Jack,

I had this problem with a "Wallstreet" Mac G3 Powerbook. As I recall, the workaround
was to set TCP/IP to use the IrDA port. If TCP/IP was set to "Ethernet" then you had to
have a real Ethernet plugged in (or a least an Ethernet hub). Hope the IrDA trick
works for you...

Incidentally, the G4 Powerbooks don't seem to have this problem.

	-- John


At 9:44 AM -0800 2/21/02, jeaton at trentu.ca wrote:
>hi,
>
>i finally got the admin interface working, but only in IE on ports other than 80... i even
>
>
>tried getting netscape 6.2.1 but it didn't work either. there is something strange, it
>would 
>only 
>find localhost from IE when i had my DSL
>connection online!
>
>anyone know of a "trick" 
>to let 
>the localhost loop work without actaully being online? now that i want to start 
>developing some 
>swikis it is impractical to only be able to do it when my DSL is on, since i have a 
>laptop and would want 
>to do it anywhere...
>
>BTW it is "classic" macOS, if it makes any 
>difference.
>
>thanks for all 
>the help so far,
>
>jack