My MAC mini looses the wi-fi connection to a Belkin N wireless router when it goes to sleep or shut down. I have to re select the network when restarting or waking the computer up. I think this just started with Lion. My iPod and iPad have no trouble.

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My MAC mini looses the wi-fi connection to a Belkin N wireless router when it goes to sleep or shut down. I have to re select the network when restarting or waking the computer up. I think this just started with Lion. My iPod and iPad have no trouble.

My MAC MINI looses the wi-fi connection to a Belkin N wireless router when it goes to sleep or shuts down. I have to re select the network when re starting or waking up the computer. I think this just started with LION. My iPod and iPad have no problem remembering the wireless network.

Mac mini, Mac OS X (10.7.3)

Posted on Feb 16, 2012 4:38 PM

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BGreg

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Feb 16, 2012 5:35 PM in response to Honoring Life

There is a Lion 10.7.3 issue with the system not connecting after waking up from sleep. Apple engineers are working on a fix for the next release. The manual work around is to click on the wireless icon then choose your network. Sometimes I find I have to wait a few seconds for the network list to populate.

I don't normally shut my system down, so I can't comment on that part of your question.

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Feb 16, 2012 8:09 PM in response to BGreg

Thank you BGreg. That is what I have been doing, and then it works just fine. I think it was doing the same thing in the previous version of Lion. I may be incorrect about that. I upgraded to 10.7.3 a few weeks ago, and then last week I reloaded the combo update, hoping it would help. Not so. Thank you for letting me know it is a common problem. I have tried permissions in Disk Utilities, and in Macaroni, both at least 4 times, plus numerous restarts. Nothing Improves. It still can not find the internet when it wakes up or gets up.

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