Connectivity is making me mental!

[haumana]

I have a MacBook Pro, just bought it in June. I've been having wireless connectivity issues. The airport will tell me that I'm connected, but if I go deeper into configuration it tells me that it could not obtain an IP address. At first I thought it was my router, but all the other wireless stuff seems to tap into the internet just fine.

Then I noticed that if I fire up Fusion, Windows picks-up on the internet just fine, and after that so will with the Mac side. What's going on with this? It used to happen every once in a while, now it happens each and every time I shutdown and start up.

Would I be better off assigning it a static IP? I know that I'm not the only one that has this issue, a few other friends and family members are having the same problem and we are all totally stumped.

Anyone got any ideas? I'm running Leopard, Fusion w/Windows XP, Linksys WRT160Nv2.

 

[macrem]

It seems many people posting exotic issues have Windows installed. I have a pure OS X machine and have never had any issue like this.

 

[haumana]

Actually it started to do this and I thought having Fusion w/XP was causing the problem so I completely reformatted and reinstalled OS X. Still had the problem. At the moment, running XP in Fusion almost seems the only way to fix this - but that is not an acceptable workaround for me.

 

[cathyy]

I see no possible explanation on how a Windows installation on a seperate partition could possibly affect OSX.

 

[haumana]

I see no possible explanation on how a Windows installation on a seperate partition could possibly affect OSX.

That's what I was thinking too. But quite honestly, opening up windows in Fusion is the only way that I can get the Mac side to wireless to work. It's such a strange thing.

 

[e12a]

have all the updates been installed for OS X?

 

[haumana]

yes.

 

[macrem]

does router have the latest firmware?

 

[haumana]

yes. (sigh)

 

[OmahaGTP]

Do you have a hidden SSID that you type in manually?

I've had issues with that in the past.

 

[haumana]

nope. SSID is broadcasting.

 

[kennyli]

Same problem is happening to my PowerBook G4 too!

I have to click the Airport icon and than select "Join Other Network". Than, input the router name, password again manually!

Try it and see it works or not!

 

[ACiB708]

Try opening you web browser, type 192.168.1.1, enter your password, go to wireless settings or alike, then to advanced, and try changing your SSID, choose WPA password, type in a custom one, chose SSID broadcasting, b,g,n available and then save the settings. Go to your router and press the little reset button. Go to your Mac and connect. That should work. If not, then I have no clue, contact Linksys or Apple.

 

[macrem]

I'd also try using an app like iStumbler to help set your router to a channel that's not in use by other routers.