The personal disquiet of

Mark Boulton

May 4th, 2005

Tiger woes

Oh the pain of it all. Not only did I have a bit of a mare try­ing to order this oper­at­ing sys­tem, but now after installing it’s bust my wire­less connection.

Appar­ently I’m not the only one with this prob­lem though. I have an iMac G5 con­nect­ing to a Net­gear wire­less router and Tiger just refuses to play ball with the DHCP, the Air­port keeps assign­ing itself an IP address. 

It works fine through Eth­er­net though — I guess I’ll have to wait for a fix. 

Grrrr 

Update:

Well, after being up for a long time last night, leav­ing the FW drive to run on TechTool to try and recover some data I get to it this morn­ing at 7am and it’s totally screwed — B-Tree’s knackered, can’t mount, can’t be fixed, can’t recover any data. Had to wipe it. 

That means i’ve lost a bunch of stuff, but most import­antly a book I was design­ing for our wed­ding pho­to­graphs. Ouch. The bruis­ing I’ve received from kick­ing myself will now be aggre­v­ated by the kick­ing my Wife’s going to give me! 

Luck­ily I backed stuff up to DVD in Decem­ber, all other work since then has been doc­u­ment­a­tion which has been emailed. Thank­fully, I have everything saved in my sent items — thank the lord for IMAP!

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21 Responses to “Tiger woes”

  1. Graham Sanders said on: May 4th, 2005 at 11:48 pm

    That does sound annoy­ing but more annoy­ing are those Google ads you’ve now got on your blog Mark, c’mon mate don’t sell out, get rid of them they’re ugly as!

  2. Mark Bernstein said on: May 5th, 2005 at 12:11 am

    It might not be a Tiger issue per se.  We bought some Link­sys wire­less routers last year, and never could get DHCP work­ing right, with Panther.  

    Ulti­mately, we shrugged, bought a bunch of air­ports, and everything was fine. 

    Note that updat­ing the router firm­ware some­times helps.…

  3. Feaverish said on: May 5th, 2005 at 12:20 am

    I don’t know if it’s in any way related, but Gar­rett at Mani­acal Rage had an inter­net prob­lem with Tiger and pos­ted a quick fix.

  4. John Zeratsky said on: May 5th, 2005 at 2:14 am

    The only Airport-related prob­lem I’ve had in Tiger is that when my Power Mac G4 wakes up from sleep, it can­not find any wire­less net­works. A reboot is required to fix it.

  5. Chris Winfield said on: May 5th, 2005 at 10:36 am

    Which Net­gear router do you have? 

    Tiger on my Power­book seems to play fine with my DG834G.

  6. Mark Boulton said on: May 5th, 2005 at 2:14 pm

    Same model as you Chris. I’mgoing to try a fresh install to see if that works. Oth­er­wise it’s the cable until Apple release a fix (which is rumoured to be in a few weeks).:-(

  7. Dio said on: May 5th, 2005 at 2:16 pm

    So this is what all you Apple heads mean by ‘It Just Works’ ;)

  8. Chris Winfield said on: May 5th, 2005 at 2:30 pm

    Strange. I erased my hard drive and installed a fresh copy of Tiger then migrated all my data manu­ally. Tiger detec­ted my wire­less net­work dur­ing the install. I fed it the pass­word I haven’t had to worry about it since.

  9. Brad Hurley said on: May 5th, 2005 at 4:18 pm

    Tiger’s play­ing well with my Microsoft wire­less router, but for some reason it won’t let me print to my wire­less printer (HP 5850) any­more. The bizarre thing is that the printer shows up in Ren­dez­vous (now Bon­jour) and I can print a test page wire­lessly, but I can’t print from any applic­a­tion. How bizarre!

  10. Brad Hurley said on: May 5th, 2005 at 4:38 pm

    Ah, I spoke too soon! Just went to HP’s web­site and learned that the driver for this printer is now included with Tiger, and it told me to reset the printer using the Printer utility…once I did that, everything works fine. Phew.

  11. Mark Boulton said on: May 5th, 2005 at 8:18 pm

    It’s all gone very wrong now. 

    I backed up all my stuff to an external FW drive. Then wiped my iMac, installed Tiger (wire­less still not work­ing, giv­ing up until Apple release a fix), then went to put all my backed up data on the freshly installed iMac and the FW drive isn’t being recognised.

    Reminds me why I love computers. 

    Pass me a pint, I’m in for a long night…

  12. Jon Hicks said on: May 5th, 2005 at 10:51 pm

    I’m hav­ing the same prob­lems with my set up Mark (same as yours), although my IP address isn’t being reset. The con­nec­tion will just drop for a while, and then come back again. My wife’s power­book is still on Pan­ther and its con­nec­tion is con­stant! Grrr!

  13. Mark Boulton said on: May 6th, 2005 at 10:19 am

    Jon — After look­ing through the Apple for­ums it seems to be a pretty well doc­u­mented screw up with Tiger, although incon­sist­ant. Some people, like you, are hav­ing their con­nec­tion drop, some are hav­ing a ter­rible sig­nal and speed, and some, like me, aren’t get­ting any­thing but self-assigning IP’s for the Air­port card.

    Looks like Apple may release an update in a couple of weeks though, hope­fully this will sort it out. 

    Damn my impatience!

  14. Josh Jarmin said on: May 8th, 2005 at 5:28 am

    I just upgraded to Tiger and my wire­less DLink router is work­ing just fine with it.  Other than the wire­less issues, how do you like Tiger?

  15. Mark Boulton said on: May 9th, 2005 at 9:05 pm

    Josh — I’m still get­ting to grips with Tiger, I haven’t spent that much time on it yet. Over­all it seems quite a bit faster than Pan­ther on my iMac G5, it cer­tainly starts up a lot of lot faster.

    I’m lik­ing Mail (apart from the dodgy icons, which I’ve now changed) and have switched from Thunderbird. 

    I’ll let you know more, the more I use it. First impres­sions are, if you for­get the wire­less issues, good. :-)

  16. Veerle Pieters said on: May 11th, 2005 at 11:44 am

    One good tip is to never trust Techtool or Norton when a disk is con­cerned. Use Disk War­rior instead. That applic­a­tion has resur­rec­ted disks that other pro­grams couldn’t. It is one of the best tools available.

  17. Jon Hicks said on: May 17th, 2005 at 11:36 am

    Well, 10.4.1 is no out — lets see if it cures our wire­less woes…

  18. Jon Hicks said on: May 17th, 2005 at 12:18 pm

    Seems to have so far!

  19. Mark Boulton said on: May 17th, 2005 at 2:57 pm

    Veerle — Back in the good ‘ole days of OS9, I used to use Norton quite a lot to sort out my disk and never really had a prob­lem with it. Last week I really was des­per­ate for any­thing to sort it out. Techtool actu­ally went much fur­ther than Disk War­rior in identi­fy­ing (if not fix­ing) the problem. 

    Jon — Thanks for the heads up, I’ll get that installed tonight and hope­fully things will be hunkey-dorey once again in the Boulton household.

  20. Chris Harrison said on: May 17th, 2005 at 3:46 pm

    I’m sorry for cross-posting this, but is your external Firewire HD a Max­tor One-TOuch? If yes… hook it up via USB instead. There is an issue with this drive and Firewire and Tiger… where the drive no longer mounts. Hook it up via USB and it’ll work just fine. Trust me, I had this same prob­lem on TWO macs with TWO dif­fer­ent Max­tor One-Touch drives hooked up via Firewire. In both cases, switch­ing them to USB fixed the mount issue. No data was lost. I’m hop­ing this isn’t too late.…

  21. Mark Boulton said on: May 17th, 2005 at 8:50 pm

    Bug­ger. The upgrade didn’t fix the prob­lem. It did to a cer­tain extent, in that my Aiport card now recog­nises my wire­less net­work on star­tup, gets the right IP, but then refuses to con­nect. It thinks it’s con­nec­ted, but it just isn’t work­ing. It then promptly dies when put to sleep.

    Looks like I’ll be wait­ing for the next update :-(

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