Hi,
I really hoping someone can help me out here... I'm getting close to resorting to physical violence.
I have a macbook, which connects wirelessly to a DLink DIR655 wireless-N router. I also have a WD MyBookWorld that connects via ethernet to the dlink. After many hours (and a lot of help from this and other online forums) this setup has been working without a hitch for several months.
Problem is, I want to update the firmware for the router which is still the original version and two years out of date. To do this I need a wired connection to the router.
Nothing I do will make this !@#$ laptop accept a wired connection to the router. I have rebooted, reset, reconfigured, re-everythinged for several hours. As soon as I disable the airport, I can not access the router or internet. I've tried swapping cables - no difference. Typing the router ip address into safari just gives an error 'you cannot connect to 192.168.0.1 because you are not connected to the internet'
Diagnostics shows a green light for the ethernet connection, and a valid IP address assigned, and also a green light for network settings. Sometimes a green light will appear briefly for ISP, but turns red again. Internet and SErver are both red.
I can't believe this should be so hard! I'm sure I've missed something obvious...... Can anybody see what it is?
Regards
Geoff
I really hoping someone can help me out here... I'm getting close to resorting to physical violence.
I have a macbook, which connects wirelessly to a DLink DIR655 wireless-N router. I also have a WD MyBookWorld that connects via ethernet to the dlink. After many hours (and a lot of help from this and other online forums) this setup has been working without a hitch for several months.
Problem is, I want to update the firmware for the router which is still the original version and two years out of date. To do this I need a wired connection to the router.
Nothing I do will make this !@#$ laptop accept a wired connection to the router. I have rebooted, reset, reconfigured, re-everythinged for several hours. As soon as I disable the airport, I can not access the router or internet. I've tried swapping cables - no difference. Typing the router ip address into safari just gives an error 'you cannot connect to 192.168.0.1 because you are not connected to the internet'
Diagnostics shows a green light for the ethernet connection, and a valid IP address assigned, and also a green light for network settings. Sometimes a green light will appear briefly for ISP, but turns red again. Internet and SErver are both red.
I can't believe this should be so hard! I'm sure I've missed something obvious...... Can anybody see what it is?
Regards
Geoff