iMac not connecting to airport extreme

[adsl3g]

This happened now a week ago, I see the network and it says its connected butI get no internet access. Airport utility app is also unable to find any airport devices. Windows 7 on the iMac connects perfectly via bootcamp on the same iMac so its not hardware related.
Any ideas??

OS - Snow leopard - latest version

 

[Synaesthesia]

Odd. Try connecting over WPA2 if you are currently using WEP.

In fact, if you can't find Airport devices, how does it say it's connected?

Try this: System Preferences -> Network -> "Assist Me"

 

[adsl3g]

Odd. Try connecting over WPA2 if you are currently using WEP.

In fact, if you can't find Airport devices, how does it say it's connected?

Try this: System Preferences -> Network -> "Assist Me"

easy, the icon in the top menu bar says its connected to my airport ssid - no internet access though - also cannot call up the router via airport utility.

Anyway, its all buggered now - did the disk utility from the install DVD and it says the OS is damaged and must be reloaded - sooo - I'm on Windows 7 till I feel up to re-installing OSX...

 

[BobJones]

easy, the icon in the top menu bar says its connected to my airport ssid - no internet access though - also cannot call up the router via airport utility.

Anyway, its all buggered now - did the disk utility from the install DVD and it says the OS is damaged and must be reloaded - sooo - I'm on Windows 7 till I feel up to re-installing OSX...

If you had the install disk in the drive, it would have taken a whole 40 min to reinstall. You don't even have to do an erase and install, and even if you did, it doesn't take very long to restore from a time machine backup.

 

[w1z4rd]

Its always your fault with a mac

 

[bwana]

easy, the icon in the top menu bar says its connected to my airport ssid - no internet access though - also cannot call up the router via airport utility.

Anyway, its all buggered now - did the disk utility from the install DVD and it says the OS is damaged and must be reloaded - sooo - I'm on Windows 7 till I feel up to re-installing OSX...

Impressed I am - in the last 12 years or more I've yet to see that message - in fact there are probably latent bits of 10.1 in the system I'm running right now because that was probably the last time I did a completely clean installation.

Network problems are usually easily just by creating a new location and restarting - or if that fails by trashing the preference file and starting over.

Its always your fault with a mac

nah - there are plenty of glitches when new os or hardware is launched that are definitely apples fault.

 

[adsl3g]

Impressed I am - in the last 12 years or more I've yet to see that message - in fact there are probably latent bits of 10.1 in the system I'm running right now because that was probably the last time I did a completely clean installation.

Network problems are usually easily just by creating a new location and restarting - or if that fails by trashing the preference file and starting over.nah - there are plenty of glitches when new os or hardware is launched that are definitely apples fault.

Was a bit of a shock to me as well.. Anyway, did a erase & install - there was a lot of crap on there - so a new beginning is good - all running nicely again. Getting a spare SATA drive this afternoon so that I can set up Time Machine (never had it running) - lost a LOT of photos - but thats my stupidity - Only kept a backup of iTunes... Most of my photos are somewhere on a hard drive - will restore them once I get around to that!!