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

Well for whatever reason mine has stopped doing it. I did nothing but keep up with software updates, so... strange.

Joe,

Thank you for this. After deleting (renaming) the prefs file and reconstituting the network profiles, connection was practically instantaneous when the Air awoke. I'll keep my fingers crossed that this holds together!

-- Tom

Mine suddenly worked perfectly for a couple months, and just started acting up again. Oye.

Also having random wifi issues after upgrading to Lion (10.7) on a new 2011 iMac. Sometimes i'll boot my Mac and it can't find my Time Capsule wifi for some reason. The older Macbook Pro a few feet away that is still running Snow Leopard (10.6) seems to have no problems with wifi. I might as well plug a network cable from the iMac to the Time Capsule just to avoid this for now.

It takes 1 min 20 seconds for my Macbook Pro to connect to the WiFi after sleep or startup. There seems to be nothing I can do to speed it up. I just have to sit and watch. With Snow Leopard it connected to WiFi instantaneously on wake-up.

Just talked to Apple Care. They said that it is still an issue for some people even with 10.7.2.

Anyone with this issue should log it into apple.com/feedback to make it more of a high priority for Apple to fix.

The iChat password issue when waking from sleep is still affecting me for a couple of accounts even with 10.7.2. It's a real pain.

Just want to add my voice to this thread, in the hope Apple is reading this:

I'm seeing the same behavior on my 2011 13" Macbook Air, 1.8, i7 running 10.7.2

After waking from sleep (usually opening the lid), there is no connection to the network. Sometimes I get the message 'none of your preferred networks can be found'. Select the network, sometimes it connects, sometimes it doesn't, sometimes it asks for the WPA Password (apparently there's an issue with the WEP passwords and this issue), sometimes it doesn't.

Have only had the MBA for a couple of weeks, this is the first Apple product I've ever owned that has failed to 'just work'.

My network uses an Airport Extreme, and today my MacPro, MacBook Pro 17", iPad2 all connected to the network automatically after being woken from sleep. Just as they do every time. The only one that doesn't is the 2011 MacBook Air 13".

I've gotten all the way up to a senior advisor on Apple Care. We reset the Keychains, the System Configurations, basically set the machine as if it had never seen a network. And today, the issue persists.

I have calls into the advisor to let him know, will post here if I get anything helpful.

Have done so... mine is 2011 MBP

about your FF problem:

had the same but went to trackpad settings and found new gestures which use 3finger swipe. changed them to 4 and now back and forward in FF work!

MBP i7. Everything was fine until the recent firmware update. Now I'm having problems with both WEP and WPA routers at work and home. I have to turn the wifi off, then on, then wait about 60 seconds. In this time, usually an error msg about 'not connecting to wifi' pops up.

I am a heavy user - at least 10 hours a day on my laptop, usually more. This started exactly after the firmware update. I am unhappy.

Then report your problem. If it's a widespread issue Apple will have to do something about it. http://www.apple.com/feedback/macbookpro.html

At the moment, the 10.7.3 developer build seems to have fixed my wifi issue.

Scratch that. Busted again. Sigh.