I don't recall if it's been suggested, but I have often had to completely shut down my cable modem and router, let them sit for a minute or so, then fire up the cable modem first, letting it connect to my ISP. After it's connected I turn my Airport back on, letting it register it's MAC address with my modem and pull a valid IP address from the ISP.
I set my Airport to straight DHCP, running NAT so that I get a 10.0.0.x address on connected computers. But I have seen situations where the cable modem/dsl modem won't recognize the ABS for some reason. In those cases, I've seen people stick a cheap cable modem router between the ABS and the DSL modem. The DSL modem will sync to the cheap router, the ABS will plug into the cheap router and pull an address from it. It might be worth picking a up one from CompUSA or WalMart and trying one out. If it doesn't work, you could always take it back. Bryan Forrest Macintosh Specialist LifeNet http://www.lifenet.org On Nov 8, 2003, at 9:04 PM, Anthony Wilson wrote: >> The same will then apply to the ABS. >> >> In the config, where you are given the choice to get the ABS's IP via >> DHCP or manually, select manual, then enter the IP number Iglou gave >> you to use. The subnet mask will be 255.255.255.0 > > Sorry, I hit send before I was finished with the previous post... > > I tried that - entering the IP address manually w/ the ABS > > Still no connection. :-) > I can only get a connection with the iBook hooked up by cable to the > DSL > modem. > > Jerry, I really appreciate the time you've spent helping me with > this.. and > on a Saturday to boot. > > I'm not sure where to go with this. Maybe tomorrow I 'll do a full > reset one > more time, enter the IP address manually... and pray real hard. I > suppose I > could reinstall OS X; whenever I have a problem with Windows that's > what I > do :-) > > Thanks again, Jerry > Tony > > > > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will > | be November 25. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. > | This list's page is <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>. > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be November 25. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | This list's page is <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>.
