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airport off, will not turn on
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Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: santa monica, CA
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Running 10.3.4 on relatively new Powerbook G4. Turned Airport off while on airplane. The menu item to turn it on appears as it normally does. When I select it, airport does not turn on. It ignores my command. It is not greyed out. Rebooted, no change in behavior.
Any suggestions appreciated.
Bill
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Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Memphis, Tn. USA
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Originally posted by WSE:
Running 10.3.4 on relatively new Powerbook G4. Turned Airport off while on airplane. The menu item to turn it on appears as it normally does. When I select it, airport does not turn on. It ignores my command. It is not greyed out. Rebooted, no change in behavior.
Any suggestions appreciated.
Bill
Check under "about this Mac" and see if card is not recoginized...... if not turn power off and check to see if card is seated properly. Could have been bumped loose in transit!
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Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: santa monica, CA
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Originally posted by romeosc:
Check under "about this Mac" and see if card is not recoginized...... if not turn power off and check to see if card is seated properly. Could have been bumped loose in transit!
Thanks for your suggestions - keep them coming! I booted the computer off an external hard drive and airport worked normally, proving it is not a hardware problem.
While booted off the external drive, I ran Disk First Aid and Repair Permissions and nothing unusual found. Reset power manager and PRAM, too.
Booted back on internal hard drive and still airport will not turn on. I searched for all plist files with "airport" in it, found two, trashed them both and rebooted, and still doesn't work.
Bill
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Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Live at the BBQ
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While airport is turned on (or supposed to be on), go to "Location" under the apple menu and choose "Network Preferences." If your Airport connection isn't active in the network status panel, hit configure to find out what isn't set up properly. Under the Airport tab next to "By default, join:" select "Automatic" unless you know the specific network you want to join. In the TCP/IP tab, "Configure IPv4" should be set to DHCP.
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Join Date: Nov 1999
Location: Madison, WI
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Hmm, any chance you are using Tiger? (this is why I un-installed it)
-Owl
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Junior Member
Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: santa monica, CA
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Originally posted by himself:
While airport is turned on (or supposed to be on), go to "Location" under the apple menu and choose "Network Preferences." If your Airport connection isn't active in the network status panel, hit configure to find out what isn't set up properly. Under the Airport tab next to "By default, join:" select "Automatic" unless you know the specific network you want to join. In the TCP/IP tab, "Configure IPv4" should be set to DHCP.
BINGO!!!!
Configure IPv4 was set to "Manual" -- don't know how that happened. But as soon as I set it to DHCP, airport immediately turned on.
T H A N K Y O U !!!!!
Bill
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