Tiger and Airport problem

[frez]

Very frustrating .. hope someone can help!

I just installed Tiger last night over a 10.3.9 Panther installation on my Powerbook, which I've been using successfully to connect via Airport with my Linksys router for months.

I can no longer visit any websites after installing Tiger.

Sites don't load up or error with "Document contains no data".

I can connect fine with my other computers on the network.

Did Tiger kill my Internet access?

 

[Applespider]

Shortening the computer's name worked where someone was having trouble with a Dlink router. I'm not sure if the same might apply to Linksys

 

[patseguin]

Shortening the computer's name worked where someone was having trouble with a Dlink router. I'm not sure if the same might apply to Linksys

Yep, that's exactly what I did too and it solved the problem. I would go into Sharing preferences and change the computer name to something short and without special characters or spaces. Reboot the computer and you should be golden. In fact, I think if you just wait a minute without rebooting it will repair itself and go online.

 

[frez]

my router's name is only 5 letters long (one word) and my
computer's name is only 6 letters long (one word).

i tried connecting via the ethernet port and had the same problem.

it only started after installing tiger 🙁

suggestions?

 

[frez]

solved!

in case anyone else is having this problem:

removing the plist files in:

/Library/Preferences

solved it (got a hint from a post about a user having a problem with Dlink router on www.macfixit.com).

not sure exactly which plist file is causing the problem .. but I'm finally back up and running.

 

[mac-er]

I am having a problem where Tiger is not consistently auto-connecting to my Airport network after sleep (sometimes I have to restart to get it to connect).

Anyone else having this problem?

 

[Nastard]

Same problem here - Airport doesn't reconnect when I wake it up. It's the only real problem I have, which is nice, but I'd like to get it fixed.

 

[Horrortaxi]

My signal strength fluctuates a lot--even after I boosted transmitter output on my AEBS (was 10%, now 50%). I thought it might be due to my new PowerBook, which doesn't get as good a signal as my iBook did, but I tried the iBook and got the same result. Seems to be a Tiger thing.

 

[frez]

Bad news.

Back onto the original subject, the pref corruption returned after I rebooted 🙁

Deleting the plist files and setting up Airport again fixed it .. but it'd get ridiculous to have to do that everytime the machine starts up! 😱

Anyone have more permanent fix??