Are you getting a self assigned IP adderss starting with 169

by ziptie - 3/19/12 7:45 PM

In Reply to: G4 Airport help by rcbuitron

If so, this can be caused by a bug in Leopard that affects a lot of G4s, or from a weak wifi signal, by borrowing a neighbors unsecured wifi.

If it isn't the later, there is a Terminal command that can fix it.

Type the follow command first to access root control:

sudo su

then hit the return key

It will then prompt you for your password. Enter your password and hit enter.

then it should say something like "sh-3.2#" now type the following command

ipfw flush

then hit the return key - it will then ask you 'Are you sure' or something like that. simply hit the Y key. Thats it!

Once you have done that, type in exit then hit the return key to exit out of root.

then close out the terminal program.