10.7.4 Issues with sharing Internet Connection

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Athirn Eleidan wrote:

if someone can tell how a kext file can be unloaded manually without error messages, it would be great experience for me.

Sorry, I keep getting the same results as you after trying several things, including turning AirPort Off. About the only other thing I can think of is to boot into Safe Mode and see if that works, but I'm not in the mood to try it tonight.

it takes a little while to type stuff like that out so that it's clear to others...but worth it i hope!

please let me know if simply removing the WEP security (password for the Wi-Fi connection) works for you. hearing that another machine gave exactly the same result would confirm that the issue is indeed connected to this.

thanks!

I cannot confirm that myself as I have circumvented the issue using an airport express base station instead. I hope others can confirm for you.

No, Kext Utility has done all the work for me as oooo had described it above, and now everything seems to work fine, even with 128-bit WEP turned on.

The no password method worked for about 3 minutes and then the sharing connection broke down again, so i dont think that is the fix, as you have said.

I confirm — that's the way it is. So the kext file replacement seems the only solution for now.

i sadly confirm, the "no password method" doesn't work.

(it's funny the method got a name, especially since it's not even a method that works)

sorry for jumping the gun on this...I guess I just got lucky with the initial reaction I got from this change - about 15 minutes of steady internet connection.

apologies!

Thanks for running and documenting these scenarios. Initlally, turning wi-fi WEP security to a lesser strength (ie., 40bit) worked, but only for a few minutes. Then I turned it off, but like umma08, it only worked for a few minutes as well. Now nothing works. I'm curious, are the other sharing functions working for folks (.g., screen sharing, file sharing) or is it just Internet sharing? None of the three I mentioned are working for me.

I am on the phone with Apple Care. I am trying to get them to understand that the 10.7.4 update broke our routers. I am getting as self-assigned ip.

Just got off the phone with the Senior Advisor in the networking/wifi tech services, who apparently has heard from several people already about this issue. He escalated the issue to the engineers earlier today and will add my name to the ticket and said he should have an answer by Wednesday about this. (I hope they have a fix for this by Wednesday.) I also told him that there is a 7 page thread about this on the Apple Support Forums, i.e., this very thread.

Bottom line, at this point is: they know there is a problem, they know pretty much that the 10.7.4 update is the issue, and I am sure they will address it.

I experienced this 10.73 and 10.74 update and both caused the wireless internet connection lost

on my iBookAir 2011. Tried zillion ways to solve the issue, but got tired of it.

Finally, I decided to downgarde to OX10.72 which is fine.

It's been quite a long time, since this problem hopped up which in Febuary, but apple seems

not wanted to fix the issue right away..

Now,, I decided to wait until apple decided to fix this strange problem.

However, interesting point,,, other iMac 24in 2008 is also in the wirelsss problem.. now I am using

with the Ethernet cable connecting router. The system responce gets slower compaire to

the older OS...

Other models running 10.74 are the the iBook 2008 and also iBookPro 2010.

Interesting enough... these are FINE and didn't cause any wirless problem updating 10.74

Any idea? Why the new iBook Air gets problem updating to 10.73 or 10.74...?

I know i have said this before but after a few days of testing i can say that the swapping of the KEXT files worked for me and is still working perfectly fine. its a good fix for anyone that needs wifi sharing urgently!

Apple engineers are clearly experiencing the same problems we are (including at home), and are likely working on the fix which takes time to qualify before release. The phone support folks work from scripts and are often the last to know, and can't say much without authorization and script approval, though we hear of exceptions. But it's hard to be patient!