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The Mac was not JUST WORKING very well tonight. I upgraded to 10.5.2, because I always like to have the newest and best of everything. It's why I'm so popular with women. Once the computer had rebooted, though, I couldn't connect to the Internet. So, start the usual troubleshooting: use my iPhone to try to connect to the wifi. Not working. Try to connect to 192.168.0.1 (the modem) in a browser. Not working. Try to ping 192.168.0.1 in Terminal -- and that did work, oddly enough. Same behavior from 192.168.1.1 (the wifi router). So, unplug everything, reboot it all, plug it all back in ... and still nothing. I should mention that our DSL modem is a Siemens SpeedStream 4100, and our wifi router is a Linksys WRT54GS with "SpeedBoost," which I like to call "SpoodBeast." Why am I mentioning all this? For the benefit of Googlers. (Hopefully, you found this page by Googling Linksys or OSX, and not by Googling "spoodbeast.") Anyway, so next I did some recabling and bypassed the router, jacking the modem directly into the iMac. That worked fine -- okay, so the problem is the router. Reboot again; unplug and replug; nothing was working. I could now connect to the router just fine in Firefox, but beyond that, the Internet wasn't Internetting. Then I tried to connect to the router in Safari. When I attempted to access the router via Safari, the app popped up an "enter password" dialog, with an option to retain the password in the keychain. Okay, sure -- I entered the password, and saved it to my keychain. And then suddenly I heard Google Notifier chiming and Adium logging in to my Yahoos. Oooooookay ... so did the 10.5.2 update somehow affect my keychain, preventing all of the apps on the computer from accessing the router until I reminded it of the router's password? That doesn't make any sense. And why would that have affected my iPhone? What, as they say, the fuck? I don't know. But everything is finally working again. So ... hoorah.
February 11, 2008 9:08 PM |
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February 11, 2008 23:43
so.. at the end of the day... your router is still fuxxored :(
February 12, 2008 12:10
Well, as it turned out, AT&T was fuxxored, according to the tech support lady I wound up talking to. My troubleshooting just coincided with their service fluctuations.
February 13, 2008 03:36
Apparently a lot of people are having issues.
http://www.tuaw.com/2008/02/12/early-10-5-2-reports-some-users-having-wireless-issues/
February 16, 2008 22:41
If you are using a Linksys WRT54G router, be sure to download and install the latest version of the firmware. To be able to download the firmware you can connect directly to your modem using your PPeO login info provided by your Internet service provider.
http://www.linksys.com (in the download section, select your specific router model number. it is written under your router. Mine is WRT54G v.5)
To install that firmware update, you should connect your Mac to the back of the router using an Ethernet cable (major bug: I wasn’t even able to access the control panel of the router using air port ????? ) Select the administration Tab / Firmware upgrade. Select the “.bin” file that you downloaded from the linksys website and press “Upgrade”. Disconnect the Ethernet cable between your computer and the router, select your wireless network as you usually do and it should work fine. Probably even better than before.
It totally solves the problem for me.
Hope it can solve many peoples problem, especially the non power user that probably want to kill somebody right now !@#$%?&*()