I have recently bought a MAC mini.
But it keeps losing network connection. If I run Assist me in the network window it say 'fail' for the ISP, and I have no network connection at all. Not even to my router. (Netgear DG834G). If I disconnect and reconnect the LAN to the MAC it re-establishes connection, similarly with airport. But looses it again fairly shortly. This does not always happen sometimes it works for ages with no problem.
Rebooting the router fixes it but that's not acceptable.
I have tried manual configuration, auto DHCP, turning off IPv6. I have assigned an IP in the router. I have configure the ISPs DNS's.
Sometimes in auto DHCP it says the router has assigned 169.254.91.248 which is outside my routers DHCP allocation range of 192.168.02 - 192.168.0.50 so where is it getting that from? It says self assigned.
I have an XP and an Ubuntu machine on the same network which have no problems at all. So it can't be the ISP or the router.
It all points to a bug in Leopard.
Anyone else having this sort of problem?
I've just noticed there have been other threads with similar problems but none seem to solve it, so is there a leopard bug?
I'm having to write this using Windows.......
But it keeps losing network connection. If I run Assist me in the network window it say 'fail' for the ISP, and I have no network connection at all. Not even to my router. (Netgear DG834G). If I disconnect and reconnect the LAN to the MAC it re-establishes connection, similarly with airport. But looses it again fairly shortly. This does not always happen sometimes it works for ages with no problem.
Rebooting the router fixes it but that's not acceptable.
I have tried manual configuration, auto DHCP, turning off IPv6. I have assigned an IP in the router. I have configure the ISPs DNS's.
Sometimes in auto DHCP it says the router has assigned 169.254.91.248 which is outside my routers DHCP allocation range of 192.168.02 - 192.168.0.50 so where is it getting that from? It says self assigned.
I have an XP and an Ubuntu machine on the same network which have no problems at all. So it can't be the ISP or the router.
It all points to a bug in Leopard.
Anyone else having this sort of problem?
I've just noticed there have been other threads with similar problems but none seem to solve it, so is there a leopard bug?
I'm having to write this using Windows.......