wifi stuck and forces me to restart
Up until now, I've had no problems with my Wifi. I'm running Macbook Pro 10.6.7 Snow Leopard, but before I was running Lion which is where the problm started occuring. I reformated my macbook pro and tried testing it on Snow Leopard, but the problem still occurs.
I would turn on my computer and my wifi would be working for a bit, when it disconnects ( i know it disconnected because my webpages/videos don't load or stream or whatever anymore), it'll still show that it has bars, but when i click open network settings and it shows that my wifi is off so i click wifi on, but it doesn't turn on, which then removes the bars from my taskbar and shows that my wifi is off, i click wifi on again, but it still doesn't turn on. I then restart my computer, and wifi works perfectly fine again for awhile and this happens again.
On some days, it happens more frequent than others, but this is really annoying if I have to stay plugged into ethernet to use the internet. Does anyone have a solution?
I've tried tactics such as opening terminal and using commands like networksetup airportpower en1 on/off, and sometimes that works in turning my wifi back on and off, but then it doesn't scan any networks to connect to, so i'm not sure what to do anymore besides take it into genius bar, but i want to make that as my last, last, resort.
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.7)