BlueSCSI V2 wifi Color Classic

[franck2]

Hi all

I recently connected an internal Bluescsi V2 wifi to a Colour Classic with System 7.6.1 following all the instructions. The wifi application tells me that I am on the right SSID, everything seems to be well configured in TCP/IP manually (IP computer, IP routeur, subnet mask and even the DNS in "Name server address"). I then open Netscape Navigator 2.02 which refuses to open any web page ("... unable to locate the server... does not have a DNS entrey..."). When I put the router address, Netscape accesses it without any problem. I also tried an external BlueSCSI V2 wifi on a Performa 6400 and MacOS 9.2 and IE5 and it worked directly without any particular adjustment. Thank you for your help

Franck

 

[eric]

Will need some more details - are you using MacTCP or OpenTransport? Can you ping an external IP address? (eg 1.1.1.1) from the CC. Please share some screen shots of your configuration as well. Sounds like networking is working but DNS is unable to resolve, so we'll need to see how you configured it.

 

[franck2]

Will need some more details - are you using MacTCP or OpenTransport? Can you ping an external IP address? (eg 1.1.1.1) from the CC. Please share some screen shots of your configuration as well. Sounds like networking is working but DNS is unable to resolve, so we'll need to see how you configured it.

Hi Eric
I'm using open transport (the version who is in the BlueSCSI Bootstrap folder) without use MacTCP. Even with MacTCP it doesn't work and if I understood MacTCP is an older version of TCP/IP.
The app Wi-Fi DA show me the CC is connected on my network with 4/5 signal. When I ping 1.1.1.1 with MacTCP Ping it's a success.

 

[franck2]

I actually understood where my problem came from. Netscape 2.02 browser can only open sites with URL in IP format. it does not understand text format. So does the problem come from a browser setting? yet on this video

we can clearly see that the frogfind.com link works well with this version of the browser.
by entering 64.227.13.248 I was able to access the site.
but I would still like to be able to write domain names in letters

 

[eric]

It appears to be a problem with your local DNS server then. I would try removing your local one and, just for testing, try 1.1.1.1 or 8.8.8.8 to validate as they are known working public DNS servers.

 

[franck2]

It appears to be a problem with your local DNS server then. I would try removing your local one and, just for testing, try 1.1.1.1 or 8.8.8.8 to validate as they are known working public DNS servers.

should I enter these public DNS in my router settings?

 

[eric]

No, I mean just in your TCP/IP control panel - Just remove the current one (192.168.1.254) and put 1.1.1.1 or 8.8.8.8, save, restart, try again. Dont change anything else. This will tell us if there is some issue with your router's DNS and OpenTransport.

 

[franck2]

No, I mean just in your TCP/IP control panel - Just remove the current one (192.168.1.254) and put 1.1.1.1 or 8.8.8.8, save, restart, try again. Dont change anything else. This will tell us if there is some issue with your router's DNS and OpenTransport.

8.8.8.8 or 1.1.1.1 in “name server address” doesn't work

 

[eric]

That is really odd - BlueSCSI seems to be working fine but something in MacOS isn't working with DNS. I've never seen this so I don't have a lot of additional steps to suggest!

Some (general) suggestions I'd try if it was me - 7.6.1 is extremely heavy for a Color Classic - I'd suggest trying 7.1 and MacTCP - just for something completely different. (7.1 can run 99.9% of what 7.6 can, and is much quicker). - Note this suggestion is just a shot in the dark as I've ran WiFi on system 7.6 with OT before. Maybe someone else has a better suggestion!

 

[franck2]

That is really odd - BlueSCSI seems to be working fine but something in MacOS isn't working with DNS. I've never seen this so I don't have a lot of additional steps to suggest!

Some (general) suggestions I'd try if it was me - 7.6.1 is extremely heavy for a Color Classic - I'd suggest trying 7.1 and MacTCP - just for something completely different. (7.1 can run 99.9% of what 7.6 can, and is much quicker). - Note this suggestion is just a shot in the dark as I've ran WiFi on system 7.6 with OT before. Maybe someone else has a better suggestion!

I already tried with 7.1, 7.5.5 with MacTCP or OpenTransport and it was the same. Why can I access the frogfind site by typing its IP and not with the address in www format? And then 7.6.1 is prettier

 

[eric]

Ahh I missed that, then it is even more strange that DNS only doesn't work for one machine. So can we take your local network out of the equation? Do you have the ability to setup a hot spot with your phone or connect to another friend/family's wifi network? Just trying to think of ways to narrow this further.

 

[franck2]

Ahh I missed that, then it is even more strange that DNS only doesn't work for one machine. So can we take your local network out of the equation? Do you have the ability to setup a hot spot with your phone or connect to another friend/family's wifi network? Just trying to think of ways to narrow this further.

it works! I followed your advice and took a new SD card, installed 7.1, put the necessary bluescsi files, installed dayna, MacTCP and entered my router, subnet mask and DNS 1.1.1.1. reboot and there tada! By installing the minimum it works. there may have been a file conflict in addition to the heaviness of the 7.6 system. I only have 8 MB so this one will be enough. Thank you for your help and I hope this will be useful to other people.