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After updating to 10.7.3 WiFi does not reconnect after waking up from sleep

I bought my iMac 21" i5 late 2011 before christmas, and it came with 10.7.2 and never had any problem with WiFi, but last week I installed the 10.7.3 update via the Software Update menu under Apple logo, the update was about 500~600mb.


Now I leave my iMac turned on and after when I come back it slept, I click on my magic mouse like I always do, it wake up, but the WiFi is disconnected, if I click on the WiFi icon, it is acctually not turned off it says on first item Wi-Fi: On, and show my Wifi network and others, it is just not associated. It I click on my network it connect and everything works. But this is really annoying me.

iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3)

Posted on Feb 6, 2012 6:18 PM

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Feb 8, 2012 8:38 AM in response to Giutarfoder

Giutarfoder wrote:


Vitimtk

Reboot and press option key

Opens startup manager where you can select the required volume to reinstall

All my apps and docs were still there only had to reinstall the printer

Which option have you chosen?



It appear 2 volumes "Macintosh HD" and "Recovery HD", I entered the recoveryUser uploaded file

Reinstall seems to erase all my stuff, isn't that right? which option I'm supposed to choose? I not have time machine configured.

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curiously my Wifi network doesn't appeared on the bios menu, and I'm not sure why, and is showing others wifi very far from my house, on iPad you can see that the network is fine.

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I clicked on the "..." and typed my network SSID and WEP, but not connected.


After the Reinstall menu my network appeared and many others.

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I also turned my other Wireless Repeater off before this tests.

Feb 8, 2012 3:18 PM in response to Vitimtk

Here is something I wrote in another thread... I could honestly say I have no problems connecing to wifi when waking the computer. If you go to System Prefences and Network, choose your network; put a check mark in the box that says "Show Wifi status in menu bar," next click the advanced buton, Under Preferred Networks, minus out of all the networks, and put a check mark where it says "remember networks this computer has joined."


It is that simple. If you have trouble, then you just select the wifi symbol that looks like a tornado (that you now have) located next to the time on the menu bar.


I really wish you shared my joy with Lion, because, while I have had minor (fixable) issues that I have accomplished, Lion is really great. And I wish you shared my sentiment or at least tried to utilize 10.7.3 or use recovery assistant to get you back to optimum. The Recovery Disk Assistant is reached by starting the computer from starting the computer and holding down the Command + R keys at the same time, and reinstalling Lion from the server, (not TimeMachine), it could also be found in your utility folder.

Feb 10, 2012 7:43 AM in response to Vitimtk

Immediately after updating to 10.7.3 automatic reconnect to wifi after sleep no longer works.

Did not have this problem prior to the upgrade with 10.7.2.

As per some recommendations I then downloaded and installed the complete 10.7.3 version

and also installed the combo version. None of this cured the problem.

I should clarify that waking the iMac by using the wireless keyboard or magic mouse fails

to reconnect, however, waking the giant by pressing the power button works fine every time.

So it appears that 10.7.3 is a rotten apple and I'm beginning to wonder if Apple's QA group is awake.


iMac 21.5", i5, 12GB, late 2011, Mac OS x Lion 10.7.3 combo

After updating to 10.7.3 WiFi does not reconnect after waking up from sleep

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