[phast]

I have been trying on several different wireless networks to get my airport card to grab an IP from a wireless access point to no avail.

I have turned off all active ports except for the airport card. Every time I try to apply the new settings, it gets a "self assigned" IP addy of 169.x.x.x

The airport status in the menu bar shows the active network to which I am trying to connect, however the machine never gets an addy from the DHCP server. I've searched up and down for any related issues and never found anything. Any help appreciated.

[Camelot]

Are you sure there's a DHCP server on the network?

Are the base stations configured to talk to your machine via MAC Address lists? Many base stations are configured to only talk to specific MAC addresses. If your card isn't on the list, you're out of luck

[ghporter]

Depending on the type and brand of access point you're using, you may have to manually configure it to assign addresses in a manually selected range. Just about every box I've seen starts out with its DHCP server active by default, but that's also caused some problems for me-having two servers on the same local net is, er, frustrating, to say the least.

Make sure that there is exactly one active DHCP server on your network, and that is is assigning addresses in a range you want. How you do that depends on what sort of access point you're using. For example, I have a Linksys WAP11 access point, which doesn't assign IPs at all, so my router's (a Linksys BEFSR41) DHCP server is active and configured. No sweat-at least not any more.