I learned about the importance of backups the hard way, as many of us did. I don't want to lose my websites, for sure. Still, there are so many changeable settings in all those Network and Sharing panels and sub-panels and sub-sub panels that I'm sure to foul something up if I go messing around with them, so maybe I'll just leave well enough alone and be grateful for what does work.Īnd yes, thanks, I've got two external hard drives attached to this G5, one of them running a Time Machine backup on it, so I feel like the data in its two internal drives is pretty safe.
#USED MAC G5 QUAD PRO#
The G5 is running 10.5 Leopard and the Mac Pro is running 10.11.6 El Capitan, so there's a gap of five OS revisions in between them nevertheless the Network and Sharing panels look about the same. Well you've given me a lot of help here Patrick and I appreciate it. Check the server name or IP address and try again.”Ĭan anyone tell me what those messages mean, and how I might correct the problem? I’m afraid to make any changes to the network settings without knowing what I’m doing, for fear of losing what I have right now. There was an error connecting to the server. Sometimes a different error message comes up that says: “Connection Failed. Please access the volumes and files locally.” This file server is running on your machine. When I try to connect it to the Mac Pro that I use on a daily basis (and that the modem is plugged into), I get an error message on the G5’s monitor that says: However, the G5 itself can only connect to two of the other three Mac. So that goal has been achieved.Īs a bonus, the other three computers on our home network can now connect wirelessly to the G5 and share files with it, should I ever want to do that.
#USED MAC G5 QUAD SOFTWARE#
That was my main goal all along: website management using the old GoLive software that that won’t run on any Mac newer than a PowerMac G5. Now my old Adobe GoLive website-creation-and-management software on the G5 is able to upload changes to my websites (I made a few small changes and uploaded them to test it). So I put the Airport Extreme card onto the Runway card, put the Runway card into the G5, plugged the two little wire antennas into the Airport card, buttoned up and started up the Mac, and presto! the G5 can now link to the Internet through our home wifi network. A friend of mine who had some old G5s looked inside them and spotted a Runway card in one, the thing I needed for my Airport Card to attach to, and he gave it to me. Success! The old Mac G5 Quad-core is now able to connect to the Internet! But it isn’t through the USB dongle as I thought it was going to be it’s through the Airport Extreme card after all.
#USED MAC G5 QUAD MAC OS#
So, I guess I've got two searches going now: one for a G5 Runway Card and, another for a USB wifi device that will work with Mac OS Leopard. However, all the newer USB plug-in wifi devices that I've looked at so far either work with only with Windows, or if they do support Mac OS, they require a later version than 10.5 Leopard, which is what I'm running in the G5 in order to run the software I need. So it's frustrating and unstable and I quit using it. Sometimes the G5 can get onto our home wifi network with it, and thence onto the Internet, but more often it won't, and even when it does the connection often suddenly breaks. These Runway Cards appear to be rare items, and priced accordingly: $60 - $100.Īs to USB methods of getting wifi, I have a little gadget that I've had for a few years with an antenna that plugs into any of the G5's USB ports, with a related app called NewerTech Wireless Utility. All of them advertise Runway Cards, but none have any in stock, nor do they expect to get any (the three whose phone numbers I've called). Well, so far today, aside from MacPalace, I've tried Macsology, Power Mac Parts, UsedMacsUS,, and MacParts online.
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