old school g4 to new network

[Kando]

Ok, don't laugh at this one. A teacher brought in a G4 mac for use in her classroom. It is running 9.2. She wants to use it as an extra computer for writing, and non-intensive web surfing. Now, I have put in the proxy address that the school uses and connected it to the hub in the class. I get a good address, 10.30..., but when opening the browser, IE5 for Mac, I get a message that the connection can not be made. Is there some setting that I missed that is stopping IE from getting to the home page in spite of having a good IP address? DHCP is set, the proxy is set, the connection is good, what else is there?

I used Finder to check the network I get a good address for the school's network, I just can not get IE to connect to websites.

I get 10.30.178.80 which is in the correct range for the school and like I said, it is set to get the address via DHCP.

This is an ethernet and the the other computers in the class are all online as is the network printer.

What am I missing?

Thanks

[BC_Programmer]

might be that the network administrator needs to explicitly add new network computers to get them to access the web. (common practice, actually)

[Kando]

No, that is not it. I am the one that can add computers to the school network. I do it all the time with teacher's laptops, macbooks, ibooks and the occasional ipod touch. I know the settings are correct, but I have not hooked up an apple computer this old to the network.

The wired computers just need the proxy set in their browser and the wireless just need the ssid and security password in the network settings and proxy in the browser.

Thanks for the reply, anyone else have an idea?

[midsail]

Have u try different browers?. Firefox works great.

[Kando]

I looked at early versions of Firefox, but, they require OS 10 as far back as version 2.0.

[Kando]

Would a version of Linux work on this machine? Still can't connect and hopefully that is an option.

[socrates]

I know yellowdog linux works on powerpc processors.

My best recommendation though would be to upgrade that machine to OS X.  You could easily find a cheap copy of 10.3 or 10.4 to put on it, and it'd be a lot easier than throwing yellow dog on it.

[Kando]

I will pass it on to the teacher, not sure if she wants to spend money on it. She brought it to school to make room in her apartment. Now she has a couple of Macbooks, more outlay of money may not be in the books.

[Kando]

Ok, been a while but I had to post an update. The teacher did not want to purchase the new OS so I went looking for other options. Found out that Ubuntu was available for the PowerPC and downloaded an ISO. Installed it to the G4 and it is running like a charm.

Just an update and thanks for the answers.

[socrates]

Thanks for the update.  Glad to hear they have ubuntu now for PPC.

Enjoy.