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<\/a>Kindle! Kindle! Kindle!<\/p><\/div>\n
It does just about everything I wanted in a e-book reader and it’s much easier to take with me than the iPad. I’ll post a full review after I’ve used it for a month or two.<\/p>\n
Anyhow, I was trying to connect it to my MacBook Pro with Internet Sharing enabled, but the Kindle would not connect to the MacBook.<\/p>\n
After digging online a bit, I found the solution on a Kindle forum<\/a>. You have to manually set up a Kindle’s connection if you want to use a Mac’s internet sharing because the Mac implementation of DHCP sucks giant nards of doom. (There’s a more technical reason, but that’s the gist of it.)<\/p>\n To connect a Kindle to a Mac that is sharing their internet connection, press the MENU button on the Kindle and go to SETTINGS. From there, choose WiFi settings and highlight the MacBook’s internet sharing name.<\/p>\n From there, you need to choose to set up the WiFi MANUALLY. Keep the security settings on WEP, but instead of DHCP, choose STATIC.<\/p>\n Then fill out in the following…<\/p>\n IP : 10.0.2.251 TIP : <\/strong>Don’t forget on the Kindle you can press ALT-Q to enter a 1, ALT-W to enter a 2, ALT-E to enter a 3 and so on. (ALT-P is a 0)<\/p>\n Once I did that, the Kindle was on the wireless network downloading everything I wanted!<\/p>\n One final note – that last part of the IP can be anything from 220 to 254, but it’s better if you pick something high.<\/p>\n Thanks to ElkAintMoose and Obijohn<\/a> for hammering this mess out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A couple of days ago I brought home a Kindle from Amazon (the WiFi + 3G version). So far I’m absolutely nuts about it. It does just about everything I wanted in a e-book reader and it’s much easier to … Continue reading
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