New hard drive installed, formatted, put the Lion disc in that I made previously wait for it to load and it connects to my Wi-Fi how can it get the password for my wireless network?
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How can this be possible?
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It doesn't use your wi-fi. I believe the text above the progress bar says "Downloading blah blah blah..." It isn't downloading anything, it's merely copying setup files from the disk to your hard drive.
I saw this as well and thought the same. To prove it wasn't accessing my connection I turned airport off and Lion still installs. An Apple coder just assumed Lion would always be downloaded prior to the install.
I saw this as well and thought the same. To prove it wasn't accessing my connection I turned airport off and Lion still installs. An Apple coder just assumed Lion would always be downloaded prior to the install.
When you click the Wi-Fi icon on the top of the menu bar the signal is full and a tick is next to my SSID.
Is there a padlock icon next to the connection?
Trust me... Lion has not mysteriously hacked into your router. The installer is written to assume a download and a wi-fi password for the selected location would be requested later *if* you were installing Lion the way Apple intended. (i.e. by downloading it).
But... you have the full OS on a disk so the installer doesn't need to download anything.