Share Internet From M1 Mac mini to old G4. How?

[richardallan]

I want to share the internet from my Mac mini to my old Digital Audio G4. I didn't think this would be too difficult. I know I can't connect the G4 to my wireless router because of the security. I have an old Airport base station that I know still works because I connected it to the router a while ago to connect my Pismo & it worked fine. The problem is that it's not convenient to have the base station connected to the router all the time. I thought if I connected it via ethernet to the mini & turned on internet sharing everything would be fine. It all looks pretty good but alas no internet on the G4.

Any suggestions? I'm sort of stumped. I don't know what to do next. Thanks in advance for any help.

 

[Dannyshing27]

you could always get an apple usb to ethernet dongle and share the wifi connection to the g4 via it

 

[richardallan]

Thanks for your suggestion but I have got it working now. I think I was over complicating it.

Wondering now if I can get the internet working in OS 9. I've forgotten what to do. Maybe there's not much point anyway but it would be cool.

 

[Amethyst1]

Wondering now if I can get the internet working in OS 9. I've forgotten what to do.

Don’t you have to configure TCP/IP (to use DHCP) on OS 9?

 

[richardallan]

All working now. The internet on OS 9 is pretty useless now but it's fun to get it set up properly...

 

[Project Alice]

All working now. The internet on OS 9 is pretty useless now but it's fun to get it set up properly...

Yeah, you can browse some places like the Macintosh garden on it though. And I used my G3 wallstreet with a web rendering proxy a few months ago and that was kinda fun.

I basically just network os9 to access my NAS, though.

 

[richardallan]

I might have another go at sharing from the Mac mini to the Airport base station so that I can connect all my old computers wirelessly rather than just one at a time with the Ethernet cable.