Can't get my TRENDnet router to work with MacOS 9.2.2 or earlier...

[Shawn]

I don't know what the deal is but I can't get my TRENDnet TEW-611BRP router to work with classic mac os. I have tried it with MacOS 7.6, 9.0.4, and 9.2.2 and even though the DHCP finds everything correctly I can't connect with the internet. I can however connect to the router settings if I type in it's IP: 192.168.0.1.

I have tried different browsers and configuring the settings manually with no luck. On my G3 I dual boot between OS X Tiger and OS 9.2.2 and it works fine in OS X on the same computer. If I hook the up computer directly to my cable modem I can get online just fine.

Any ideas?

 

[Dean]

Did you specify DNS and Search Domains in your CLASSIC MacOS TCP/IP Control Panel Settings?

 

[Shawn]

I specified DNS but not search domains. What is that exactly?

 

[phisrow]

This is something of a long shot, I'll admit, as I've neither the router in question nor any Mac OS machines.

Anyway, I once had a problem that was similarly weird. It was a dual boot XP home/Linux 2.6 box, using a wireless network adapter that worked like a charm under both OSs(tested at another site). Linux would connect just fine, grab an IP, could access the router, and all that; but no luck with internet. Windows worked just fine. In this case, it turned out to be a fault with the Connection Specific DNS suffix that the router was feeding the computer (it was domain_not_set.invalid). For reasons unclear to me, Windows just ignored this broken behavior, while Linux didn't.

I don't know how to check the connection specific DNS suffix on either flavor of Mac OS, and I'm also not sure how to work around this in those OSs; but I'd recommend giving this line of attack a look.

 

[Dean]

Search Domains would be your provider's domain name. Like if it is comcast, it would be comcast.net. Also make sure Apple Talk is disabled as that may be causing your router to vomit. Also can you open any ip addresses externally in your web browser like google? Type this into your web browser 72.14.205.104 to see if it opens google.

 

[Shawn]

Thanks! How did you solve this problem with your setup?

 

[Shawn]

Originally posted by: Dean
Search Domains would be your provider's domain name. Like if it is comcast, it would be comcast.net. Also make sure Apple Talk is disabled as that may be causing your router to vomit. Also can you open any ip addresses externally in your web browser like google? Type this into your web browser 72.14.205.104 to see if it opens google.

Ok I tried typing in comcast.net for the search domain but it didn't seem to make a difference. Appletalk has been disabled. I also tried typing in google's ip address and it still won't connect. Really weird...

 

[Dean]

Is the MacOS9 showing a proper assigned IP? I would trash the tcp/ip preferences and start over. Something is not right.

 

[phisrow]

Originally posted by: Shawn
Thanks! How did you solve this problem with your setup?

That box is 6 months and a thousand miles away, so I'm working from memory; but I think it was a tweak to /etc/dhclient.conf
That thread covers a BSD user who was having that problem. The beginning isn't too helpful; but he fixes it in the end.
http://www.freebsdforums.org/forums/showthread.php?mode=hybrid&t=36605

If this is your problem, forcing a valid DNS suffix on the client(overriding the DHCP assigned one) is the easiest answer. Unfortunately, I've no idea how to do that in OS9 or earlier.

 

[Shawn]

Originally posted by: Dean
Is the MacOS9 showing a proper assigned IP? I would trash the tcp/ip preferences and start over. Something is not right.

This is what DCHP finds in OS 9:

IP Address: 192.168.0.159
Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0
Router IP: 192.168.0.1
Name server addr. 68.87.74.162

This is what my router reports:

WAN

Connection Type : DHCP Client Connected
Connection Up Time : 1 day(s), 7:44:06

MAC Address : 00:14😀1:C0:13:41
IP Address : 68.35.226.218
Subnet Mask : 255.255.252.0
Default Gateway : 68.35.224.1
Primary DNS Server : 68.87.74.162
Secondary DNS Server : 68.87.68.162
Bigpond Server : Disabled
Bigpond Server Name : login-server
Bigpond Status : NA


LAN

MAC Address : 00:14😀1:C0:13:41
IP Address : 192.168.0.1
Subnet Mask : 255.255.255.0
DHCP Server : Enabled

Also the computer's mac address and ip shows up under the router's DCHP Client List.

 

[BlackOmen]

What happens when you ping the gateway (68.35.224.1)? Can you ping one of the dns servers (68.87.74.162)?

 

[Shawn]

I'm not sure. How do I ping with OS 9?

 

[camara120]

You need WhatRoute to do pings and tracerts on OS 9 and older.