Wireless Connection Problems
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So you aren't even connecting to the base station. You have to approach this stuff in the correct order...
For a start, connect to the base station using an ethernet cable and turn off WPA and WEP so the WiFI network is open. Only try to turn wifi security (WPA or WEP) back on again after you have successfully:
- connected to the WiFi network
- the base station has assigned a (local) IP address to your Mac
- you've successfully conected from your Mac to the internet.Your base station will be assigning a local IP address to your Mac (like 192.168.0.2). It might be fixed (if you want it to be) or usually you would have it set to DHCP (automatic) and the base station dishes out IP addresses as it likes to the connected computers. If it shows something like 169.254.198.71 in the Network preferences then your Mac has not been assigned an IP address by the base station.