[Wirelessdriver-support] lost ip address

[hjohn s. <jsc...@ad...>]

i am running os10.2 on my mac wallstreet powerbook with a sonnet g4 
upgrade card and a gold orinoco pc card using the sourceforge wireless 
driver beta_5. everything was working fine for a while but lately, 
whenever i boot into 10.2 from 9.2.2, my computer joins my specific 
"closed" airport base station (graphite) network ok but self assigns a 
new ip address that won't let me connect to the internet. the self 
assigned ip address is 169.254.249.xxx. if i go to tcp/ip "manual" and 
type in a 10.0.1.x ip address and my airport base station router address 
it still doesn't work. if i reboot into 9 and reconfigure my airport 
base station network to "open" using the airport admin utility and then 
reboot into 10 the dhcp server assigns the correct ip address (10.0.1.x) 
and i can connect to the net. i tried reinstalling the sourceforge 
driver without luck. i don't understand os10 well enough to know where 
to make adjustments. i don't understand how i can be connected to my 
specific airport base station network with a strong signal and not get 
the proper ip address assigned.

another symptom i noticed is that when the problem first showed up it 
started taking (and continues to take) much longer than usual for my 
startup sequence in os10 to get through the "waiting for network 
initialization" step.

i don't recall having installed any new software or having made any 
other changes to my system just prior to the problem showing up.

i have two other computers on my airport base station network, one 
running 9.2.2 and one 10.2 and they both work fine.

jschwell