Dan, What a coincidence! I spent last week visiting Nelson Helm. We had exactly this problem. Two Netgear routers, one G3 iBook, one G4 iBook, one iMac, and a Sony Vaio. The G4 iBook found both routers and thought it was online, but it wasn't. The Sony Vaio's owner had used the network all summer, went away for a week and used a different network (his own), and when he came back he had the same problem. Both were able to connect wirelessly to the public library's Lynksys with no problem.
It took us 4 days to figure it out, but what solved the problem was shutting everything down and rebuilding. We powered up the cable modem first, then one router, then the second router. At this point, the Viao and the G3 iBook both got online. The G4 iBook needed an ethernet cable to one of the routers to get the signal correctly. The iMac suddenly had the problem, when it hadn't before. I think we forgot to turn the iMac back on in its proper place in the line-up. Nelson will have to let us know whether restarting fixes it. When I got home I had to do the same routine on my cable modem, router, and two Macs. Go figure. Alex Whitman (I tell people Nelson is my uncle.) On Aug 29, 2004, at 5:07 PM, Dan Crutcher wrote: > 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. | 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>
