Frustrated post-stroke quasi-retired systems engineer here; once upon a time I was the lead hardware tech for a community college. Oh, how the mighty has fallen. :/
At the moment I've got the laptop up and running as a gateway, hard wired into the DSL modem. The wireless in said laptop is currently running as an AP... the G3 Mac and the now dead Hutch are plugged into the DLink AP. A kludge, but a working one. Originally Hutch was the gateway, with the internal NIC wired to the Synoptics switch, with the G3 and Laptop flowing in from the outside. It took a bit of fiddling but seems to be working relatively well at the moment.
The original drive is crashed; now when it's powered you can -hear- the grind from inside it. *shudder* I got most of the essentials off of it, at least. I located a spare drive, installed it, and was crushed when it refused to power up at all. A much newer Western Digital 80gb unit was scored this morning, so now the reinstall can proceed.
I really am going crazy here. Good practice, though, and it makes me -think-, which can't help but be a good thing, right?
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Date: 2008-05-27 12:29 pm (UTC)At the moment I've got the laptop up and running as a gateway, hard wired into the DSL modem. The wireless in said laptop is currently running as an AP... the G3 Mac and the now dead Hutch are plugged into the DLink AP. A kludge, but a working one. Originally Hutch was the gateway, with the internal NIC wired to the Synoptics switch, with the G3 and Laptop flowing in from the outside. It took a bit of fiddling but seems to be working relatively well at the moment.
The original drive is crashed; now when it's powered you can -hear- the grind from inside it. *shudder* I got most of the essentials off of it, at least. I located a spare drive, installed it, and was crushed when it refused to power up at all. A much newer Western Digital 80gb unit was scored this morning, so now the reinstall can proceed.
I really am going crazy here. Good practice, though, and it makes me -think-, which can't help but be a good thing, right?