2 Lion Problems: Waking from Sleep Doesn't Go to Wifi Network; & Can No Longer Finger Swipe in Firefox to Move Backward/Forward

I'm also having the same problem with my 2009 iMac's and 2009 MacBook Pro's. I can always connect if I manually go in and select my network, but when it goes to sleep it disconnects from the network again. This only started happening after I installed OS X Lion. Never had an issue before with Snow Leopard. Hopefully a patch is on the way seeing that multiple people are dealing with this problem.

My workaround is to simply toggle the wifi off and on from the menu bar. Sounds similar to your solution.

Similar problem here, but I have observed that although neither Safari nor Firefox can get onto the net, I am able to ping external servers from the command line. Bizarre and frustrating. I also have an older MB Pro.

Also WiFi issue here, except that it does show it is connected. However, I cannot connect to anything (not even the router). Disabling and enabling Airport fixes this, but it is annoying.

As for the swiping: get MagicPrefs; you can set up swipe preferences for a magic mouse (and magic trackpad and macbook trackpad) there.

I'm also having problems with my wi-fi when I wake from sleep mode. I'm using a Late 15-inch, Late 2008 MBP and encountering an issue where my wi-fi is looking for a connection but cannot seem to find my network or any other for that matter. Some people have mentioned using the toggle for turning wifi on/off but if I do that it doesn't stop looking for wifi. While this is happening, the machine barely responds so opening up any program is useless as it will not open. I can't even shut down and restart the computer because it seems to grind to a halt.

This morning I found that if I plugged in an ethernet connection that it seems to help and it starts responding again after a minute or so. I'm guessing that patches need to be applied to Lion for this to be fixed. In the meantime I thought I would jump on the bandwagon here and report that this wi-fi issue is happening to several users.

I am also having the wifi issue and am using Airport router. It would seem that this only happens to me when the disk sleeps as I have disabled this when laptop is plugged in. So in recap, only when on battery and macbook "deep sleeps" have I had this issue.

Also it should be noted that simply turning off the wifi and back on is no fast process.... it lags like crazy.

if not addressed soon I will reload reload 10.6. Where are you and what have you done to my beloved Macbook Pro, Apple?????????????

I'm also seeing wifi issues with lion on mid-2009 15" 2.66ghz MBP.

Basically, if I put my computer to sleep, once, after booting, wifi will connect, and browsers will work just fine. But any subsequent time I put the computer to sleep, browsers will fail to see that they have an internet connection upon waking. Now, this is with the menu icon showing its connected, and I've even verified that the connection works by successfully pinging google/yahoo/amazon/etc. from the terminal while both safari and chrome fail to load webpages, saying I'm not connected.

I've not been able to notice and specific length of time issues relating to sleep/wake that might be causing the problem either. First time it sleeps, its fine, second, third, etc., browsers won't work until wifi has been power cycled.

I've tried the common wifi troubleshooting methods too, manual TCP/IP settings, adding DNS servers (google's DNS servers, 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.1.1) removing and re-adding the wifi networks, re-ordering the services list, and the wifi networks list, etc.

So then I thought it might be related to saved application states, but when I tried disabling them entirely it didn't solve the issue either.

Yes, I have tried and verified that rebooting the router works too, just like power-cycling wifi, but the issue comes back after every first sleep/wake cycle.

And I don't consider resetting/rebooting the router every time the computer sleeps to be a viable solution. I don't even consider having to power-cycle wifi a "solution" since my laptop never had this issue on Leopard or Snow leopard, this was clearly an issue introduced with Lion for me.

Also, somewhat related (and this might actually be an issue with saved-application states) is iChat also forgetting passwords if I don't "log off" before I quit the program. E.g., if I use command-Q to close iChat, whenever I next open iChat, it asks for my passwords for all of my chat accounts, every time. Now if I physically go to the menu and choose "log off" and then use command-Q to quit, the next time I open iChat it will remember my passwords, and automatically connect just fine.

This is on a totally clean install of Lion btw, so there are no keychain issues, the passwords were all verified correct when I setup the accounts too.

I'm really hoping this gets fixed quickly, and will gladly try other suggestions if anyone has them.

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Just in case someone needs to know my system is:

15-inch, Late 2008 5,1

2.53 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo

4 GB 1067 MHz DDR3

NVIDIA GeForce 9400M 256 MB

Mac OS X Lion 10.7 (11A511)

Same problem here with WiFi when waking from sleep. Brand new Macbook Air, fresh install of Lion. ******* me off.

Ok, regarding the "Wake to sleep = No internet connection" problem under OSX Lion I discovered a few things.

- Whenever my mac puts itself to sleep the problem seems not to occur.

- Removing my WD 2 TB external harddisk, using for time machine backups, solves the problem instantly.

- Instead of disabling wifi and enabling it again, selecting "make Time machine backup now" ( Time machine icon,

upperright under startup items) also enables Internet again.

So, like some others also concluded, it seems to be Time Machine related ????

I have never used the gestures but I am also one that has issues with the wifi. It is extremely frustrating to have to reconnect your wifi every morning. Yes I know that it's only 2 clicks but it was perfect before upgrading to Lion...

Especially since I spend most of my time on the road and Logmein to it, once it's offline, nothing is going to wake it up.... Grrrrr!