Re: Self assigned IP. What's that?

ray wrote:
> I've set up a wifi network for my daughter using a Belkin WAP hooked up
> to a Homechoice cable box. Using DHCP in network prefs my Powerbook auto
> connected, and just works.
> However her iBook, using DHCP with Panther, will not. The Airport card
> says it has a self assigned ip address and may not connect to the
> internet. It doesn't. It has a subnet mask of 255.255.0.0 and an ip
> address way outside the range allocated by the cable/router.
> And I can't see any way to change this. The subnet should be
> 255.255.255.0 of course.

The iBook is not receiving an ip address from the DHCP server and is
reverting to a self-assigned (and more or less completely useless) ip
address - probably 169.-something. A few things you could look at:

1. Does the wireless router limit the MAC addresses it will talk to ?
2. Try renewing the DHCP lease in the Networks Preferences.
3. If that doesn't work, you could try setting it as dhcp with a
manually assigned address.

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