Hi! I just bought an old (but sweet) macbook pro. The machine seems great but when I plugged in my cable modem to see how fast I could surf I was met with a problem: no internet. Here is the status of my internet: "ethernet has a self-assigned IP address and will not be able to connect to the internet." Now I attempted to contact apple for support and never received the call back. I've so far done some troubleshooting on my own finding others with this issue. I deleted a file called "com.apple.alf.plist." which for some people did work but not the case in my issue. I also manually typed in the ip address and dns server which made it so the status claimed to be connected to that ip address but still was unable to browse the internet. I don't believe it to be a problem with the router or cable as the desktop currently wired into it runs the internet fine. Unfortunately at the moment I cannot test to see if wireless works my macbook arrived early and my router is still in the mail. But if anyone has any idea of how I can work around this I would be most grateful.