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Wifi constantly crashing since upgrade

OK this is getting unusable ... every 10 maybe 15 minutes at the most i get the spinning wheel and my whole system freezes for 15 / 20 seconds and then it comes back to life but the wifi is hunting.

This has only happened since upgrading tonight.. Tips anyone ?

Macbook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6)

Posted on Sep 2, 2009 2:22 PM

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Sep 2, 2009 2:40 PM in response to Donald Palmer

Not a lot, there now seems to be some Vodafone program trying to constantly start which i don't have installed , which i've never noticed before

02/09/2009 22:39:45 com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[206] (cn.com.zte.usbswapper.plist[1731]) posix_spawn("/Applications/Vodafone Mobile Connect/Vodafone Mobile Connect.app/Contents/Resources/Specific/Mac SwapperDemon.app/Contents/MacOS/MacSwapperDemon", ...): No such file or directory

Sep 2, 2009 3:26 PM in response to LCaller

OK i just managed to watch the log as it happened

02/09/2009 23:24:14 kernel AirPort: Link Down on en1. Reason 4 (Disassociated due to inactivity).
02/09/2009 23:24:14 kernel vmnet: bridge-en1: interface en is going DOWN
02/09/2009 23:24:15 configd[13] network configuration changed.
02/09/2009 23:24:15 vmnet-bridge[164] Examining network configuration.
02/09/2009 23:24:15 vmnet-bridge[164] Intf: en2
02/09/2009 23:24:15 vmnet-bridge[164] Turning off bridge for: en1
02/09/2009 23:24:15 vmnet-bridge[164] Turning on bridge for: en2
02/09/2009 23:24:15 configd[13] setting hostname to "Lee-MBP.local"
02/09/2009 23:24:15 kernel vmnet: VMNetDisconnect called for port 0x133f0b00
02/09/2009 23:24:15 kernel vmnet: bridge-en1: filter detached
02/09/2009 23:24:15 kernel vmnet: bridge-en1: down
02/09/2009 23:24:15 kernel vmnet: bridge-en1: detached
02/09/2009 23:24:15 kernel vmnet: Freeing hub at 0x8d13000.
02/09/2009 23:24:15 kernel vmnet: VNetUserIf_Create: created userIf at 0x133c6e00.
02/09/2009 23:24:15 kernel vmnet: VMNetConnect: returning port 0x133c6e00
02/09/2009 23:24:15 kernel vmnet: Hub 0 does not exist, allocating memory.
02/09/2009 23:24:15 kernel vmnet: Allocated hub 0x8d13000 for hubNum 0.
02/09/2009 23:24:15 kernel vmnet: VMNET SOBINDTOHUB: port: paddr 00:50:56:f1:02:e3
02/09/2009 23:24:15 kernel vmnet: Hub 0
02/09/2009 23:24:15 kernel vmnet: Port 0
02/09/2009 23:24:15 kernel vmnet: bridge-en2: got dev 0x8d98c04
02/09/2009 23:24:15 kernel vmnet: bridge-en2: up
02/09/2009 23:24:15 kernel vmnet: bridge-en2: attached
02/09/2009 23:24:15 kernel vmnet: VNetUserIfFree: freeing userIf at 0x133c6e00.

Sep 2, 2009 4:12 PM in response to LCaller

What's your Wi-Fi router? AirPort? Something else?

The suspicious bit in the log is this:

<pre>AirPort: Link Down on en1. Reason 4 (Disassociated due to inactivity).</pre>

Some routers will disassociate clients once they have been idle for a prescribed amount of time (some as few as two to three minutes.)

This disassociation and the need to reassociate is likely what you're seeing.

Sep 7, 2009 10:52 AM in response to Dogcow-Moof

Gents,

I am having the same "disassociation" issue but mine is a definite driver/OS issue with 10.6 SL. I receive this message every 5 to 15 minutes:
9/7/09 1:24:16 PM kernel AirPort: Link Down on en1. Reason 4 (Disassociated due to inactivity).

I have a macbook that has been on my home network for years, I have not changed anything there. The Macbook stays online fine but is running Leopard. Of my 5 Wi-Fi devices, this new MBP with SL is the only one dropping connection so I am sure it is not my router.

I am considering installing Leopard to prove my point.

Apple Support....Please fix this Airport driver issue in 10.6.

Sep 7, 2009 11:43 AM in response to badair

badair wrote:
I am having the same "disassociation" issue but mine is a definite driver/OS issue with 10.6 SL. I receive this message every 5 to 15 minutes:
9/7/09 1:24:16 PM kernel AirPort: Link Down on en1. Reason 4 (Disassociated due to inactivity).

I have a macbook that has been on my home network for years, I have not changed anything there. The Macbook stays online fine but is running Leopard. Of my 5 Wi-Fi devices, this new MBP with SL is the only one dropping connection so I am sure it is not my router.

I am considering installing Leopard to prove my point.


Reinstalling Leopard proves nothing.

I'll ask you the same question - does the inactivity timeout still occur if you are actively using the interface, say streaming an Internet radio station in the background? Or just when you're doing nothing say using an application that doesn't use the Internet?

Wifi constantly crashing since upgrade

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