01.01.05
Airport Express setup notes
Although some people have had problems setting up their Airport, I had no problem at all. I plugged the white semiregular polyhedron with curvilinearly-truncated edges into a spare plug on a power strip, opened up my Airport Setup Assistant (which had been updated recently when I took my iBook from 10.3.5 to 10.3.7) and it found the defaultly named airport Express without a problem.
No cross-over cable or router wiring needed. The only machine of consequence that can’t send music to the AX is my Blue&White G3. I need to either A) run an ethernet cable from one end of the apartment to the other to hook the AX into the wired network, or B) find a /cheap/ WiFi PCI card that will work in the G3.
One is ugly and cheap the other is elegant and more expensive. Isn’t that how it always is?
Added a couple hours later:
I finally figured out *exactly* what’s missing: an iTrip that connects via AirTunes. Com’on Griffin, you can do it! (Belkin, I’m still not speaking to you after that whole pop-up ad packets debacle.)