airport card "switched off" on powerbook

[spitty27]

ok, i've never seen this before. this card is just about 1 year old, maybe if i hurry i can get a replacement. it was working perfectly normal up till now. i installed tiger, everything worked fine, then after a reboot the airport card kind of died. up in the menubar i have the airport menuitem but there are no bars, just the slice of pie with nothing in it, and when you click it, theres a grey item that says "AirPort: Off" and an active one that says "Open Network Preferences..." which brings me to Network but i dont recieve any information there (not even ethernet). I've unplugged the card, turned on, turned off, replugged, and still no go. i really dont understand. i know theres a possibility of shutting off the card, but you can always turn it back on. it seems like tiger may have messed with something but i dont know what to do or how to fix it. any ideas?

powerbook specs in sig

 

[spitty27]

right now i swapped cards with my sisters ibook to see if the card itself is messed up. hers works. if mine works in her computer, then its just tiger and my specific laptop. if hers works in mine, then i guess ill go get a replacement. if hers doesnt work in mine, then its definitely tiger. i dont have panther still installed on the pismo.

edit: my card works perfectly fine in the ibook. guess its just a tiger issue. thanks for your help. might as well just revert back to panther or reformat once more and give more partitions

 

[spitty27]

update: i feel realllllly silly now. i think our netgear messed up a bit, and it disallowed all free connections and requires the MAC address to allow that computer to surf. i know you find the MAC in system profiler but it crashes on the powerbook, so does anyone know the command to find it using terminal?

UPDATE: well, ifconfig in terminal showed the MAC address, and i added it to the netgear, but its still not letting me surf the network. any ideas?

btw: i cant hold down shift and "d" in safari thats reaaaaaally weird. ive repaired permissions but wont budge, i have to hold down caps lock to get a capital "d", and thats the only character thats doing that to me..

ok, i swear this is the last update: i reformatted, and now its working fine. thanks for listening (?)