Airport no longer working... giving up hope

[aislinnx]

Ok so I brought the laptop to a friend's house and to my shock it worked perfectly on their network. Wish I had done that before the erase and install. Any ideas where to go from here to get it to work again on my network?

[djackmac]

Originally Posted by aislinnx

Wish I had done that before the erase and install. Any ideas where to go from here to get it to work again on my network?

Yeah, definitely got to take some advice given here with a grain of salt in regards to listening to that advice from that post. That is an absolute last resort, especially without a good backup.

Where I would go now is check your routers configurations. First of all check for newer firmware. This should be a function built right into the routers config page if its not a really old router. Otherwise perhaps the router has an ACL (Access Control List) set up on it. Or perhaps another special configuration is the router has a very short range of available ip addresses. These options mentioned here a usually more advanced settings so there is a good chance these things won't apply to you. One thing I would check is your routers security settings such as it being WEP, WPA, or WPA2. I know WEP doesn't play nice with newer versions of OSX. Worst case scenario there should be something in your routers config page to backup your settings. Once your settings are backed up, perform a hard reset (directions for hard resets very by router but can be found on the manufacturers web-site). This will bring the router back to factory default settings. After doing that I would just leave the router at the defaults to see if it connects. If it connects fine that way try to restore the settings from the backup file or enter them back in manually and see if it still connects fine.

[aislinnx]

Ok, so I got home after it working on another network and logged on to the routers config page on another computer. I plugged in my own laptop in the meantime and... it worked......

?

This was before I got to the stage of restoring the routers factory settings, which I have since done.

I am of course very happy that itys working, but very confused about how this happened without the powers of magic!!

[kisuke3]

I agree with DJ, better yet before you go out. Boot from the mac os x install dvd and once you are in the welcome screen after selecting the language. You will see a wifi signal there, try connecting from there.

Try disabling the wireless password, see if that works for you. What kind of mac are you using?