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

[Rick Buford <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

It sounds like you have:
Internet to
Linksys router to
Wireless WAP to
miscellaneous machines

and the problem is occuring on the other side of the WAP, but other 
machines (wired?) are working ok? Does the WAP have some software to 
check: 1) connection to the router, and 2) wireless connection to the Mac?

Have you checked the cables? I know it sounds silly, but I've seen 
cables that simply stopped working for no apparent reason.  

Rick

Mikhail Kovalenko wrote:

> Jonathan King wrote:
>
>> 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.  
>
>
> Check under Preferences > Networking options to make sure the upgrade 
> didn't change IP addressing from DHCP to bootp or something else.
>
>> Frustratingly, it can *see* the router just fine (I can ping the 
>> router's address just fine).
>
>
> That doesn't sound right. Is your router on 169.254 subnet too?
>
> --
> MK


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