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Sorry for the crappy headline.

So I got an AirPort Extreme so that everyone in the house could share a dialup connection, plus a printer (and my PowerBook can do this wirelessly )...

Everything is working great.  My brother's iMac and my PowerBook do everything as it should.  The problem I am having concerns my Dad's iMac 333.  The AirPort is set to not connect to the internet unless it is told to connect.  I set it this way because my brother and I have plenty of apps on our computers requesting a network connection, so it would constantly be dialing in.  It's easy enough to connect via an AirPort card.  However, my Dad's iMac does not have AirPort, and is connected via the ethernet plug.  It works fine if my brother or I connect to the internet, but I have not found a way for my dad to connect to the internet when no one else is connected.  The iMac is running 10.2.8 (I cannot get anything else on it, since it does not have a DVD drive, and it will not start up from an USB device).

As a side question, I am also having issues getting that iMac to print.  When I try to add a printer (I am trying to remember, since I did this a month ago), I think the add printer option does not show the USB printer connected to the base station (it works on my PB and my brother's iMac).

Actually, now that I think about it, the iMac 333 couldn't even connect to the base station to administer it.  So something is not right.

So if anyone has any suggestions, that would be great!

Thanks!