[MLUG] linksys WAP/router dhcp problems...

[Jonathan King <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

OK, so I have one of those great Linksys BEFW11S4 units (wireless access 
point/router + 4 port switch).  Everything used to work just fine: the 
machines in the house got IP addresses via dhcp from the Linksys, and 
everything was good.  Recently, I upgraded one of them (an iBook) to OS X 
10.2 (although I'm not sure that's important in solving the problem).  
Now, whenever I try to connect wirelessly (or by plugging in directly to 
the router), I cannot get my address via DHCP; instead the Mac 
not-so-cleverly self-assigns a bogus 169.254.whatever address.  I presume 
this means that it could not get a real IP via DHCP from the router.  
Frustratingly, it can *see* the router just fine (I can ping the router's 
address just fine).  Any idea what may be going wrong here?  Given that it 
used to work, I suspect there's something just a bit wrong in the set-up, 
but what to fix I do not know.

jking


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