Just got around to installing 10.4.6 on my 14" iBook G4 1.2 GHz. As always, I didn't do the "patch" update, I grabbed the combo install, as the patches always seems to degrade performance little by little.
Rebooted after install, everything works fine, except Airport does not work. It says connected, it has the correct IP address, Internet Connect says signal strength is 100%, but I've got no network connectivity.
Pinging my router says "host is down" (although sometimes it says "no route to host" first). The wireless router sees the iBook attached when wireless is active, and like I said the iBook gets an IP, so I am leaning towards this being a software problem.
Tried to nmap my subnet and the only host it saw was the iBook.
Tried repair permissions (I know), re-installing the combo update, and finally installing the patch update over the combo update.
While attempting to re-connect to my wireless network, the following shows up in /var/log/system.log:
Code:
Apr 19 18:25:22 bookie kernel[0]: AirPort: Link Active: "Jocasta" - 00095bcd9a38 - chan 11
Apr 19 18:25:24 bookie launchd: Server 0 in bootstrap 1103 uid 0: "/usr/sbin/lookupd"[264]: exited abnormally: Hangup
Apr 19 18:25:24 bookie configd[36]: posting notification com.apple.system.config.network_change
Apr 19 18:25:24 bookie lookupd[269]: lookupd (version 369.5) starting - Wed Apr 19 18:25:24 2006
The interesting thing is that lookupd is actually getting restarted when switching networks, from what I can tell it is not crashing. (The new lookupd has different process id than the last.)
Switching to ethernet works fine.
My router is a Netgear WGR614v4.
I have *never* had any kind of problem with my iBook since the day I bought it. I've owned probably 10 Macs in my life and dozens of PCs, but this iBook has been, bar none, the most reliable computer I've ever known. This is really kind of upsetting.
Does anyone have any thoughts?
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