I saw an older thread with no answers... its a year old so I'm putting new life into it.
I'm about to start drinking heavily after fighting this the past few days.
Here's the stats
Model Name: MacBook Pro
Model Identifier: MacBookPro4,1
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 2.6 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2
L2 Cache: 6 MB
Memory: 4 GB
Bus Speed: 800 MHz
Boot ROM Version: MBP41.00C1.B03
SMC Version (system): 1.28f2
That's just cut and paste from the system info. If any more info would help, let me know. Basically, the last few days, my connection cuts off. It won't stay connected for more than a few minutes. Both wireless connection, and just plugging it straight into the modem via ethernet.
When this happens, I jump over to system preferences>networks, where it shows yellow lights for the status. Sometimes they are red lights, usually yellow. I click on "assist me", then "diagnostics", where it promptly checks the connection and viola... all the lights go green and I get connection for another 5 minutes, if that.
Any thoughts? This seems to be a common issue when searching, but all the answers are the same, like having it set to DHCP, which it is.
This is driving me insane.
edit: Mac OSX 10.5.8, I've installed all current updates (for better or worse), and nothing has changed at all in the days since things worked until now.
I'm about to start drinking heavily after fighting this the past few days.
Here's the stats
Model Name: MacBook Pro
Model Identifier: MacBookPro4,1
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 2.6 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2
L2 Cache: 6 MB
Memory: 4 GB
Bus Speed: 800 MHz
Boot ROM Version: MBP41.00C1.B03
SMC Version (system): 1.28f2
That's just cut and paste from the system info. If any more info would help, let me know. Basically, the last few days, my connection cuts off. It won't stay connected for more than a few minutes. Both wireless connection, and just plugging it straight into the modem via ethernet.
When this happens, I jump over to system preferences>networks, where it shows yellow lights for the status. Sometimes they are red lights, usually yellow. I click on "assist me", then "diagnostics", where it promptly checks the connection and viola... all the lights go green and I get connection for another 5 minutes, if that.
Any thoughts? This seems to be a common issue when searching, but all the answers are the same, like having it set to DHCP, which it is.
This is driving me insane.
edit: Mac OSX 10.5.8, I've installed all current updates (for better or worse), and nothing has changed at all in the days since things worked until now.