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Airport issues with Leopard?

I haven't had any negative issues with my airport since i upgraded, in fact i find that i am able to see a lot more routers in my area, which makes me think my range has improved.

Anyone else notice this?
 
Airport problem solved with router update

I upgraded to Leopard on my Mac Mini G4, and afterwards I couldn't connect to my wireless network. After trying a number of things both myself and with AppleCare, we finally figured out the problem. I have a Westell VersaLink combination DSL modem and wireless router (model A90-327W15-06) that I got with my Verizon DSL. The router was running an old version of the firmware (03.00.63). When I upgraded the firmware to 03.02.01 that I downloaded from Verizon's website, wireless started working fine.

Hope this helps anyone who has a similar issue.

kgh
 
Me Too

So I installed Leopard on day 1. Everything was very very sluggish. To the point I was ready to throw the whole thing out. I was having the same issues as a lot of people with my Airport being recognized but not automatically joined. Suddenly there are 6 networks in my neighborhood whereas pre-Leopard there were two besides mine. Password entered, remember this password box checked, Airport is set as prefered network. Shutoff airport and turned back on. Brilliant it worked!! Shut down and restart, same thing. Then the darkness fell..... Monday I started up and the grey screen at start up just kept going and going. Tried three times then booted from Leopard. Started then said disk corrupted. Tried again same thing. So I tried again and it said the only way to install on the hard disk was to earse and do the clean install. Reluctantly I did it. At least the music is backed up on the iPod and I have no important work stuff because my work isn't important. Reinstalled the keychain and login update. Still doing the same stuff. It will see my network and the other 5 and I have to manually enter password. I have gone though the diagnostic and assist me options, click the known networks will be joined, set the airport as prefered network. I can shut it off manually but when I shut down and restart it will work 1 time out of every 10. I tried to run the Airport utility but when it scans for airports it can't find any and says I am not connected to the internet. The airport gauge at the top says I am, Safari and Mail work.

I know this is really long winded but I am frustrated. Wife doesn't get it and thinks I am nuts obsessing about it but I just want things to work like they did. Also Mail keeps asking me for my password randomly and I have clicked remember this password. I am having certificate problems despite telling it to trust this certificate. Any help would be great. Sounds like other are having similar issues but I don't see an answer that I haven't tried.

Also why does the wireless on my iPhone work like butter but the damn laptop won't.
:mad:
 
After the post 10.4.10 airport update, I had nothing but problems. I rolled back to the 10.4.10 airport driver and all was good.

Now, after upgrading to Leopard, my connection drops out all the time. I then did a complete format and clean install only to have the same problem. My OS is completely up to date and still problems exist.
 
Just got my first Kernel Panic ever on my MBP!!! :(
All thanks to my airport card and Leopard. Don't know how much more of this I can take before I go back to Tiger and wait for more updates for Leopard. :(

Fri Nov 2 09:41:28 2007
panic(cpu 1 caller 0x0039CDE0): "m_free: freeing an already freed mbuf"@/SourceCache/xnu/xnu-1228/bsd/kern/uipc_mbuf.c:2742
Backtrace, Format - Frame : Return Address (4 potential args on stack)
0x2e33b978 : 0x12b0e1 (0x4555b4 0x2e33b9ac 0x133238 0x0)
0x2e33b9c8 : 0x39cde0 (0x48cc84 0x303ef400 0x3599001c 0x0)
0x2e33ba08 : 0x39d0dc (0x303aa100 0x8 0x2e33ba58 0x1)
0x2e33ba28 : 0x3d80fb87 (0x303ef400 0x0 0x20 0x2)
0x2e33bb98 : 0x3d80fec5 (0x2397a2c8 0x2397c150 0x64c56 0x0)
0x2e33bce8 : 0x3d81b20b (0x23a3b004 0x0 0x3ac34a4 0x19ccc1)
0x2e33be68 : 0x3d7eb84a (0x2397a4c0 0x2397a4c0 0x166a6f1e 0x4007)
0x2e33beb8 : 0x3d7ecf3f (0x3d873c80 0x3d873c84 0xbfe00000 0x0)
0x2e33bf48 : 0x3d7eb4b7 (0x3be0804 0x0 0x0 0x19ccc1)
0x2e33bf78 : 0x13e987 (0x3be0c94 0x3be0804 0x0 0x238000)
0x2e33bfc8 : 0x19e2ec (0x0 0x0 0x10 0x3abfb40)
Backtrace terminated-invalid frame pointer 0
Kernel loadable modules in backtrace (with dependencies):
com.apple.driver.AirPort.Atheros(300.22)@0x3d7ea000->0x3d874fff
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IO80211Family(200.7)@0x346c9000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.4)@0x2e408000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IONetworkingFamily(1.6.0)@0x345f4000

BSD process name corresponding to current thread: kernel_task

Mac OS version:
9A581

Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 9.0.0: Tue Oct 9 21:35:55 PDT 2007; root:xnu-1228~1/RELEASE_I386
System model name: MacBookPro2,1 (Mac-F42189C8)
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Exactly the same here, I have to do the Off/On thing EVERY several minutes!!!
I've tried both upgrade and fresh installation, no difference.

This happened since 10.4.10 Airport update, but in 10.4, I JUST needed to do this every 30 minutes.:mad:

techound1 said:
My airport connection keeps dropping out (both the ap connection to the network and the networks connection to the internet). I have to turn ap off and then on again to get a connection back. Wicked annoying.
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saw this fix on apple support

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=306879

Hey guys. Don't know if this is the fix we are looking for or not but give it a try.

I am having similar problems as ya'll. Sometimes my mail won't load, some websites (normally apple sites) won't load while others will, and sometimes, but not often, APE isn't seen.

Sometimes in safari it tells me not connected to internet. I run the network diagnostic and it comes back all green with no connection problems. I can normally see my network and my APE in airport utility. Are ya'll having these same problems or do you think I have a different problem.
 
Veritas&Equitas said:
Yeah, my issue with Airport + Leopard is that whenever I restart my MBP, it simply won't reconnect to my home network automatically; I have to select it every time I boot up. Kind of annoying.
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I am using a wireless Linksys router and this is the exact issue I am having.

I had no issues on Tiger, but now under Leopard this happens every time I either restart the MBP or wake from sleep. It NEVER reconnects to my home network, it will reconnect to a neighbor, I have to actually type in the SSID and WPA password everytime.

I hope this is something that will be fixed in an upcoming update.
 
scott1785 said:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=306879

Hey guys. Don't know if this is the fix we are looking for or not but give it a try.

I am having similar problems as ya'll. Sometimes my mail won't load, some websites (normally apple sites) won't load while others will, and sometimes, but not often, APE isn't seen.

Sometimes in safari it tells me not connected to internet. I run the network diagnostic and it comes back all green with no connection problems. I can normally see my network and my APE in airport utility. Are ya'll having these same problems or do you think I have a different problem.
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Yeah, that didn't work for me. My problems started before that update. Specifically, it stated right after I installed Leopard.

One of the things I've noticed is that it will usually maintain a connection if there is traffic streaming constantly. However, if I'm just surfing the web, and therefore not connecting but maybe once every minute or so, it will randomly disconnect.

I was logged on to a chat this weekend that lasted 4 hours and never lost connection, but as soon as the chat was over and I turned off my IRC client, I started losing connection randomly.

Perhaps this has something to do with the driver losing interest and going to sleep, or simply not liking the pages I'm surfing to. ;)
 
scott1785 said:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=306879

Hey guys. Don't know if this is the fix we are looking for or not but give it a try.

I am having similar problems as ya'll. Sometimes my mail won't load, some websites (normally apple sites) won't load while others will, and sometimes, but not often, APE isn't seen.

Sometimes in safari it tells me not connected to internet. I run the network diagnostic and it comes back all green with no connection problems. I can normally see my network and my APE in airport utility. Are ya'll having these same problems or do you think I have a different problem.
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Well, my only problem is that my computer isn't remembering my wireless network and/or WPA2 password... I've tried:

1. deleting the network from network preferences
2. deleting the keychain for the wireless network
3. installing the keychain update
4. booting into safe mode then rebooting normally
5. completely resetting my airport express and creating a new network
6. deleting the airport preference file and rebooting

and NONE of those work. wtf?
 
I got my MB running 10.5.1 to work on my AP extreme at home, but it still doesn't remember the settings for a different network on a belkin n1 router at a different house.
 
i'm having the same issues. Leopard won't automatically connect to my home network. It just randomly started doing this. I've tried everything I know how.

I have a Powerbook G4 if anyone has a solution to this please let me know. Its freakin' annoying to ahve to connect everytime I wake it up.
 
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