Aside from the various “check this” and “check that” suggestions, I’d also suggest checking your firewall settings. If you’re behind NAT provided by the router, it’s safe to try turning off your machine’s software-based firewall briefly to see if that solves things. If it does, then you know that you need to configure your firewall properly.

In about 60% of the connectivity issues I’ve encountered, a misconfigured firewall was the point of failure.

I bought a base station tonight. Have a house filled with Macs.

Have Bellsouth DSL.

Connected DSL to Airport Extreme Basestation.

Configured all computers in the house.

Using the Airport Utility, configured the network.

Everything in the house is working fine.

Except…

The AMBER light, which indicates no network connection, still blinks on the Airport box. I’ve restarted the modem, Airport, etc. Still blinks. But everything in the house is working fine.

If I open the Airport Utility, it says ‘You have a base station that needs attention.” So I reconfigure it again, the software says “Congrats, you are up and running!” and all the Macs throughout the house work fine.

And the AMBER LIGHT is still blinking.

Ideas?

Thanks
Tom

As far as your configuraition is concerned. The way we go about doing this is. First hold the reset switch on the modem for 3 secs. this clears your username and password from the modem. Also do it on the router, so you know that does not have your username and passoword stored in it.

Now, before you go wireless wih your router, it is important that you are able to get online using an ethernet connection. this will let you isolate your problem. i.e. –> Connect your modem to your router with ethernet & connect your router to your computer with ethernet. If you are able to setup your internet connection with ethernet. You will know this is purely a wireless configuration issue.
A few tips on working around with wireless is :
1.Make sure distance is not an issue.
2.Disable all security and check if it works(disable WEP on the router)
3.Make sure your IP is set to DHCP(optained from the router rather than forced into the computer)

More info on setting up linksys with Verizon:
http://www.dslreports.com/faq/1372

If you need support with this, mail me your number. I’d be glad to help you with this.

Also, every time you connect a different device to the modem, disconnect the power to the modem for about a minute. This will reset its MAC address memory. Otherwise, as you found, it will have to time out.

Ex-Applecare veteran here. The way to get to tier 2 quickly is to refuse to agree with the tier 1 agent in any way. They have a limited time to “gain agreement” with the customer, and if they can’t they have to get T2 on the line. Politely but firmly disagree with everything, refuse to co-operate by doing stupid stuff, and call back if you get a T1 agent too obtuse to get it. The skill levels on T1 vary wildly, from die-hards to people who are looking up your issue in a stack of Macs for Idiots books.

Also, steve@apple.com can work wonders.

As a lot of people have said your initial problem appears to be your internal network setup, this is what allows your mac to connect to the Linksys via it’s default IP which should be 198.162.0.1 or similar. If you have tried what Josh suggested and plugged into the router directly and still had no joy then you need to reconfigure you IP config on your mac, check to make sure you are configured to just get an IP address via DHCP and do not have a hard coded IP in there. Once you have this all working and you can get to the Linksys web interface then you can configure the Wireless Access point SSID and security and also the net connection/WAN/External network config and then plug in the modem and try from there.

Let me know via email if you need any further info or help or MSN instant chat.

1. Verizon is not maintaining a hold on my equipment.
2. Verizon is not my ISP.
3. Verizon is merely the phone company. They supply the copper and switches.
4. My ISP is Speakeasy.
5. Speakeasy does not maintain a DHCP hold on any connected equipment.

A lousy phone company policy is not the source of the problem. The source of the problem remains unknown. I’ll post an update when the problem is resolved, if I learn anything of value.

Good luck.

You can always try ubuntu. It’s pretty painless these days to set up and when you have problems like this it will let you get some pretty detailed debugging information from the logs. Something difficult to get on Win or Mac OS’s.

And when the DSL/Cable/ISP tech hears what OS your running they automatically forward you to someone who knows what your doing. Their script is useless on my OS :-)

I’ve got a MacBook Pro which has been totally unreliable, prone to crashing and requires a wipe of the PDRAM every time I move to a new location (which given it’s a laptop, is fairly often). I’ve sent it back for repairs 3 times in six months to have the logic board replaced, RAM replaced, and finally, the techs threw up their hands and said it was the third party RAM I’d put in it (I HAVEN’t put anything in it – that was the Apple reseller I bought the machine from).

When I called Apple, their tech support couldn’t help me, they’re customer relations people picked up the phone for long enough to hang up, and then when I called back, their operator told me it was my fault I’d been disconnected.

Their products are shit. Their customer service smells just as bad. Depressingly, I still can’t quite bring myself to go back to windows.

For some reason when I moved to my current apartment, the wireless wouldn’t connect in the way you mentioned. I ran the setup assistant and it got me a connection, but it’s very exclusive. My wireless no longer works ANYWHERE else.