strekship Posted June 11, 2009 Share Posted June 11, 2009 My mom was assigned an old iBook by the school where she works. Unfortunately, its so old it doesn't work on our wireless network (doesn't support WPA2 or 802.11g). Anyway, when I plugged it in to the router, it gets an IP address but when I start up Safari it acts like its not connected. To complicate matters, the school neglected to give us the admin password so we are stuck using a Student account where we can't change system settings. Any ideas? The router is a WRT-300N running DD-WRT. The status page on the router shows that it has been assigned an IP by the DHCP and it is on the network. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quillz Posted June 11, 2009 Share Posted June 11, 2009 You say the school gave your mom the iBook? Does that mean in the past, it worked? Because if so, then it's probably an issue with the actual network, and something she'd want to talk to IT about. Otherwise, maybe convince them it's time for something a little newer, like a refurbished MacBook. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thefarewellnote Posted June 11, 2009 Share Posted June 11, 2009 My mom was assigned an old iBook by the school where she works. Unfortunately, its so old it doesn't work on our wireless network (doesn't support WPA2 or 802.11g). Anyway, when I plugged it in to the router, it gets an IP address but when I start up Safari it acts like its not connected. To complicate matters, the school neglected to give us the admin password so we are stuck using a Student account where we can't change system settings. Any ideas? The router is a WRT-300N running DD-WRT. The status page on the router shows that it has been assigned an IP by the DHCP and it is on the network. If you have a Tiger disk laying around you can boot into it and go in and change the admin password for the computer ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
strekship Posted June 11, 2009 Author Share Posted June 11, 2009 I do not know about how it worked on the school network, I am only talking about the network we have at home. I think she is going to get the admin password for me so I can fiddle with some of the network settings. It may be setup to only work on the schools network. It would have been nice if they had given her one that is a little bit newer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary2MBz Posted June 11, 2009 Share Posted June 11, 2009 That I.T. department of your school's must be pretty stupid. I doubt 802.11b supports WPA2 let alone WPA. In case I'm wrong, try doing a software update to resolve your WPA2 issues, or at least tell your chipmunk I.T. group to do it themselves. Let them deal with it at this point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
strekship Posted June 11, 2009 Author Share Posted June 11, 2009 That I.T. department of your school's must be pretty stupid. I doubt 802.11b supports WPA2 let alone WPA. In case I'm wrong, try doing a software update to resolve your WPA2 issues, or at least tell your chipmunk I.T. group to do it themselves. Let them deal with it at this point. After doing some reading when she first brought it home I figured that there would be no way for me to get it on the network through wireless. Its just too old for that. The problem I am talking about occurs with it being connected via ethernet. I wish I could hand it off to them but I don't think her school has much of an IT department to begin with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PL_ Veteran Posted June 12, 2009 Veteran Share Posted June 12, 2009 That I.T. department of your school's must be pretty stupid. Or maybe they just can't afford newer computers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary2MBz Posted June 12, 2009 Share Posted June 12, 2009 Or maybe they just can't afford newer computers. I know how they might not be able to afford new computers because of the economic situation. What I was referring to as "Stupid" is the way they failed to properly maintain it then pass it on the the OP. At the Children's Hospital, they all use IE6 STILL because of some hardcoded programs made for it only. Not all machines have XP SP3 yet because it could break the apps and that is a huge risk. IE7 is barely ever used. Our I.T. department at least gets to customer calls ASAP and they do a very good job at the maintenance. Your school is crap next to others that I've seen thus me calling them stupid in their way. At the hospital, we luckily have many new Lenovo's but there are still the share of 98-era machines, it has taken longer to finish building the new hospital due to lack of donations and funds. I understand if they can't afford new computers, but at least manage the existing ones well enough to last and work properly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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