[ahollywoodcraig]

I just purchased an Airport Extreme base station and I hooked up the ethernet cable from my cable modem to the wan port on the base station as instructed, and then hooked up the ethernet cable from my G5 to the lan port.
I followed the instructions in the book exactly and my Wireless macbook (2.0 C2D) connects to the internet fine. The problem is that my wired G5 does not connect to the internet. Has anyone else experienced this? if anyone can help me through this I would be forever greatful!
Thanks in advance,
Craig

[SWFan]

1. Try connecting your G5 via its Ethernet port directly to your net connection to verify that its Ethernet port works.

if that works then

2. Turn off your MacBook's wireless and connect it to the AE via Ethernet and see if you can connect to the Internet.

If #1 works and #2 fails then it sounds to me like you need to return the AE as its Ethernet port may be borked.

[ahollywoodcraig]

I did Step 1 and it worked fine. Step 2 worked as well. i still can't connect with the wired g5. any other suggestions?

[Macola]

Try rebooting the AE?

[ahollywoodcraig]

I did that too because something happened while using the airport admin utility that caused the macbook not to connect either. Rebooting the airport extreme fixed this, but still no connecting with the G5. If someone could help me with step by step instructions on what to do and where to look I'd really appreciate it. I've got this topic posted in two other forums and still no luck.

[ahollywoodcraig]

This problem was solved with a restart (I know I'm an idiot). thank you for your help!
Craig

[ghporter]

What did you restart? Sometimes restarting the AirPort Base can fix this sort of problem, while sometimes it's at the computer end and all it takes is a restart of the computer.