My son has an xbox360 which he has tried to get on the network to no avail. He has set the automatic feature and the xbox comes back with the linksys' router address, but it can't find an ip address. Same thing with a mac powermac that I have. The two winslows machines are ok. I have tried powering down the router and modem....to no avail. I've been steered toward a firmware update for my Linksys N router, but nothing seems to work. I cannot get the mac to share files with the winslows machines. At least with xp, there's an add a network place, start a home or business network' option, which the mac doesn't have. The mac has just about everything you could want, mail, safari, for browsing, iphoto for photo manipulation qand printing.
I bought my son a wireless network adaptor for xmas but I don't know if that will work or not. I know he has to plug in directly to the modem, bypassing or leaving out the router, to get on with an ethernet cable.
Anyone else experiencing this?
2006-12-20 06:34:16 · 1 answers · asked by HarryO43 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Laptops & Notebooks
Microsoft has a lot of influence on the mac, software update, office, virtual machine for windows xp....etc. It's too bad the two can't, I know they can coexist, but aren't right now. I just can't add the mac to my network places. There's gotta be a simple way to do it but it's beyond me. I"ll go to a mac board or newsgroup and see what they have to say!
Thanks.
Harry
2006-12-22 07:38:45 · update #1
its because you have a macintosh if you had a microsoft computer it would work, because many reasons one of the biggest is that xbox is made by microsoft it would make sense if they added support for their own products
2006-12-20 06:35:56 · answer #1 · answered by yakkyigooconroy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋