Re: Airport Scripting app
Re: Airport Scripting app
- Subject: Re: Airport Scripting app
- From: Charles Arthur <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 11:55:44 +0000
On Thu, 9 Jan 2003 22:40:20 -0600, Max Bonilla <email@hidden>
wrote:
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I'm trying to script Airport in a G3 OS 9.2, but don't know which
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application to use. I've seen people talking about Airport
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Scripting, but haven't seen it anywhere. The G3 is a desktop and the
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Airport CD will not install.
Ah. Sounds like the pre-Airport machines, yes? They don't have the right
hardware for this, so yes indeed, you can't install the Airport software
and (the bad news) you can't do it by direct Airport scripting.
However, if you use Tome Viewer to extract the Airport Admin Utility from
the Airport CD, you should find that you're able to control which ISP the
Airport dials. You can set up various config files with this which you can
save. AAU may even be scriptable, but I don't think I dived in that far.
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Any ideas where to get an application to control the airport from the G3?
The good news: yes. Larry Rosenstein's Airport Modem Utility was written
specifically to deal with this sort of problem.
The briefly bad news: his mac.com page where it used to live is dead. All
praise then to the info-mac archives, where it lives on at
http://ftp.belnet.be/pub/mirror/ftp.sri.ucl.ac.be/pub/Airport/ as
http://ftp.belnet.be/pub/mirror/ftp.sri.ucl.ac.be/pub/Airport/ABSModemUtility.se
a.hqx (334K).
It is, thankfully, eminently scriptable. (I always had the problem that it
doesn't correctly get the base station status after waking from sleep, so
you have to quit + restart it; a simple app left for the reader to do.)
Just be careful that you don't disconnect someone using the iBook. This can
be the cause of marital tension. (I speak from experience.)
Charles
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