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Tiger woes
- Posted on: May 04, 2005
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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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Comments
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!
Graham Sanders
Wed 4th May 2005
at 10:48 pm
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....
Mark Bernstein
Wed 4th May 2005
at 11:11 pm
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.
Feaverish
Wed 4th May 2005
at 11:20 pm
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.
John Zeratsky
Thu 5th May 2005
at 1:14 am
Which Netgear router do you have?
Tiger on my Powerbook seems to play fine with my DG834G.
Chris Winfield
Thu 5th May 2005
at 9:36 am
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).:-(
Mark Boulton
Thu 5th May 2005
at 1:14 pm
So this is what all you Apple heads mean by ‘It Just Works’ ;)
Dio
Thu 5th May 2005
at 1:16 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.
Chris Winfield
Thu 5th May 2005
at 1:30 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!
Brad Hurley
Thu 5th May 2005
at 3:18 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.
Brad Hurley
Thu 5th May 2005
at 3:38 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…
Mark Boulton
Thu 5th May 2005
at 7:18 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!
Jon Hicks
Thu 5th May 2005
at 9:51 pm
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!
Mark Boulton
Fri 6th May 2005
at 9:19 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?
Josh Jarmin
Sun 8th May 2005
at 4:28 am
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. :-)
Mark Boulton
Mon 9th May 2005
at 8:05 pm
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.
Veerle Pieters
Wed 11th May 2005
at 10:44 am
Well, 10.4.1 is no out - lets see if it cures our wireless woes…
Jon Hicks
Tue 17th May 2005
at 10:36 am
Seems to have so far!
Jon Hicks
Tue 17th May 2005
at 11:18 am
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.
Mark Boulton
Tue 17th May 2005
at 1:57 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....
Chris Harrison
Tue 17th May 2005
at 2:46 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 :-(
Mark Boulton
Tue 17th May 2005
at 7:50 pm