Strange MacBook Wifi problem...
I bought brand new aluminum MacBook just a few days ago. I have a Wifi setup at home which working with several Windows computers and also with my old iBook G4 without any problems. New MacBook have problem even to see network. What is strange that I test MacBook on three other locations and it is working without flaws. One location uses same router model as I have (Vigor2900VG). I had one day when I can use wifi for whole day here but that been only once.
It doesn't see even other networks in the neighborhood but only here in one particular location. I investigated in the system log and I found this:
Nov 24 22:31:39 klifton kernel[0]: en1: 802.11d country code set to 'X3'.
Nov 24 22:31:39 klifton kernel[0]: en1: Supported channels 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 36 40 44 48 52 56 60 64 100 104 108 112 116 120 124 128 132 136 140
Nov 24 22:31:39 klifton kernel[0]: en1: 802.11d country code set to 'SY'.
Nov 24 22:31:39 klifton kernel[0]: en1: Supported channels 149 153 157 161
Nov 24 22:31:40 klifton kernel[0]: directed SSID scan fail
Nov 24 22:31:47 klifton airportd[2499]: Error: Apple80211Associate() failed -6
Nov 24 22:31:47 klifton airportd[2499]: Already scanned all remembered channels for "sad"; not found.
Nov 24 22:31:47 klifton airportd[2499]: Could not find any preferred networks; trying broadcast requests..
Nov 24 22:31:48 klifton airportd[2499]: Broadcast requests also failed..
Nov 24 22:31:49 klifton airportd[2499]: Probing highest ranked networks via directed scan..
It seems that wifi card is set to some strange country and it start to use channels which my router doesn't have. Do anybody have experience with this?
I tried all basic things like changing channels on router. Switched to different standards (b,g,mixed). Play around with security settings etc.
Marian
MacBook, Mac OS X (10.5.5)