I've searched the forums and found different variations of this issue but none exactly as mine. After trying many of the suggestions in other posts, I thought I'd post and hope someone has some ideas.
I have a MBP (2.2 ghz, C2D, 4gb ram) running leopard with all the latest software updates. When I connect at home, to a linksys router with WPA2 encryption, my connection works perfectly. However, in the last month or so, everytime I take my computer anywhere else, I can't connect. I can't connect wirelessly or via to my work network. I would say that's a problem of the network but other computers work fine. I have tried other public wifi networks and I can't connect either. The message is always that airport can't grab an IP so I get the "self-assigned IP" status. I just tried connecting through Ethernet to a friend's cable modem and the same message appeared. Overall I've tried about 10-15 networks and none work. The kicker is when I boot under bootcamp into windows XP I can connect wirelessly to any public network.
I have tried reparing permissions, deleting preference files, deleting all my preferences under network connections. Nothing has worked. Anyone care to take a shot at it? I guess my last shot is to reinstall OS X but I don't feel like wiping out everything on my computer.
Thanks for any help and sorry for the long post.
-J
I have a MBP (2.2 ghz, C2D, 4gb ram) running leopard with all the latest software updates. When I connect at home, to a linksys router with WPA2 encryption, my connection works perfectly. However, in the last month or so, everytime I take my computer anywhere else, I can't connect. I can't connect wirelessly or via to my work network. I would say that's a problem of the network but other computers work fine. I have tried other public wifi networks and I can't connect either. The message is always that airport can't grab an IP so I get the "self-assigned IP" status. I just tried connecting through Ethernet to a friend's cable modem and the same message appeared. Overall I've tried about 10-15 networks and none work. The kicker is when I boot under bootcamp into windows XP I can connect wirelessly to any public network.
I have tried reparing permissions, deleting preference files, deleting all my preferences under network connections. Nothing has worked. Anyone care to take a shot at it? I guess my last shot is to reinstall OS X but I don't feel like wiping out everything on my computer.
Thanks for any help and sorry for the long post.
-J
