[Cograt]

Hi there,

Today has been a real bad day! Long story short, slept through my alarm and missed a client party, got locked out of my apartment for the entire afternoon in just shorts + t-shirt (it is winter in NZ - not fun) and, to top it all off, my brand spanking new macbook lost it's connection to the linksys router and refuses to connect. Gah!

I am brand new to the world of the mac so I am struggling a great deal on what to do. I've read lots of threads on people having grief with linksys and their macbooks but I haven't really been able to find anything that will fix my problem.

Up until this morning I had no problems with my mac's connection. The router is a linksys WAG54G v.2 and the firmware version is 1.00.19. My mac is currently running OS X v. 10.4.10 which I assume I updated to when I started the mac for the first time a few days ago.

It all started when I tried to reboot the router because the connection was giving me some gyp. After it had rebooted I found I could no longer connect to the router from my mac. I powered up my PC laptop and found I had no issues with connecting from there.

I do not believe that it is the airport card inside my laptop that is causing problems as I am able to connect to a random nearby DLINK network (it has no security - rather silly).

I've tried a great many of the suggestions on this forum and on others but none seem to have done the trick. I'd be extremely grateful if someone could provide a solution. I am an utter newb when it comes to networks and macs so I really have no idea what to do. I have tried manually entering in the DHCP settings, powering on and off the router, creating a new location and setting up the connection again from fresh, deleting all the keys held within the keychain and restarting...and so forth.

Please help me before I cry!!!

[Cograt]

I read on the apple support forums about a lot of people having issues with 10.4.10 and their connection being dodgy. Apparently Apple has suggested reinstalling back to the previous version of OSX 10.4.09 to fix the issue.

I have tried this just now and I am still unable to connect.

Has anyone else given this a try and had any luck?

I'm going to try and reset the router and see what happens. May the force be with me ...

[ghporter]

Welcome to our forums! Wrap up in a nice blanket and try this: Delete the current location your computer uses for your wireless connection and create a new one. If you're using the Automatic location, simply create a new location. Make sure all your settings, like security password and such, are properly entered. This works a lot of the time. Give it a shot and let us know how things go.

And again, welcome!

[Cograt]

Thanks for the reply. That was one of the first things I tried and it didn't work. I've tried zapping the PRAM but, again, no luck.

I'd appreciate any other ideas because I am at my wit's end. After all I've heard about how reliable macs are and then to get stuck with something like this...its really left a sour taste in mouth.

[Cograt]

Well, after much tears, cursing, more tears, an excessive and unhealthy amount of cursing I have finally restored access to my linksys router.

I'd like to say it was all me but I suspect that unless the router heard my foul language and threats and decided to play nice, it was probably reseting absolutely every single setting on both mac and router that did the job. Just one of those mysteries, I guess. I'd feel happier if I had an explanation as to what went wrong or even some inkling on how to fix it if it ever happens again but ... hey ho!

Good luck to everyone else with problems. I hope your solutions are a lot less painful than mine!