MN-700 and Apple Powerbook

I have a friend that I used a MN-700 router to connect his three Win XP
laptops together. Everything works fine and he can share the internet,
printer, and files with the three Windows PCs. Now he wants to hook up a
brand new Apple G4 Powerbook to this network. I can't get it to work wired
or wireless. It says it connects but never gets a dynamic IP from DHCP. I
tried to force it with a static IP that didn't work. On the air port
wireless it sees the Ssid name and connects but no ip. I pulled off the
MN-700 and replaced it with Linksys 54g and everything works. The Apple gets
an ip without problem. What gives? Thanks in advance.
Michael

I am having the same problem. The MN-700 works great on my windows based
laptop, but will not allow my roommate's powerbook to connect. She connected
through it once, accidentally, by putting the modem cable into #1 and the
ethernet cable from her computer into the modem spot on the MN-700. Either
way, the wireless doesn't work, and that's why I bought it.

I would say I can't believe Microsoft would make their broadband networking
gear only work on microsoft based computers, but I can believe it. I just
wish it wasn't true.

Anyone else know anything about this?

"MichaelL" wrote:

> I have a friend that I used a MN-700 router to connect his three Win XP
> laptops together. Everything works fine and he can share the internet,
> printer, and files with the three Windows PCs. Now he wants to hook up a
> brand new Apple G4 Powerbook to this network. I can't get it to work wired
> or wireless. It says it connects but never gets a dynamic IP from DHCP. I
> tried to force it with a static IP that didn't work. On the air port
> wireless it sees the Ssid name and connects but no ip. I pulled off the
> MN-700 and replaced it with Linksys 54g and everything works. The Apple gets
> an ip without problem. What gives? Thanks in advance.
> Michael

So, I just changed the powerbook's network settings to DHCP with manual
address, and then i typed in the IP that showed up next to the powerbook's
name in the broadband network utility (running on my PC next to the mac).
That appears to work. I restarted the mac, and it's still working. Looks ok
to me.