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spitty27 · Jul 2, 2004, 08:40 PM

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

chabig · Jul 2, 2004, 08:48 PM

There ought to be a menu item to turn it back on. There should also be a button in Internet Connect to do the same thing.

Finally, you can just boot back into Panther and do it.

Chris

spitty27 · Jul 2, 2004, 08:51 PM

its greyed out i cannot turn it on. i will check internet connect, 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 · 09:16 PM

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?

spitty27 · Jul 3, 2004, 01:14 AM

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

Person Man · Jul 3, 2004, 05:38 PM

Originally posted by spitty27:
its greyed out i cannot turn it on. i will check internet connect, 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

What's that? Do I hear someone asking for support for an issue introduced by installing TIGER (i.e. prerelease software) on their machine? Isn't that against the rules of this board?

If you're a legitimate developer using the prerelease, then ask for help through the legitimate channels. Not here.

spitty27 · Jul 3, 2004, 07:34 PM

if you read through all the posts, mister, you would have realized that i wasnt sure if it was software or hardware related, but thanks for the accusation.

vmarks · Jul 3, 2004, 10:03 PM

(LAW AND ORDER voice)

Since it's Tiger, if you were given it by Apple then the only proper place to discuss any part of it (even if you think it's hardware) is the Apple board they set up specifically for the people they have given Tiger to.

Discussing it here, even if you think that it might just be your hardware, is a violation of the non-disclosure you would have signed with Apple, had they given you Tiger.

If you didn't get Tiger from Apple, and cannot use their discussion forums set up for it, well, it's not something we can help you with either. The only answer we REALLY know to work is, boot from a drive with Panther on it (firewire works just fine) because at least with Panther, we know what to expect. With pre-release software we do not.

Heck, even with software updates, we don't always know what to expect. See the Airport updates that came and then were quickly followed by a point release update to fix problems introduced by the earlier update. Or the 10.2.8 fiasco. Fortunately it doesn't happen often enough that I can recall more examples than those.

Lastly, this isn't even a PowerBook topic, it's a Networking topic.
But even then we wouldn't have any good basis for answering, as Tiger isn't legitimately available for anyone to discuss.