Verizon FiOS, MacBook Pros, and Self-Assigned IP Addresses
If you’ve had difficulties connecting your MacBook Pro to a Verizon FiOS wireless router, read on.
When connecting to the FiOS wireless router, I can see the access point, enter the password, and it appears to connect to the network.
Except the router doesn’t assign the MacBook Pro an IP address and self-assigns itself one. Even manually entering the address in the 192.168.1.x/24 block, subnet mask, and default gateway address doesn’t work.
Through trial and hour for the past few hours, the key is that the password is case-sensitive. I had initially entered the password in lowercase letters. Without much luck, I deleted the password stored in the keychain, and tried again. But this time, I entered the same key in UPPERCASE.
It was beautiful.
July 9, 2009 at 3:20 pm
THANK YOU!!! I have been trying to fix it for over an hour. The Fios people tried everything, and couldn’t get it to work. I did just what you said to do and just like magic, i got connected!
August 13, 2009 at 1:46 pm
this didn’t work for me so I contacted ActionTec’s tech support. They responded and said that for a Macbook Pro, you need to put the $ in front of the WEP key to tell the router that the key is in hex. I did it and now it works!
August 17, 2009 at 12:47 am
Wonder how that works with the latest Airport update, and if that will still apply to Snow Leopard. Keep us posted! -JO
September 8, 2009 at 10:13 am
works for me – choose WEPPASSWORD and add the dollar sign prefix to the WEP KEY marked on the verizon router.
November 8, 2009 at 3:40 pm
Thanks for the tips but still not working for me. I’ve spent hours on the phone with FIOS, went to Apple store live and no has been able to help. I used the $ prefix and the correct case on the password, but no luck. Frustrating