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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Mac users?
« on: November 18, 2005, 07:50:34 AM »
Are you using WEP or WPA? I heard that the DS can only work with with WEP.
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Nintendo Gaming / Question about nicknames
« on: November 18, 2005, 07:49:32 AM »Ok, so I already have a nickname that I put in my DS (in the settings). Then I have a login name for the Nintendo web site. Then I have what they call the "Screen Name" for the Nintendo site. Are any of these used for the WiFi network? Like what name is used when comparing scores, etc... or do I need yet another username???
Thanks,
Michael
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Nintendo Gaming / RE:Wifi question
« on: August 27, 2005, 12:46:58 PM »
Ok, you obviously don't use Linux. The USB driver would have to be released as source, then compiled to run in a completely different OS. It's not easy. Certianly not just "recompiling the kernel".
Anyways, I asked originally because the PC or whatever computer it is connecting to the 'net should not even be an issue. I just don't see why it matters what OS is running, as long as you have a WiFi connection to the internet. There's no reason to limit it to PC-only, because all you need is a standard WiFi connection. If that happens to be through a PC, Mac, Linux box, whatever.. it shouldn't matter. You may not even have a computer! It might just be a wireless router plugged right into a DSL modem or cable modem, but that is a perfectly servicable internet connection.
Please don't respond on this thread unless you understand networking. Let's try to keep the chaff to a minimum. Thanks!
Anyways, I asked originally because the PC or whatever computer it is connecting to the 'net should not even be an issue. I just don't see why it matters what OS is running, as long as you have a WiFi connection to the internet. There's no reason to limit it to PC-only, because all you need is a standard WiFi connection. If that happens to be through a PC, Mac, Linux box, whatever.. it shouldn't matter. You may not even have a computer! It might just be a wireless router plugged right into a DSL modem or cable modem, but that is a perfectly servicable internet connection.
Please don't respond on this thread unless you understand networking. Let's try to keep the chaff to a minimum. Thanks!
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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Wifi question
« on: August 26, 2005, 12:03:13 PM »
Makes sense, and that's what I figured. Perhaps they would sell some simple wireless router for people that don't have an existing wireless, and that may be what requires the PC, blaa, blaa....
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Nintendo Gaming / RE:Wifi question
« on: August 26, 2005, 11:39:46 AM »
But again, why the constraint? What if I only run Linux machines? It's still a perfectly acceptable WiFi network. The operating system of the host machine should have nothing to do with it. Now, I actually have both Linux and Apple machines, but my main network routing machine is a Linux box.
I could understand perhaps an optional wireless router than you can buy, but I'm saying if you already have a wireless network at home, there shouldn't be anything else you need to do. Just turn on your DS and its WiFi should grab an IP address from your DHCP server, like any normal machine would do on a new network.
I could understand perhaps an optional wireless router than you can buy, but I'm saying if you already have a wireless network at home, there shouldn't be anything else you need to do. Just turn on your DS and its WiFi should grab an IP address from your DHCP server, like any normal machine would do on a new network.
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Nintendo Gaming / Wifi question
« on: August 26, 2005, 11:30:49 AM »
So there has not been a lot of technical detail about this WiFi network. Seriously, does anyone know if it will just use existing 802.11g or b and NOT need some software routing software? I ask because I do not own any Windows machines at home, but run a wireless network. I just want to know if it'll work with *standards* like DHCP to get an IP, and then just use normal TCP/IP to get out to a central Nintendo server...
I heard things like "anyone with a PC (as in windows) and an internet connection" can use it, but why the restriction to a PC? I sure hope this isn't some proprietary thing, or else I'll be quite upset. I imagine software in the game cart (Mario Kart, Metroid Hunters) will have the networking stack to be able to use standard WiFi.
I guess they would have to if they want anyone with a DS to play at coffee shops, etc, where they have no control over the actual networking hardware.
Thoughts? Anyone know anything more?
I heard things like "anyone with a PC (as in windows) and an internet connection" can use it, but why the restriction to a PC? I sure hope this isn't some proprietary thing, or else I'll be quite upset. I imagine software in the game cart (Mario Kart, Metroid Hunters) will have the networking stack to be able to use standard WiFi.
I guess they would have to if they want anyone with a DS to play at coffee shops, etc, where they have no control over the actual networking hardware.
Thoughts? Anyone know anything more?
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Nintendo Gaming / RE: What on Gods earth is this maddness?
« on: August 24, 2005, 11:58:28 AM »
That was just about the worst commercial I have ever seen. Why, Nintendo, why!??!?!
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