Pulling 169 address on wireless but wired is fine

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on osx 10.7.5 tried removing airport and re adding. reset modem to factory. no router in play
 
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Can you explain a little more about the issue and the equipment you have. You say you have no router but indicate your trying to connect wirelessly, so there must be a router or combined modem/router somewhere in the loop
 
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That is correct. Its an all in one modem/ built in wireless router. Did a factory reset on the modem/router. All other devices in the house connect. This mac in question will connect via ethernet but will pull a 169 on the WiFi every time. I have tried deleting and re-adding the airport connection
 
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Have you tried a different cable?
Is is set to DHCP?
 
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Apologies got it the wrong way round.

A self assigned address like that occurs when the router is refusing to connect to the device. Could be a setting on the router. But to rule out the Mac you can completely reset the network settings:
In Finder go to:
yourMacHD/Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/preferences.plist

Rename the preferences.plist to preferences.old

Restart your Mac

Attempt to reconnect to your network and try again

If that doesn't work then do the same thing but for the whole SystemConfiguration folder that the above plist is in.
 

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