I'm using the meditation exercises I learned yesterday at one of our Staff Development sessions to exhale all of the frustration and agitation I just experienced trying for the third time to convert my home printer to wireless by using a Netgear server I bought last week. This is what happens when you don't purchase expensive Mac gadgets to do what you want. I installed the software on my wired PC just fine, but when I wanted to add the Macbook, of course the nifty little installation directions didn't appear on the screen because Mac doesn't read .exe. Soooo I called Netgear support who said they don't support Mac products (even though on the Netgear box it says the server is compatible with OS X.) So I called AppleCare (incidentally, did you know our laptops come with AppleCare through 2010? Cool!) Anyway, Apple folks said they don't support 3rd party equipment. My last ditch effort was this a.m. when I put the Macbook on the PC side and tried. Yeah! The computer read the disk. BUT it hit a roadblock and after troubleshooting for a bit, I gave up. I uninstalled the server and it's in the box ready to go back to Office Depot. By the way, when I hear "server" I think of at least a computer-sized device. This one fits in my hand. I'm not sure how I'll print from my Macbook at home at this point. I'll have to do some more investigating. I may just wait until my daughter comes home from college this summer with her wireless printer.
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