upgraded from 128 by a further 256 and appears to have operating sytem 9 plus OSX. Can we use the discs that came with my macbook pro to upgrade this to tiger????

How do we connect to the internet with the ibook.


I apologise if this sounds a little mixed up but we are completely novices with Mac
Thank you

Lynda
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This might seem silly, but have you verified what the network settings are? (Apple Menu=>System Preferences=>Network | Show Built-in Ethernet). Since it sounds like this was a second hand machine, it might be manually configured for a different network setup. Swich it to Configure Using DHCP, if so. (at least it sounds like your network at home is using DHCP).
 
Thank you very much, all connected now and in working order, think it must have been the DHCP configure thing.

I will no doubt be back with lots of other Mac questions!

lynda
 
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