so my internet isn't working on my pro, it says my airport card isn't installed but i have had my mac for about 2 years now and have been using wireless internet the whole time. Its not my internet, because there is another macbook in my house and it is working fine.
I just booted up a brand new macbook pro 15" that costs around 2,5K USD in Sweden.
I started boot camp and installed windows 7, now the Aiport card can´t be found and it´s like it physically does not exist. After reading the forums about all the other people having the same problem and no one having an answer for this problem I guess that it´s a known hardware problem.
I have a white macbook, with this machine the problem was that the USB port was messed up, when I connected certain USB things like hard drives and USB port multipliers it simply started destroying the internal hard drive (going into some weird catatonic state where the drive just keeps spinning). This fried the internal hard drive 3 times, each time I got it replaced by mac support.
This time it seems like the wifi hardware is messed up and I will have to go to the store and demand a new computer to get it fixxed. I buy Mac because I don´t want to "RESET MY PRAM" or "START OPEN THE CLIENT AND FLASH THE SYSCONFIG AND REPROGRAM THE BLABLABLA". I am sick of that crap, just want it to work. Big dissappointment.
Unplug the Macbook
Remove the battery
wait a minute
reinstall the battery
plug the Macbook back in
hold down the power button until the long tone is heard (5 seconds)
This resets the power management system
Should solve the issue.....it did for me!
