Airport doesn't auto join anymore

I have the same problem. X.5.2 didn't fix it.

I've been very frustrated with what it says in the System Preferences that it'll auto joined preferred Network, but doesn't perform. The manual clicking to join/connect is not ideal for my daily ease of use.

I read many pages discussing this issue, but majority hasn't fix this, so I am quite confident that it's Leopard bugs. I spent 2 days reading and trying many ways, but my MacBook still won't auto join my preferred network after logged in, sleep, restart... Is there any freeware can do this?

I managed to resolve "Auto join preferred network", by doing this (found in MacNN Forum)
:

Keychain Utilities Access
Your network should be in both the login and system keychains

Enter both entries and, under the Access Control tab, give all applications access to the password.

(Try to repair keychain and verify it, I got a pop up keychain asking me to confirm Airport usage during the first time, I click ok and try to tell keychain not to lock itself)

Now, my Airport manage to auto join preferred network without any manual clicking in Leopard!


I wonder why Apple's Leopard team never tested this/fix this before? I am pretty sure many others are out there stucked with this problem.

I'm experiencing the same problem with my Apple TV. Every time I connect I must fill in the networkspec's..Very frustrating ..Somebody got a solution..??