On Feb 28, 2010, at 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. > > The other issue is the trackpad. It all of a sudden gets jittery, and > the mouse pointer starts jumping all over the place and gets very hard > to control. Restarting usually takes care of it, until the jitters > comes back. I haven't tried an external mouse, so I'm not sure if it's > a trackpad issue or a software issue. > > Now for the specifics: the Pismo is a 500Mhz, with 1 gig of RAM and an > Airport card, running 10.4.11. My home network is based on a b/g > Linksys router with basic WEP encryption. > > Thanks in advance, > > Felix > FWIW I can only get my AirPort /b cards to work with out password encryption. So I use a /g card Sonnet Cardbus unit. Trackpad sounds like hardware to me. John Carmonne Yorba Linda USA
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