A friend with a Powerbook G4 with built-in Airport was recently in a location that has a Linksys wireless router (connected to cable modem). Another person in the same room with a laptop PC with wireless capability was able to get a signal and connect to the Internet with no problems.
My friend with the Powerbook was able to get a strong signal from the wireless router (three bars in the menu's airport icon), but could not connect to any internet sites. When she opened her Network preferences and checked TCP/IP settings she found that her assigned IP number (she had it set for DHCP assigning) was a 169.xxx.xxx.xxx number rather than the expected 192.168.xxx.xxx. Her Airport preferences are set to join a network automatically. She has previously used this same computer with the same settings and connected to the internet from other wireless routers with no problems. Anyone have any ideas on why a laptop PC would in this instance be able to get a correct IP assignment while a Powerbook could not? | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be August 24. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>
