Airport not connecting to internet

I am having exactly the same issue with my macbook pro. I can connect rthrough my airport base with my iphone 4, my ipad, and two other pcs in teh house but my macbook keeps saying sef-assigned ip and wont let me on the internet.
This is extremely frustrating since I have restarted several times. I also even did a complete restore from the time machine backup and still no luck.

Steven Shmerler wrote:
In prefs / Network, Airport says: Airport has the self-assigned IP address (address is here) and will not be able to connect to the Internet.

I can connect to this WiFi with my iPad and iPhone no problem.

It might help to reset the connection settings on your Mac using these steps one at a time until the problem is resolved, recognizing that, depending on your problem, not all of these steps will make sense:

1) Use the AirPort menu bar item to turn AirPort off, then on again.

2) Try to select your Wi-Fi network from the AirPort menu.

3) In the Network panel of System Preferences delete the AirPort item from the left column, then add it back.

4) In the same panel as (3), define a new location and see if you can make that work.

5) In the same panel, select the AirPort connection item, click the "Advanced" button, select the "TCP/IP" tab, then click "Renew DHCP Lease".

6) In the folder /Library/Preferences ( not <yourhomefolder>/Library/Preferences), move the folder SystemConfiguration onto the Desktop, then restart your computer. See if you can now make your AirPort connection work.

These steps may not help, but they'll only take a couple of minutes to try. Before you try these, if you have any special network settings on your Mac for things like DSL credentials, note all your network settings, because the latter steps will destroy them. If you got all the way to the last step, if things don't work any worse than before, you can trash the saved SystemConfiguration folder.