Since Snow Leopard Unable to turn off Airport on MBP

Just to clarify, you see the wireless indicator in your menu bar, BUT, when you click it and choose *Turn Airport Off*, it stays active?

Hi,

Thanks for opeining this thread Russ... If you don't mind I post again what I have posted in another thread before:

I have the same problem as RussJP, aka can't turn airport off an I run an account with admin rights.
I think this is an upgrade bug as prior upgrading to 10.6, I had the option "Require administrator password to Turn Airport off and on" checked. After upgrade, the option was no more checked.
I reinstalled SL above itself, but no more luck.
Note that when I open the terminal and type "ifconfig en1 down", the airport is disabled correctly. I can also enable it with "ifconfig en1 up".

If interested I created an apple script to automate the thing... But it is definitely not a solution I like.

<code>
set isConnected to false
try
with timeout of 15 seconds
set reply to do shell script "/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Apple80211.framework/Versions/Current/Resour ces/airport -I" password "myPassword" with administrator privileges
if reply contains "state: running" then set isConnected to true
end timeout
end try

if isConnected then
do shell script "ifconfig en1 down" password "myPassword" with administrator privileges
else
do shell script "ifconfig en1 up" password "myPassword" with administrator privileges
end if
</code>

Makes sense! Be sure to send feedback to Apple on it 🙂

HI,

Repair disk permissions and see if that helps.

Quit any open applications/programs. Launch Disk Utility. (Applications/Utilities) Select MacintoshHD in the panel on the left, select the FirstAid tab. Click: Repair Disk Permissions. When it's finished from the Menu Bar, Quit Disk Utility and restart your Mac. If you see a long list of "messages" in the permissions window, it's ok. That can be ignored. As long as you see, "Permissions Repair Complete" when it's finished... you're done. Quit Disk Utility and restart your Mac.






Carolyn 🙂

Yep I got the same problem. A pretty big bug on apples part. Do people test software like they used too?

Hi am having the exact same issue reported here.

I have a C2D 2.16Ghz MBP that came with Tiger. I archive installed leopard and I upgrade to snow leopard.

The setting I had in leopard would prompt me for admin password to turn on/off airport. Now it simply does nothing. I can connect to everything but I am unable to turn airport off.

I will give Repair Permissions a shot and see what happens.

I have the same problem since upgrading to Snow leopard, can't turn off Airport. Tried turning it off through the menu bar and under Network in System Preferences.

Try this.
Launch the Network System pref pane.
Remove Airport (click the - sign)
Click OK/Apply.
Now, add it back.
Does it work now?

This works in both directions. I had my airport off, with "Require Admin password to turn Airport off and on" checked, when I installed Snow Leopard. Now I can't turn it on. I'll try to remove and replace the Airport and report back.

Repairing permission did not fix this issue.

This was a problem that kept popping up during test.
If you are experiencing this problem please report it to Apple, if possible send the system profile of your Mac.
To get system profile of your Mac click "about this mac", click on "more info...", then on the file menu choose "save as ..."
This will help you have a short lived problem.

Im also unable to turn it off ... and this may be unrelated, but whenever I use safari, it kills the download speed of any other apps I have going, not to mention seemingly slowing down everything else, too.

But most importantly, Id like to be able to turn my airport off