wifi: no hardware found after 10.7.4 update

Can you paste your kernel.log here after a reboot ? It can point to some reason as to why this occured. Did it work well on 10.7.3 ?

Make a backup of your system and make a fresh installation of 10.7.4.

Likewise, I can't really post my whole kernel.log but at boot time I do see it refuse to load some kexts versioned 11.4 because an 11.3 module is already loaded.

Being that Mach 11 came out with Lion I'm assuming that 11.4 would be the 10.7.4 version of the module and 11.3 would be the 10.7.3 ?

Ideas for how to defer or stop the first load of the 11.3 module? Or i'm barking up the wrong tree?

Does your WIFI works when you start from the Recovery HD ?
If yes then I would recommend you that you reinstall Mac OS X.

If you doesn't like to do it. You can also try a fresh installation on an external hard disk or 2nd partition and test there.

How do I boot from the second HD?

I already created a second encrypted volume because I need my code on a case sensitive FS so I'm backing up to there.

Just checking I still have the keys to all encrytped volumes..

When you created a 2nd parition, then start from Recovery HD. There click on "reinstall Mac OS X", there you can choose where you want to install the Mac OS X. In this case on the 2nd partition.

FunkyDrug wrote:

I REFUSE TO RE-INSTALL OPERATING SYSTEM, this is silly to have to re-install OSX Lion for issues like this, there is got to be another way out.

I have taken a genius bar appointment today and see what can they do for me.

Good Luck at the Bar, Maybe you should book an appointment with a Bar that servese Alcohol for after the G bar visit.

Mac's, They Just Work, NOT.

I gave you just a solution. The Genius cannot do deeper things. But I doesn't want to change your mind.

I had the same problem, I changed my hosts file to original one and it fixed the problem

The same thing happened to me after 10.7.4 update. That's really disappointing: what did I do wrong? I just updated my OS. Recovery HD has wifi though. Restoring /etc/hosts file didn't help.

Same symptoms of non-working WiFi on my used-to-be-working-just-fine-with-10.7.3 2008 Aluminum Mac, with FileVault on.

I restarted under guest, WiFi was working.

I shut down the Mac, booting back up as myself... and WiFi was back.

The hick-up seems to be happening around

May 10 20:59:29 XXXXXXX-MacBook kernel[0]: Vendor ID 0xffff is not validVendor ID 0xffff is not validVendor ID 0xffff is not validVendor ID 0xffff is not validVendor ID 0xffff is not validVendor ID 0xffff is not validVendor ID 0xffff is not validVendor ID 0xffff is not validVendor ID 0xffff is not validVendor ID 0xffff is not validVendor ID 0xffff is not validVendor ID 0xffff is not validVendor ID 0xffff is not validVendor ID 0xffff is not valid 0 [Time 1336676369] [Message

May 10 20:59:29 XXXXXXX-MacBook kernel[0]: Vendor ID 0xffff is not valid

May 10 20:59:39 XXXXXXX-MacBook kernel[0]: Vendor ID 0xffff is not validVendor ID 0xffff is not validVendor ID 0xffff is not validVendor ID 0xffff is not validVendor ID 0xffff is not validVendor ID 0xffff is not validVendor ID 0xffff is not validVendor ID 0xffff is not validVendor ID 0xffff is not validVendor ID 0xffff is not validVendor ID 0xffff is not validVendor ID 0xffff is not validVendor ID 0xffff is not validVendor ID 0xffff is not validVendor ID 0xffff is not validVendor ID 0xffff is not validVendor ID 0xffff is not validVendor ID 0xffff is not validVendor ID 0xffff is not validhibernate_page_list_setall start 0xffffff8064ba7000, 0xffffff8064bc6000

May 10 21:04:33 XXXXXXX-MacBook kernel[0]: HID tickle 71 ms

May 10 21:04:33 XXXXXXX-MacBook kernel[0]: Previous Sleep Cause: 5

May 10 21:04:33 XXXXXXX-MacBook kernel[0]: WLAN adapter PCIE config space was not restored (stateNumber = 0)

May 10 21:04:33 XXXXXXX-MacBook kernel[0]: WLAN adapter PCIE config space was not restored (stateNumber = 2)

May 10 21:04:33 XXXXXXX-MacBook kernel[0]: wl_recover_nocard: Timer already started

May 10 21:04:33 XXXXXXX-MacBook kernel[0]: 00000000 00000020 NVEthernet::setLinkStatus - not Active

I just solved my problem by disabling FileVault (it was enabled when I updated and the problem appeared). After disabling it, I restart my Mac and WiFi was working again. I didn't need to reinstall Mac OS.

I'm reinstalling now.

When I configured OSX I sanely put my music and code on seperate paritions to the core OS so if something like this happened I woulkdn't lose anything.

OSX claims that it "Can't boot from" the old parititon even after formatting it, and the disk utility in the installer is crippled and won't let me alter the partitions.

I've had to hose the entire disk and start over. Pretty spectacularly unhappy about this.