Netgear and my mac, and a suggestion to reinstall OSX
Newbie to all things mac.
I have a new Macbook pro15 using OSX 6.5 I have been on to suupport twice as the airport can see my network, but keeps forgetting the network settings and defaulting to the self assigned IP address. support have walked me through some stuff with the file preferences and removed the network and started from scratch. This works and the network settings are remebered even when the machine is shut down.....unless it is shut down for more than about an hour, then I cant connect to the internet!! Super frustrating.
I have had a reinstall suggested, but I felt it seemed like a way fo getting me off the phine to be honest. Anyway I have a WD external drive and need to reformat it but there is a lot images I need to save. If I burn these to disk from a windows format will the macbook read them when the drive is reformated. Likewise will the PC i have be able to read them from the mac formatted hard drive? Lots of Q's but they are all liknked together.....
Simonpc1423 wrote:
the airport can see my network, but keeps forgetting the network settings and defaulting to the self assigned IP address.
Presuming these aren't the same steps you've already been told to do, it might help to reset the connection settings on your Mac using these steps one at a time until it works again:
1) Use the AirPort menu bar item to turn AirPort off, then on again.
2) In the Network panel of System Preferences delete the AirPort item from the left column, then add it back.
3) In the same panel as (2), define a new location and see if you can make that work.
4) In the same panel, select the AirPort connection item, click the "Advanced" button, select the "TCP/IP" tab, then click "Renew DHCP Lease".
5) In the folder /Library/Preferences ( not <yourhomefolder>/Library/Preferences), move the folder SystemConfiguration onto the Desktop, then restart your computer. See if you can now make your AirPort connection work.
They may not help, but they'll only take a couple of minutes to try. Before you try these, note all your network settings, because the latter steps will destroy them.
Also, in the Network panel of System Preferences, if you select the AirPort connection item and click on the "Advanced" button, have you selected the option to "Remember networks this computer has joined"?
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