I have a fairly annoying network problem I am hoping some of the wizards around here might know a solution to.
I have a small network at home, with a Billion ADSL Router/Modem, an iBook, a 12" Powerbook G4, a Power Mac 5500, and nameless PC. It's the Powerbook that's been misbehaving. When first started up, it accesses the network fine. But after going to Sleep (either user-activated or automatic) and waking again, it is unable to access the network at all. It cannot even load the web-configuration page for the router/modem, or ping the other computers. None of the other computers experience anything like this. (The problem also exists when connected via a crossover cable to a PC at another location. Works fine, until the Powerbook goes to sleep, at which point it's as though it is as though the cable has been unplugged.) After waking, Netstat in Network Utility reports either a smaller Routing table compared to previously or none at all. The "Wake for network administrator access" option in the Energy Saver preference panel is turned on. The update from 10.2.4 to 10.2.5 didn't change anything. I haven't tried reinstalling OS X yet. Examinations of ps output prior to and after Sleeping indicates that lookupd and slpd, are being relaunched (different PIDs and commands). Also, it shows that nmbd is being terminated and not relaunched (though I have no idea why it would be relevant). And it's now beyond the very meagre networking knowledge I have. A quick look through kbase.info.apple.com didn't turn up anything useful. Generally a restart puts things right -- but not without frustrating me a *lot*. Thanks, and 'Help!' ;) -Ry [EMAIL PROTECTED]
