Pyrotechnic Posted April 21, 2009 Share Posted April 21, 2009 I just installed 10.4.11 on my Dell B130. I'm on a school network. I have an Intel BG2200 wireless card which doesn't support encrypted connections at the moment with OSX, and the school's wireless connection is WAP encrypted. That's fine, the wireless here sucks anyway. My last hope was the onboard ethernet. I installed the 10.4.3 kexts and got MacOS to see it. Now it won't pick up an DHCP address. Windows XP picks it up instantly. I looked around here and one person advised waiting until fully booted, then plugging in the cable. Didn't help. Another person mentioned enabling network booting in the BIOS. I did this, and when it tried to boot from the network it started looking for DHCP info. Makes sense right ? The problem is, it couldn't get any DHCP info ! This makes me wonder if the school network is selective in how it gives out DHCP info. If the boot client and OSX can't get it, but Windows XP can, this tells me something is wrong on their end. I don't know the deep fundatmentals of networking, but is there a certain identifier that Windows put's out when requesting DHCP info that this pain in the ass network might be looking for ? I really wish I had a basic home router to try this with and see if it could pick up DHCP info from that but that's not an option right now. Any ideas ? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/163071-broadcom-440x-ethernet-strange-dhcp-behavior/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pyrotechnic Posted April 22, 2009 Author Share Posted April 22, 2009 Here's some more news. I booted into OSX, connected the ethernet cable and got the usual automatic IP address. I then browsed the network and I was able to browse through folders that other Mac users were sharing on the network. I even copied some music to my desktop. I opened up iTunes and it found a bunch of shared libraries as well. I'm still trying to figure out if the school's DHCP server isn't going to play nice with Mac (seems not to be the case as there are other Macs on the network) or if this problem is on my end. If it matters, the wireless card is en1 and the ethernet card is en2. Anyone else have this automatic IP address problem ? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/163071-broadcom-440x-ethernet-strange-dhcp-behavior/#findComment-1139492 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pyrotechnic Posted April 23, 2009 Author Share Posted April 23, 2009 I am typing this from OSX ! I booted into XP, let the DHCP server send me an IP, gateway, and DNS servers then I wrote it all down. I booted into OSX and entered all this manually, and I now I've got internet access. I wouldn't call this is permanent solution. I figure the next thing I need to do is find a basic home router I can connect to and see if it will take DHCP info from it. In the mean time, is there anything that would mess up DHCP operation but still allow the card to work otherwise ? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/163071-broadcom-440x-ethernet-strange-dhcp-behavior/#findComment-1139705 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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