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OS X Lion Wireless Issues

I am getting quite frustrated.


I have done everything I can. The issue is that when my iMac or MBP returns from sleep mode or starts up from a shutdown state, the wireless connection to my network does not happen automatically.


I have ensured it is the first in the list of my prefered networks.


The only way to make it connect is to actually select it from the list and voila! I'm on the network again. This is rather frustrating. Considering my iMac doesn't really shut down at all. I have the screen go off after a certain time period, but I still would like to access the darn thing from my MBP when I need certain bits of data from it.


Has anyone experienced this issue?


Regards,


Yanki

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7)

Posted on Jul 25, 2011 11:37 AM

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Aug 6, 2011 9:40 AM in response to Liz in LA

My partner is experiencing the same issue on his iMac (the latest) which was upgraded to Lion from Snow Leopard.


However, I have the latest MacBook Air that came pre-installed with Lion from the start. The problem does not occur on this machine.


Which makes me wonder if the bug only occurs on machines that were upgraded from Snow Leopard to Lion (not a pre-install or clean install of Lion).

Aug 13, 2011 10:40 PM in response to Toronto Photographer

We have 2 iMacs, MacBook and Apple TV and this new Lion software is completely screwing our wireless connection/home-sharing up. Apple Tv hardly ever works, because it can't 'find' our computers or will just die halfway through looking at something, saying that it can't find the computer. Plus, we can't file-share most of the time, and everytime i try to print something (which is also wireless, but goes from the other computer in the house) i can't, because my iMac, has issues with finding the other iMac in the house. And we had never had these problems until the moment we installed Lion. Please help, it's so frustrating!!!

Aug 13, 2011 11:35 PM in response to Toronto Photographer

Folks

there is a solution but it involves replacing Lion's kernel extensions for Airport with those from Snow Leopard - see my post at https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2644274?answerId=15917492022#15917492022 on page 32 or so. Be warned that some would recommend against such a strategy, but I now have a rock-solid wireless network under LIon whereas for the first 3 weeks I was also ready to throw laptop out the window!

related posts on "wifi constantly dropping in Lion" at https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3190651?answerId=15917496022#15917496022


good luck with it

Aug 14, 2011 3:56 AM in response to NateOne

Hello NateOne and Everybody,


My partner contacted technical support in Japan and this issue was not documented. It has now been raised a level and the top engineers are looking into it.


I also spoke to the person from technical support and mentioned this thread as proof of how others are having issues.


The best thing to do is to contact Apple's technical support so it gets on the radar of Apple throughout the world, otherwise there will be no fix with the next upgrade.


So, I ask all to help by contacting technical support! 🙂


Cheers! 🙂


Darren

Japan

Sep 25, 2011 2:02 PM in response to Toronto Photographer

Had the same issue on a 2009 MacBook Pro after I upgraded to OS X Lion. Called Apple Support. They chalked it up to a corruption when upgrading. Had me:


1) trash the '/Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration' folder

2) empty the Trash

3) shutdown the computer and leave shutdown for 30 seconds

4) startup the computer and select my network from Airport

5) put the computer to sleep, wait 30 seconds

6) wake the computer and ensure that Airport had established a connection to the network and set my network as the preferred network (as it had)


Problem fixed.


Hope this helps.

Oct 21, 2011 1:31 PM in response to Toronto Photographer

I've got a 2010 macbook air. Upgraded to Lion - wireless problems, even with 10.7.2.


I've got a 2010 macbook pro. Upgraded to Lion - wireless problems, again, with all iterations of 10.7, including 10.7.2


Got a brand new macbook pro 17 inch, upgraded to Lion - you guessed it: Lion wirelless problems.


What happens is well documented: the computer gets a signal, but then losses the connection a minute or two later.


I've downgraded the Macbook air and 2011 Macbook pro to Snow Leopard and no problems whatsoever.


LION HAS A SERIOUS FLAW IN THE WAY IT CONNECTS TO WIRELESS. I'm just amazed Apple released this and then, hasnt' been able to fix it yet.


They're all about the CLOUD!!! and yet, their new cloud-based OS has serious problems connecting to the internet?!?! That's seriously lame.

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