Q: Lion WiFi Connection Problem

Been having problems with wifi being unavailable since upgrading to Lion.  Upon booting up, the icon was grayed out and couldn't turn on wifi.  Had to click Restart to get the wifi to turn on.  However, just discovered something quite serendipitously.  Last week, turned on my bluetooth keyboard and mouse, but forgot to turn on my mid-2010 iMac until about 30 seconds later.  The wifi was on!  Been testing this out for the past week and, if I just wait about 10 or 15 seconds after turning on my bluetooth devices prior to turning on the computer, the wifi is always connected just fine.  Apparently, in my situation, the bluetooth interferes with the wifi. 

Hope this helps someone.

Have uninstalled Lion! Yay!

No more wifi disconnection!

Will now ask for a refund and forget the whole bad experience...

Good luck with the refund. You rushed in and purchased it and have used it. In the meantime cheers wallowing in the past while the millions of happy Lion users enjoy all the future updates that will not be available to SL users.

Cheers

Not to do with past or future or 'wallowing' either for that matter.

Only to do with working and not working.

I have faith that software developers will come up with a useable-for-all solution very soon.

I'll keep an eye on the feedback and up to date with what's proving useful and what's not just I have since starting with a Mac 19 years ago.

A guess a reasonable assessment of what is useful for each user is more pragmatic than all-out Apple devotion and some people find that a funny concept but there's no accounting for taste.

A refund and an apology have been offered: an admission of a problem?

I heartily recommend that anyone who has had similar problems insist they are put right or refuse the product in the interests of contributing to Apple's continuing commitment to customer satisfaction.

Giving open feedback and buying the goods ones and refusing the bad ones will only improve products in the future.

I usually wait until a new OS has had time to get the bugs out - but I think Apple hyped this so much, it was practically irresistable, as well as the fact that it was a download situation (which made it so convenient).  Had to order a new Snow Leopard cause I can't find the original DVD........should arrive today.  Now, I just hope that going back to Snow Leopard won't affect all of the software updates I had to get to accommodate LION!  I'll go back to it when they fix it - and like I said in previous post, I have three other Macs that are working fine with LION.  Just not my MBP 2.8GHz.

Hope it works well for you.

Thomas Hiller, how did you manage to uninstall Lion?? I have been trying for days! I received a refund so u shouldn't have an issue. mulligans seems to be sticking his pompous nose into your discussion as well. What a bitter fool.

I simply restored from my last Time Machine 10.6.8 back up that I had from a couple of weeks ago.

I didn't have anything unsaved I needed to carry over from this last (and teh longest) Lion experiment so I didn't have to worry about losing anything.

I actually thought this time I wouldn't need to go back again, but after reseting everything possible, clearing out lots of files from an old iBook incarnation of my computer and trying every fix suggested by AppleCare I gave up.

Not to worry, anyhow. 10.6.8 works fine and something new and better will inevitably come along again as it always does.

I was hoping these forums would just be to share experiences, not an opportunity to express sanctimoniousness. Doesn't help move the game forward much.

I shouldn't worry too much about 'mulligans missus'. Only if I was 'mulligan' ;o)

Funny thing is it turns out as I went through my accounts and iTunes purchase history that I was refunded for Lion the first time I had a problem with it at the end of last summer. The second two short trials in October and in December, it appears, were free. That's something at least!

Good luck with your restore. Perhaps you could save anything important to another location and then bring it back onto your machine.

I'm no expert, though and would ask AppleCare for any advice if you have it.

They, although unable to solve the issues, were very helpful. I think in future I might get a new Mac every 2 two years and sell on the old one with a year's AppleCare left.

Anyway thanks for your contribution.

Why buy a new Mac every two years if you are unable to handle the default OS? Over 6 Million happy users and you think Apple are going to throw it in because a few people can't get used to a few changes? Welcome to the future. Sounds like its time to do some serious maintenance on yor computer, and for those who want to go backwards there is a little box here saying search, fairly easy to use where this has been discuss since last June by othere like yourselves......yawn,

Night

Need I say this?

No not really, but I shall do it anyway.

Reading back I am not the first to do so.

I think, mulligans missus, it is plain to see your self-righteous comments are now unwelcome.

One has to wonder why if someone has nothing pleasant, helpful or constructive to offer are they wasting time posting?

I have posted help on this topic elsewhere, I just can't believe that a 'chosen few' refuse to look outside this thread and indeed these forums and realize that this is not an issue for the Hugh percentage of people using Lion, that it is strange that only the few people posting over and over here are having this issue and making claims that Apple have aknowledges it (where?) and that you are dissapointed that it is not a worldwide problem. Use Snow Leopard or Windows if you want. No one else cares and no one else will miss you. It will stop these old useless threads repeating the same whinging everyday.

Cheer Up

Troll much?

Off-topic, rude and surplus to requirements once again, mm.

Please give it a rest now...

I sympathise, I am having hellish problems with my wifi since installing Lion from Snow LP.  I am not a techi so I will explain as best I can.  We have two iphones and an ipad2 in the house all connect fine to the house wifi.  My router and line have all been tested by my ISP and they work fine, but the imac keeps dropping the connection, I have spent hours on the phone to applecare who after doing various things came to the conclusion that it was the airport card that was faulty.  So I pack up the 27" imac and go to the apple store, they tested the machine and said there was nothing wrong  with the airport card.  So back to square one! 

I am a huge Apple fan but am really frustrated by this problem and dont know what to do next!  I have unistalled and reinstalled Lion, through the Applecare they have deleted "plists" but the problem still continues!

The last resort is to revert to Snow LP.

The above posters have saved so many people's system and hardware problems within this thread, I am sure they will resolve this for you.

Cheerio and goodnight

mulligans missuss,

just get off this thread. we get it you have no problems with your mac and lion. great. good for you; either present a solution that is viable instead of middle school responses of go elsewhere. You show your age or lack of maturity in your responses. We really don't need someone like you taking up space in this thread.

to those having wifi issues,after trying all solutions with no resolutions by resetting PRAMs, SMC, deleting plist files, clicking this and that, reloading lion, tearing apart macbook  to hard reset or replace airport card, downgrading firmwares or OS,  right now the only real work around to save yourself time is to hard wire your mac in, get a wireless adapter that is talked about on page 104($35-$100 fix), or get the suggested usb card i wrote on page 105, and 106(about $10 fix).

Not sure if the next update to Lion is going to tackle the wifi issue, from all the rumor sites who get developer upgrades and report known issues. just trying to throw out a quick solution and your time to what seems like becoming a common but hellacious problem with lion.