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Airport stopped working

Hi Again... it seems

I have an Airport Extreme, works fine with all of my computers except one. The one in question is a PPC G-5 OS X 10.4.11. I've used SysPrefs for setting up, but the Airport icon remains grayed out.

I opened Network Utility and saw that the IP address isn't even close. It's set to 6.3.6.0. I am not sure how to get the address changed without resetting a lot of things (that I might eventually break).

If I try to run Airport Utility, the PPC will not see it, no matter what I try.

I have gone into Disk Utility and reset the perms. I have deleted the old config files from SysPrefs. I have done that and rebooted, but nothing will unlock my IP for 6.3.6.0. The rest of my system is on 172.x.x.x.

Question, how do I get the mis-config'd file out of my computer and renew the IP?

Hope that's clear

Thanks,

Pat

PPC G-5 2.0, Mac OS X (10.4.11)

Posted on Jan 27, 2010 1:57 PM

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5 replies

Jan 27, 2010 2:28 PM in response to Curious1

Well, if you want to ty the files, I'd do it in a Safe Boot from the HD, (holding Shift key down at bootup)...

/Library/Preferences/com.apple.sharing.firewall.plist

/Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/com.apple.internetconnect.plist

/Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/preferences.plist

/Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/com.apple.systempreferences.plist

/Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.airport.preferences.plist

/Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/NetworkInterfaces.plist

/Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.nat.plist

Look for files like this also...

/Users/YourUserName/Library/ByHost/com.apple.PrefPane.Network.<12digitHexNumber> .plist

Or...
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/ByHost/com.apple.networkConnect.<12digit HexNumber>.plist

/Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/ByHost/com.apple.networkConnect.<etherne t MAC address>.plist

/Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/com.apple.recentitems.plist

Airport stopped working

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