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AirPort Update 2005-001

Toe said:
While we're on the subject of airports... if you're using one, be sure to use WPA.

WEP can be broken in THREE MINUTES. Not kidding. WPA, on the other hand, is secure.
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Right now I'm using WPA personal, is that the best?
What are the differences between all of the WPA's (1, 2, personal, enterprise)😕
What about checking "closed network"? Does that make it so no one can log onto my network unless they know the name? Do you recommend it on-top of the WPA?
 
sirron said:
I should add to to my last rant. Luckily I had SuperDuper installed and had backed up on the 29th. This update damaged a driver in the OS which made my Wacom tablet useless and it changed the settings on Mighty Mouse. It took two hours to erase my Mac HD and clone from my firewire back to my Mac. Phhew!!
Thanks to SuperDuper.
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devman said:
Can you provide any more details please? I have a wacom tablet and I'm holding off on this airport update till I know more.
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Well, after sirron did not provide any details I noticed he had posted this same message elsewhere on the web. I have since installed the airport update on two different machines and both machines continue to work perfectly including a Wacom tablet on each. The update did not affect Wacom at all for me.
 
I've had an on-going problem with my airport connection for a while now and just can't seem to resolve it. When my powerbook goes to sleep I loose my wireless network connection when I wake it. I then have to enter the network section in System Preferences and renew the DHCP lease. Sometimes this doesn't work and I have to log out then in again to get a connection because airport has assigned it's own IP address. I'm running 10.4.3 on a PB 1.67 1.5GB RAM. I think things improved when I updated to 10.4.3 but I'm back to square 1 after the AirPort Update 2005-001. Is there any way to remove this AirPort update? I've run all the tasks availible in Onyx and re-set the PMU but still no joy. I've tried deleting my network locations and re-creating them again but again no luck. I'm seriously thinking of wiping the HD and starting all over again. Any help would be grately appreciated.

Cheers

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Downloaded and rebooted quickly. Everything like normal. Already had full signal strength from the router about 70ft from my desk, and nothings changed.

Another great update from Apple. Keep up the good work. 🙂
 
Help! I'm having that problem too. "Airport Card: No information found."

I zapped the pram, reset the stuff. I also tried booting and logging in as safe mode then rebooting. Oh my god this sucks. Anyone know how I can get my airport back?
 
cepler said:
I finally got home to test my wireless with ALL of my major apps loaded (250 meg free out of 2 gig) and kept a ping running while I launched. Wireless kept responding very nicely with no dropped pings and respectable 20-30ms ping times which is appropriate for the server I was pinging. Prior to doing this update I would get 300-500ms pings and a lot of dropped pings.

W00T! Glad to see this fixed and only 1 day after I learn about it 😉

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Gosh, you have a lot of stuff on your desktop. How many screens do you use? How big are they?
Also, isn't that too much stuff in your dock? I'd be trying to toss categories of apps into folders that would pop up down there, instead. I don't even recognize all your icons 🙂
Oh, and you need to get a better icon for AdiumX. It's easy. GIR and Calvin's friend Hobbes are both available. 🙂
 
My PowerMac had Panther pre-installed and I had excellent wireless signal strength with an AirPort 802.11g card and Belkin pre-n router. After wiping Panther and installing a fresh copy of Tiger, I had about half strength--and this is literally three feet from the router. Very slow. I turned off AirPort and used the ethernet connection.

Just got done installing the AirPort update (installed 10.4.3 earlier this week), and I'm back to full strength. I move a lot of large files over my network so I'm going to stick with the ethernet connection, but it's nice to see that AirPort is working properly again.
 
Ok, never mind. I got my wireless to work again. I guess my Airport card got knocked loose. I did accidently bump it against a hard surface earlier.
 
run fsck to fix update problems

On an iBook 500 I had this update make the airport hardware disappear.

Rebooted into single user mode, ran fsck -fy, and now it's fine.
 
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