Hit "Open" on MacPPP and -whoosh- you're connected to the internet! Make sure the baudrate is the same as you set in MacPPP. Assuming you've already got drivers figured out for your system, connect the vintage mac to your internet-connected mac and open a terminal to type the commands in the above thread. Once MacTCP is setup, make a MacPPP profile with no phone number and baudrate set at 57600. I will include instructions and code for a simple proxy. * I have not yet been able to resolve any domain name outside the router, which I have yet to figure out. Set that to something similar to one on your network (for example, gateway is 192.168.0.1, ip is 192.168.0.123) You should have a box for "IP Address" when you click ok. Make sure your subnet is correct (in my case, 255.255.255.0).Set "Class" (in the IP Address settings) to C.Set gateway address as your router's IP address (in my case, 192.168.0.1).
Nowhere on any pages of this thread does it tell how to properly setup MacTCP, which I had to experiment with for quite a while. In the end I got a nice tty.usbmodem to work with. I ended up using my iBook G4, but had to get ancient PowerPC drivers for the USB->Serial adapter from. The PPP daemon for Linux just doesn't do what you would need, and the one for a later OS X (in my case 10.7) would not run. There were a few things I had to do differently.įirst, you cannot do it on a modern system for some reason. Original page (you'll need this for most of the tutorial): I'm going to add further instruction to it (which is mostly copied from a reply to a thread I made). A topic (that is currently pinned) exists with a tutorial for connecting your Macintosh to the internet using USB -> serial, but it is very outdated and I ran into several issues while following it.