How to share a wireless connection with a Nintendo DS

Nov 29, '05 05:29:00AM

Contributed by: november

With the recent release of Mario Kart DS and Tony Hawk: American Sk8land, Nintendo has launched its new WiFi service. If you've got an OS X box with internet access (other than through the AirPort card), and an AirPort card to transmit from, you can get online in no time.

Read on for a step-by-step guide that should have enough detail to be followed by a networking novice...

Here's how to use your Mac to share your internet connection with your DS:

  1. Make sure you're connected to the internet via something other than the AirPort card (i.e. Ethernet).

  2. Turn on Internet Sharing: For sharing internet access with other computers, this is usually sufficient. However, the DS doesn't play well with the built-in DHCP server, so we have to manually configure the DS. To do this we, must gather some info...

  3. Gather Information:
  4. Configure the DS:
That's it, now just have fun!

This hint was tested in Panther and Tiger, and the following links were very helpful in compiling this guide: [robg adds: I don't have a DS, so I can't test this one...]

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