Heh, just as I thought. The client that's associated with your base station is 7f:d9:00, whereas your Airport card is 32:22:95.

Unless you have another wifi client, someone else is associating with your base station, my dear. And you are associating with someone else's, named Zamina.

This doesn't seem possible since you say WPA2 is on, but the MAC addresses don't lie. Show us the Summary page of your router, and let's have a look at some of its specifics, like name for example. Please blur out or erase your WAN (external) IP though, before you post.

http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a3...st/wanbott.png

Also I no longer need a password to get to the router page :eek::eek:

I cant even seem to delete "Zamina"

Seriously am I best to reset my modem altogether??

This summary page doesn't tell us enough. Need to know its name, wifi security settings, etc.

Seems like a Jr. High kid has commandeered your router, probably to download pr0n without his parents knowing. They often set the password to keep other Jr. High kids out.

Ya. do a reset and start over with factory settings. Set the name, WPA, WPA password, cloaking, etc. The MAC address will tell you whether it's your machine that's connected.

Hi again...I did a reset Well it all looks ok except it doesnt work!!! I have security configured WPA2 Personal Shared Key on the router set up but when I try to connect it says encyrption methods dont match. I cant seem to find cloaking in the router config but will have another look.

Thanks Quantum.

First and foremost, set a password required to change settings in your base station. Then, in naming your network if you hadn't named it Zamina, that's the name of somebody else's network so name yours something different. Do not use your address, name or phone number, like some trusting souls do. I use star constellations. Set this name in your base station (router).

To connect, on the Mac click on the wifi icon in the menu-bar and hit Other. Enter the name you'd named your network in the base station, Security to WPA Personal, and the WPA2 password you'd set in the router. OK, and it should connect in a sec.

To make this permanent, open System Preferences|Network and select Location: Home. We are going to set up the networking profile you'll use at home. Elsewhere, the settings would be more, eh, promiscuous.

Airport|Configure.
By Default Join: Preferred Networks.

Hopefully your network is in Preferred, since you'd just joined it. If not, add it manually with +. If there are any networks there you don't recognize, by all means - them.

Options: Ask before joining, and Require admin password to Change wireless; all the rest unchecked. OK.

Go to the TCP/IP tab and Configure IPV4|DHCP. Configure IPV6: Off

And you should be in business.


To hide your network from garden-variety scanners you can cloak your router. Normally the router sends out a beacon every tenth of a second announcing its presence; but no one else needs to know it's there because you already do. This setting is usually a checkmark deal in wifi settings called something like Broadcast ssid, or Beacon, or something. Uncheck it, and your router stops advertising its services. Recommended.

Another MacBook, same problem
 

My new MacBook knew my wireless network was there but the Airport icon was grey and it wouldn't connect. Two XP-based computers and my daughter's MacBook can connect fine and the MAC addresses in the router DHCP table are correct. The network is unencrypted.

After hours on the phone to Apple they told me to enable Access Management on my router and put in the MAC address of the MacBook. This I did and it connected immediately. It continued to connect OK for four days. Now it is not working at all again.

Apple also got me to upgrade the OS to 10.4.10 and my Airport Extreme firmware. Airport is now type 0x168c,0x87, firmware 1.1.9.3, with an Intel 2.16GHz processor.

The MacBook that connects OK has a 1.5GHz Power PC G4 processor, a type 3.90.34.0.p16 Airport Extreme with 404.2 firmware and a 10.4.7 OS.

Something in the new MacBook stops it connecting. But it is strange that it worked for four days then stopped.

I have read various posts on this subject but should welcome some more advice on what to do.

First of all, MAC Access Management is worthless. I can use KisMac to sniff what MACs are communicating and forge mine easily.

Second, a grayed Airport means it sees the internal card, not the Wifi network.

Check the log in the router and see if it's giving any errors. If not, I can only help with WPA mode, and that's all you should run in.

Did you install the 802.11n Enabler in this MB? When you try and connect, go to Applications|Utilities|Console, and check the Console and System logs for related errors.

Just thought Id let you all know...everything works fine...EXCEPT it wont allow me to use a WPA2 PSK only a WPA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Anyone know why this is??

Cool.

Forgot what kind of base station, but some older firmwares muffed WPA2, since it'd been in development. Might get the latest firmware for it and flash it.

I have the latest firmware and I was sure WPA2 PSK worked previously :confused: