10.4.11 wireless networking issues for Intel iMac

After being prompted by software update to upgrade to 10.4.11 from 10.4.10, I did so, but found my computer stuck at the grey screen upon restart. I have since done the archive + reinstall of 10.4.4, which allowed me to onnect to my wireless network again (other Intel and PPC Macs are able to access the same network). I then downloaded and installed the 10.4.11 combo package as some have suggested on other posts throughout this forum; however the problem has returned.
Has anyone else had a similar problem and/or does anyone have a solution other than reinstalling 10.4.4 and upgrading to 10.4.10 again?
Cheers!

Mizraith,
I have the same setup as you (the WRT300N router & a macbook pro (sept 2007). I have been investigating these issues for a while now. First, to be quiet honest, this router is a crappy piece of hardware. Simply google the product name along with interesting keywords such as 'vanish' 'problem' 'issue', and make your own conclusion. Not to mention that the product has had at least 3 hardware revisions: it pretty much says it all.
Here are my takes on this, I have had 2 different problems:
1) First problem, the ESSID sometimes vanishs for a while. It is not macbook specific since I have observed that on my playstation 3 too. The only solution I have found to deal with this problem is to get to the wireless configuration of the router and change the radio band/wide channel, etc to something else. Then it'll work for some time before the problem reappears. I have contacted linksys tech support, and I strongly suspect that the support for N-mode is extremely incomplete, but of course they are not affirmative on this, otherwise they'd do a recall.
2) Second problem, the signals gets weak and the connection just freezes. Not sure it is macos specific, but the fact is that with macos 10.4.10, when it happened, simply setting aiport off -> on used to be OK. Since I upgraded to macos 10.4.11, the system will then appear to be connected to the AP with a good signal, but the NIC will be assigned a self-assigned ip address (169.x). This also happend after putting the system in sleep. It seams to happen more often on battery mode on my macbook. Manually rerunning the dhcp client does not help. Solution? You guess it, the r.e.b.o.o.t.
The router may be an unstable product, but there are some obvious regressions in the wifi support of macos 10.4.11, at least, in error handling. Here again, a simple google search for '10.4.11 wifi' with 'problem' 'issue' should convince you.
I have contacted the tech support of Apple regarding that issue. I didn't even expected to have a magical solution, but at least, some hints or even a mere acknowledgment. They never replied to my mail.
Let me know if you have some news on that issue, and good luck!

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