John Callahan1

Q: Safari comes up with strange Cisco screen asking for password.

Safari comes up with strange Cisco screen asking for password. I've never, to my knowledge had anything to do with Cisco. Please help, Cisco says they are investigating but for two days now I haven't been able to get on internet.  This is on my G4 running 10.4.11 Thank you

iMac Intel 20 in., Mac OS X (10.5.8), PowerBook G4 - 400 Titanium, PowerMac G4 QuickSilver (2002), Du

Posted on Apr 12, 2012 3:38 PM

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  • by BDAqua,Solvedanswer

    BDAqua BDAqua Apr 12, 2012 4:14 PM in response to John Callahan1
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    Apr 12, 2012 4:14 PM in response to John Callahan1

    Are you connecting, or attempting to using Airport/Wifi?

     

    10.4 directions which vary slightly for 10.5, but...

     

    Go to System Preferences

     

    Click Network

     

    Highlight AirPort and click Configure...

     

    Choose “By default, join: Preferred networks”

     

    Select your access point and Remove your access point with the minus button.

     

    Launch your keychain access in Utilities and delete your access point keychain entry.

     

    Reboot

     

    Go back to the “By default, join:” page and click the plus this time to add your access point. Enter the correct password, save, reboot.

     

    Instead of joining it from the list, click the WiFi icon at the top, and click join other network. Fill in everything as needed.

  • by John Callahan1,

    John Callahan1 John Callahan1 Apr 12, 2012 5:19 PM in response to BDAqua
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    Apr 12, 2012 5:19 PM in response to BDAqua

    Amazing! Thanks so much.

  • by BDAqua,Helpful

    BDAqua BDAqua Apr 12, 2012 5:21 PM in response to John Callahan1
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    Apr 12, 2012 5:21 PM in response to John Callahan1

    Great news John, thanks!

  • by John Callahan1,

    John Callahan1 John Callahan1 Apr 12, 2012 5:28 PM in response to BDAqua
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    Apr 12, 2012 5:28 PM in response to BDAqua

    Sorry, jumped the gun. Rebooted and am back to the Cisco screen.

  • by John Callahan1,

    John Callahan1 John Callahan1 Apr 12, 2012 5:35 PM in response to John Callahan1
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    Apr 12, 2012 5:35 PM in response to John Callahan1

    Airport selects wrong network. Selected proper network and Cisco screen is gone?

  • by BDAqua,Helpful

    BDAqua BDAqua Apr 12, 2012 6:30 PM in response to John Callahan1
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    Apr 12, 2012 6:30 PM in response to John Callahan1

    Open System Preferences>Network>Show:>Airport>Airport tab>Options button, uncheck Automatically add new Networks to preferred network list, & maybe a couple other choices do check, click OK, hen remove the Cisco one if it shows by highlighting it & clicking the little minus icon below.

     

    It appears there's a new stronger signal from a neighbor's Cisco Router nearby.

  • by John Callahan1,

    John Callahan1 John Callahan1 Apr 15, 2012 5:41 PM in response to BDAqua
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    Apr 15, 2012 5:41 PM in response to BDAqua

    This procedure did the trick. Thanks again

  • by BDAqua,

    BDAqua BDAqua Apr 15, 2012 5:50 PM in response to John Callahan1
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    Apr 15, 2012 5:50 PM in response to John Callahan1

    Woo Hoo, great to hear, thanks John!

  • by itasarah,

    itasarah itasarah Nov 24, 2013 11:12 PM in response to John Callahan1
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    Nov 24, 2013 11:12 PM in response to John Callahan1

    For the first time ever, this Cisco showed up on my husband's computer when he went to he  home yahoo page on Safari. We didn't know what to do to get rid of this sign in page. Finally I shut down his computer and when it started up all was fine until tonight and suddenly this cisco signin page showed up again. We shut his computer case and when I opened it all was okay. Now I find this discussion and  tried to follow the advice, but we have a different set up.

    We are not using airport, but our wifi goes thru the apple Time Capsule and in system prefs/network there is nothing that says airport. if I look at the info in airport utility under wireless clients there is nothing that indicates cisco. So I did uncheck where it says ask to join new networks and maybe that will put an end to this.

    I see that the latest posts here is over a year ago and yet this never happened to us till now.