I am a new owner of a Boundless Webplayer with a built in ethernet card ($149 from UBID). This machine was shipped with no password and it appears that it can be used directly by pluging into my home network. My internet connection is shared by using a Linksys BEFS41 router.The built in web browser looks like it wants to load the webpage but the progress bar slows and stalls and the page never loads. When set to DHCP the Webplayer does not see my router. Whats the trick to configuring the webplayer to work on my home network. I understand that these Boundless Webplayers are being used as a low cost alternative to a full computer in a "Cyber Cafe" setting. I've also heard that Boundless has altered these Webplayers from the original Virgin machines so that a "Hack" is not necessary unless you want to load Win 98 onto an added hard drive. Can anyone give me some insite or point me to a webpage on how to configure an unaltered Boundless Webplayer to deliver internet access on a shared home internet connection.
Thanks in advance for your help.
06-19-2001 17:19:09
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All I did was config for DHCP and plug it into my same model linksys router. It worked ok. It was a little slow so I put the '98 with IE' image on the DOC, and am satisfied with that.
06-19-2001 17:38:14
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A link please to the webpage that describes how to put the "WIN 98 with IE" image on the DOC. Does this indeed speed up your "surfing experience" with a webplayer? Is a laptop hard drive necessary to do this or can the image be put on the DOC chip. I thought that I've seen all the Webplayer related sites but must have missed a few.
Thanks again for the input!
06-20-2001 09:42:18
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I got the image from http://www.i-hacked.com (which appears to be not working) I think it is on a ftp site on his domain. The procedure is the same for putting any image on the DOC. I had a 44 to 40 pin IDE adapter that I put on the webplayer motherboard, then I connected a standard IDE cable to a 3.5" drive that was powered from an external supply. You go into the bios and configure it to boot from the hard drive (the drive will have to have been prepared to boot to a command prompt, and have the utilites and DOC image on it.) Use the utilities on the I-hacked site to download the image onto the DOC from the HD. After that, I boot from the DOC and have a CD drive hooked to the IDE cable so I can load the drivers for the ethernet adapter.
There are other methods of putting the image on the DOC. You could use an adapter in a PC and mount the DOC in it. I think other people have used a modified Websurfer.
I think the machine is more responsive with this image than the boundless image. It is a better browser for sure.
06-20-2001 19:17:31
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Lucubrate,
Can you post (or email) an image of your internal-ethernet-enabled DOC for those of us with the Boundless internal NIC version of the WebPlayer?
My email address: snowskier1@hotmail.com
Thanks!
-- Jeff
06-20-2001 22:20:15
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A few problems with that. I don't have a web site that can hold 48 megs. I don't know if my or your email can handle 48 meg attachment. I might have to take the thing apart again to get the DOC image :(
I will think about it.
06-21-2001 17:14:22
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There's one advantage: you can sell the ethernet card to someone here, probably for more than the difference between a modem and ethernet version.
Or....if you're going wireless I'll guess you mean a USB wireless connection, but I'm not certain if there are small wireless setups that use ethernet between the machine and the wireless unit.
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