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Zone: Apple Networking

Tags: netgear, airport, mr814v2, ibook, router

I have an existing Netgear MR814v2 wireless router set-up that works fine with a Windows XP
laptop connected via wireless, and I have an older G3 MAC plugged into one of the ethernet ports
on the router

I just bought a refurbished airport card from APPLE for an older ibook and can't connect to the router via wireless. Plugging it in via ethernet works fine, wireless does not.

Facts:
-ibook is running os9.2.2 with airport 2.0.4 software
-netgear router is broadcasting the wireless networks ssid
-ibook sees the ssid but says it can't connect to "the airport network"
-dhcp is enabled by default and all netgear settings are factory default except i changed the ssid
-WEP is disabled on router
-firmware has been upgraded from 5.01 to 5.03 (did not solve problem)
-signal strength is almost the max as seen by airport card software on ibook
- The router see's the ibook/ airport cards MAC address
-The ibook airport control panel sees the network ssid
and routers MAC address but keeps coming back saying
it can't connect to the "airport network"
-The TCP/IP control panel says AIRPORT on the ibook,
but the ip address that appears is not that allowed
by the router (e.g. 168.0.1.X). I hard coded the ip
addresses in the tcp/ip panel and still no dice
(I have cycled this panel a couple of times, but it is not getting a correct
ip address from the router via dhcp, so it assigns one in 169.254 range
-Netgear tech support is useless.

I have searched other forums to no avail as most say to upgrade
the firmware to v5.01 which the router already had when I first installed it.
Thanks for any ideas.

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