Trouble getting IP address from DHCP-enabled router

I've recently set up a LinkSys WRT54G wired/wireless router on a home network that has a wired Windows XP machine and a wireless PowerBook with AirPort.

The WRT54G assigns network addresses using DHCP. The PowerBook is able to find the wireless network established by the WRT54G, but doesn't get an IP address from it.

The router seems to be behaving correctly, so I'm guessing there's a problem in the PowerBook setup somewhere. Any ideas?

Mac OS X (10.4.8), 1GHz PowerPC G4 PowerBook

Posted on Oct 9, 2006 12:02 PM

35 replies

GGruman

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Nov 25, 2006 3:18 PM in response to afedora

I've been able to connect to other wireless access points (such as at neighbors), but not mine. I think the issue may be that my wireless router is connected through a wired router (the wireless router works as an access point this way and has DHCP disabled) -- I had the same connection problem at a friend's house set up the same way. Perhaps the Apple wireless card can't handle the hops between the devices even though a half dozen Windows devices can?

Nov 25, 2006 3:42 PM in response to GGruman

Have you tried manually assigning an IP address. If your router is 192.168.1.1, assign your Mac something like 192.168.1.10

Dec 20, 2006 4:51 AM in response to Lawrence Kahan

Mr. Kahan,

When you loaded firmware 1.00.9 did it effect the connectivity with your windows based laptops? I will be trying your fix tomorrow (fingers crossed).

Dec 20, 2006 5:29 AM in response to A Dying Breed

No - the PC connected as usual. However, the firmware situation has changed recently. The new firmware that was released a couple of weeks ago, version 1.01.1 seems more stable and fixed the DHCP problem in version 1.01.0. I'd recommend updating to 1.01.1 rather than falling back to 1.00.9

Dec 21, 2006 6:17 AM in response to Lawrence Kahan

Thanks, I will certainly do that today and update the group on the results.

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Trouble getting IP address from DHCP-enabled router