Hi,
I'm pretty new to mac, but I'm asked to support the few macs available here in the office.
This problem exists on all 3 macbooks I have tried it on.
When I click on the list of available wireless networks to connect to, OSX only shows a few networks, some are missing.
The missing networks do show up when I scan using a windows based tablet pc, so I know that the SSID's are broadcasted. All windows laptops can see and connect to the network in question without any problems, a fluke etherscope also connects perfectly. Therefore the problem appears to be connected to OSX.
When I click on "Join other Network", enter the SSID of the network that OSX won't find, the encryption type (WPA Personal) and the WPA key, I can connect to the network.
When I disconnect from it and scan (or turn airport off and turn it on again), it still won't show the network I was just connected to, but it will show a few others.
Other SSID's that are configured on the same Access Point do show up.
Other info:
- I'm using the built-in airport card
- OS version as reported by System profiler:
OSX 10.5.8 (9L30)
Kernel Version Darwin 9.8.0
All updates have been installed.
As entering the details manually each time is not very user-friendly, I was wondering if someone could point me in the right direction, is this a know feature/bug, or is this something that has been misconfigured? What can I do to make the network shop up in the list of available networks?
I hope I've given enough information, if there is more you want to know, just ask and I'll try to answer 😉
I'm pretty new to mac, but I'm asked to support the few macs available here in the office.
This problem exists on all 3 macbooks I have tried it on.
When I click on the list of available wireless networks to connect to, OSX only shows a few networks, some are missing.
The missing networks do show up when I scan using a windows based tablet pc, so I know that the SSID's are broadcasted. All windows laptops can see and connect to the network in question without any problems, a fluke etherscope also connects perfectly. Therefore the problem appears to be connected to OSX.
When I click on "Join other Network", enter the SSID of the network that OSX won't find, the encryption type (WPA Personal) and the WPA key, I can connect to the network.
When I disconnect from it and scan (or turn airport off and turn it on again), it still won't show the network I was just connected to, but it will show a few others.
Other SSID's that are configured on the same Access Point do show up.
Other info:
- I'm using the built-in airport card
- OS version as reported by System profiler:
OSX 10.5.8 (9L30)
Kernel Version Darwin 9.8.0
All updates have been installed.
As entering the details manually each time is not very user-friendly, I was wondering if someone could point me in the right direction, is this a know feature/bug, or is this something that has been misconfigured? What can I do to make the network shop up in the list of available networks?
I hope I've given enough information, if there is more you want to know, just ask and I'll try to answer 😉