[slvrkitty]

I have a new MacBook Pro (15" 2.16Ghz if it matters) and a Linksys wireless router that are having trouble connecting. I know the airport is working properly.. I can get on to the D-link wireless that I have at work no problem. At home is another story. I can connect when I plug it in with an ethernet cable however from the start the airport could not connect. Through a lot of online research (and some of the threads on here were quite helpful) I have gotten to point where I CAN connect to the wireless network successfully. But the internet doesn't work. Airport is connected to "Linksys" (I have tried calling it other things as well) and it says it has full signal strength but when I try to do anything with this connection it acts as if it's not there. I have tried changing the wireless channel, allowing just my MAC address in any place I found to allow it, updating the firmware, and just about any other suggestion that I have found online (seems i'm not the only one with this problem) but nothing seem to be working. I am using WPA security currently but in my frustration even disabled all security at one point. Still no luck.

So I am at a loss at this point. I am open to any suggestions that anyone has. PLEASE HELP ME!!! :-/

[Waragainstsleep]

Is your software up to date? There was an Airport update not so long ago.
Since your MBP works elsewhere, have you tested any other wireless clients with the linksys at home? It could simply be a faulty unit.
You might try a new user account in case there is a rogue setting somewhere.

[brassplayersrock]

i too am getting this, but with my tipb. very annoying when my dad is on the verge of switching and sees me having difficulties getting connected, and comes over to his pc and says "well, my pc can use it". i even called linksys, and they tried to help but to no avail. had to eventually just hard wire to the thing. most annoying thing is, it would work for a night wirelessly and then the next and so on it wouldn't. *shrug*


alex


edit:
oh, and this has only started after the .9 update, before everything "just worked"

[olePigeon]

Linksys has the worst support when it comes to anything not Windows.

[Chuckit]

In addition to checking your software, check the router's firmware. I had one that seemed DOA but apparently just had some crappy old firmware. Worked fine when I updated that.

[PORTALEs]

Hi, If you use OpenWrt firmware you need install the "nas" package.


sorry for my bad english.

good luck

[newyorkdoug]

I visited this page. It solved my problem in 5 minutes. I hope it works for you:

How to Set Up a Linksys Router with Mac OS X | Garrick Van Buren .com

[tavin64]

Linksys routers especially the wrt54g series have issues with airport extreme cards. The reason why you are connected but the internet is not working is because the DNS on the router dropped. Something about the airport cards causing the DNS to drop on the router. DNS is what basically translates when you type Google to an internet address so that it can connect. This is a common issue with the routers. I went through 2 wrt54gs (2 different revisions) and i kept having the same issues. In the end I just got tired of dealing with it and just bought a netgear router and have had 0 problems ever since. I talked to both apple and linksys about the issue but all they do is blame each other.

[ghporter]

There has seemed to be some oddness in the way newer AirPort cards (as some of the A+B+G and A+B+G+N cards in newer notebooks) have interacted with a variety of wireless routers, not just Linksys. The "make sure your firmware is up to date" (for the router) and "make sure your AirPort software is up to date" advice is good. One member here recently was having a horrible time with connecting until he ran a new AirPort update and that fixed it nicely... Others have fixed this sort of problem through updating their router's firmware.

One thing to keep in mind is that, if you're using the default DHCP address assignment for everything, the time the address is assigned can make a difference. Let me explain: let's say you have a wireless PC and a wireless Mac on the same "Brand X" wireless router. You connect with the PC and everything works fine. A few minutes later, you turn on your Mac (or more likely wake it up), and it won't connect at all. "Problem with supporting Macs?" NO. In between connecting the PC and trying to connect the Mac, the Brand X router's firmware stopped properly handling DHCP-it either lost its IP list or stopped accepting requests. This is not theory-I have had this happen in real life in the very room I'm in right now, just a foot away from my router.

RULE #1 OF HOME NETWORK TROUBLESHOOTING: Turn EVERYTHING off, wait a timed two minutes, then start turning things on from the broadband input (almost always your modem), waiting a timed one minute for each device to initialize before going further. This includes turning off your Mac. When a Mac goes to sleep, the AirPort card goes into what I'll call an "indeterminate state." Some cards notice the sleep state of the computer, while others don't, so it's important to consistently deal with the card's initialization, and turning the computer off is guaranteed to completely initialize the card. If the issue is not cleared up by this process, then start looking at where the problem FIRST shows up, and WHAT that problem is.