On 2/28/10 8:40 PM, Ashgrove wrote:
Hi my friends,
My Pismo has developed a couple of quirks that seem unrelated, but you
never know. First, lately it has trouble connecting to my wireless
home network via Airport. More often than not, it gets the dreaded
"self-assigned IP" thingie. I tried a lot of fixes, and the only thing
that seems to get rid of the problem is eliminating the WEP encoding
altogether. Once it's back in place, the disconnects begin anew.
This SEEMS to be caused by the list of WiFi Networks getting too big or
corrupt. I don't which file it is for certain. It may be:
~/Library/Keychains/login.keychain
Try moving that file to the desktop, logout, login in again and see if
the problem persists.
Or you can go into the System Preferences / Network / Airport, Advanced,
Airport tab and delete any entries in the Preferred Networks list that
are out of date, etc.
Or you can use the Keychain Utility.
Each one of these works a little different.
What I think is happening is that in searching this list of networks it
is taking too long and the DHCP Client, not seeing a valid network gives
out a self assigned address.
--
Clark Martin
Redwood City, CA, USA
Macintosh / Internet Consulting
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