My mom's macbook (On TIGER operating system, not Leopard) is having trouble getting on the internet.
I've deleted the plist for the airport (so that all the wireless networks she has ever connected to, including our home network, were deleted). I also went into Keychain Access and deleted any airport/wireless related passwords.
Well, we got to the point that the airport was now showing it connected to our network, but wasnt actually working - (you couldn't surf the web in safari/do any other thing related to the internet). When I went into Preferences and then Network, it said the Airport was connected but had a self-assigned IP. Um, well digging deeper I see it is set to DHCP, and i even logged into my router, and seems to be the same way. Plus, I never set up self-assigned IP's! No one has touched our network settings in 4 months! So, I'm very confused. We've restarted the computer, turned the airport off, back on. I told her to go bed and try in the morning. I even had them unplug our router and modem (even though the other computers in the house had no problem connecting to the internet).
I honestly thought deleting the plist would do it. I guess I could do a hard reset on the router (but we also have an ethernet converter, and they were synced nicely, with secure settings, etc. So, i'd rather not do that, plus, i'm not sure it would solve it...)
Furthermore, I went to the library to try another wireless network, and it worked - so there is somethin sccrewy between our router and her macbook.
Interestingly enough, when I put the password in for the network, 1. it says there was an error with the network, 2. when I go into the "edit" the password it has a completely different password in the password box with a $ sign at the beginning. What is going on here! I know WEP passwords have $ in front of them on the tiger operating system, but I am not using WEP... I am using AES/TKIP with AOSS (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOSS) - which I enter on MY macbook pro (running leopard) as "WPA Personal" and it works.
I think I remember having trouble connecting this macbook with our wireless originally. So, maybe when I reset everything (deleted plist, etc), I screwed something up. Does Tiger not work with AES? It has to, because it worked before!
My router is a Buffalo WHR-HP-G54 with AES/TKIP security settings (set up with AOSS) - it automatically sets up the wireless. There is also a buffalo ethernet converter (WLI-TX4-G54HP) in the house.
And as mentioned, it's also weird that the airport will say it is "connected" to the wireless, but the safari won't connect. Or itunes, or anything needing internet. again, telling me it has a self assigned IP...
I've deleted the plist for the airport (so that all the wireless networks she has ever connected to, including our home network, were deleted). I also went into Keychain Access and deleted any airport/wireless related passwords.
Well, we got to the point that the airport was now showing it connected to our network, but wasnt actually working - (you couldn't surf the web in safari/do any other thing related to the internet). When I went into Preferences and then Network, it said the Airport was connected but had a self-assigned IP. Um, well digging deeper I see it is set to DHCP, and i even logged into my router, and seems to be the same way. Plus, I never set up self-assigned IP's! No one has touched our network settings in 4 months! So, I'm very confused. We've restarted the computer, turned the airport off, back on. I told her to go bed and try in the morning. I even had them unplug our router and modem (even though the other computers in the house had no problem connecting to the internet).
I honestly thought deleting the plist would do it. I guess I could do a hard reset on the router (but we also have an ethernet converter, and they were synced nicely, with secure settings, etc. So, i'd rather not do that, plus, i'm not sure it would solve it...)
Furthermore, I went to the library to try another wireless network, and it worked - so there is somethin sccrewy between our router and her macbook.
Interestingly enough, when I put the password in for the network, 1. it says there was an error with the network, 2. when I go into the "edit" the password it has a completely different password in the password box with a $ sign at the beginning. What is going on here! I know WEP passwords have $ in front of them on the tiger operating system, but I am not using WEP... I am using AES/TKIP with AOSS (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOSS) - which I enter on MY macbook pro (running leopard) as "WPA Personal" and it works.
I think I remember having trouble connecting this macbook with our wireless originally. So, maybe when I reset everything (deleted plist, etc), I screwed something up. Does Tiger not work with AES? It has to, because it worked before!
My router is a Buffalo WHR-HP-G54 with AES/TKIP security settings (set up with AOSS) - it automatically sets up the wireless. There is also a buffalo ethernet converter (WLI-TX4-G54HP) in the house.
And as mentioned, it's also weird that the airport will say it is "connected" to the wireless, but the safari won't connect. Or itunes, or anything needing internet. again, telling me it has a self assigned IP...
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