Wireless auto-connect to network and losing connection on sleep/fast user switching

[frez]

Hi there,

I'm new to OSX and would appreciate some help with a Wireless issue.

I have a new (one day old) PB 15" and I immediately updated to 10.3.7 first thing.

How do I get my machine to automatically connect to my Wireless (Linksys Router based) network? In the Aiport Network settings, I have set:

"By default, join: A specified network"
<my_network>
<password>

My router is broadcasting it's SSID and it shows up correctly in my list of networks when I click on the Airport icon on my menu bar.

I can connect to it by selecting the network manually and it only takes a second to do so, but I'm wondering if I can have it automatically connect??

Also, it seems to lose its connection when the computer goes into sleep or when I use fast user switching.

Any help appreciated.

Thanks

PB 15" (M9422LL/A); Mac OS X (10.3.7)

 

[tamara6]

Does it lose the connection when you switch users or only when you have fast user switching enabled (even if you don't switch users)?

 

[blodwyn]

My 12" PB connects automatically whether switching users or waking up at home or at work, so it's probably a setting somewhere

Have you got the location set to 'Automatic' in your Sysyem Preferences > Network?

 

[LimitedEdition]

machine to automatically connect to my Wireless (Linksys Router based) network? In the Aiport Network settings, I have set:

"By default, join: A specified network"
<my_network>
<password>

I had that problem once too. Where you have put "join a specified network" you have to change it back to automatic.

If you are worried that it will connect to someone else's network, I don't know this for sure, but in my experience it always connects to the last network it was on, even if other people's SSIDs are visible.

Also it will remember the password in the KeyChain, so even though there is no password on the screen there it will be able to get on your encypted network.

I think that part of the GUI is badly designed. It combines the fact of what to join and whether to join automatically in to one GUI control but they should be separate.

 

[frez]

Limited Edition .. you are truly a limited edition.

Changed it to automatic and it works wonderfully .. thanks!

2 days with OSX and so far so good.

Now I descend into the rabbit hole (so I've heard) that is:
networking my windows machine with my osx machine