Mountain Lion no Wifi after wake from sleep

Hey guys,


I have the following problem:


after I wake my 17" MacBook Pro 8,3 (early 2011) from sleep by opening the lid, it starts searching for a WiFi network to join. It will just keep searching and searching, without ever finding anything. When I try to click on the WiFi icon in the menubar I get the beachball, also the System Preferences are affected by this crash - I can't go to "Network", it also beachballs. The only way out is a restart.


To prevent this from happening I can disable WiFi before putting my mac to sleep, but that's quite inconvenient. I have disabled all Auto Proxies, tried to delete the known networks from both the Network pane and the Keychain.


😟

MacBook Pro (17-inch Early 2011), OS X Mountain Lion

Posted on Jul 27, 2012 11:06 PM

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Aug 8, 2012 11:57 AM in response to FishNYC22

Just when you thought it was safe to put your computer to sleep with apps open....


well... I closed my MBP for about 30 min and forgot to close out my apps that were open and woke to it being hung up again. I had a bunch open: Safari, Firefox, Transmit, Dreamweaver, iCal, Mail. I hadn't had a crash in 2 days of sleeping without having apps open. So one of them is not playing nice with the system.


Quit your apps, Sleep well, Wake refreshed 🙂

Aug 8, 2012 2:22 PM in response to FishNYC22

I have found Transmit definitively related in my case.

I had this exact issue after upgrading to Mountain Lion. Wi-Fi would hang / lockup on wake from sleep state.

The icon would animate on the menu bar, then would hang and display the pinwheel on mouse over.

I formatted and clean installed Mountain Lion without resolve.


I then removed the Transmit Login Item from [System Preferences > Users & Groups > Login Items]

and I have experience no more issue. This was a 5+ times per day requiring restart.

The moment the screen went black it was the pinwheel of doom for Wi-Fi and a few other processes.


At least for me. This is finally "Fixed"


Hope this helps someone.


EDIT: Apparently this can also be done by a checkbox I overlooked...

Transmit > Preferences > General > [ ] Show Transmit Disk in menu bar.

Aug 9, 2012 1:56 AM in response to anondrao

I think for me it is almost definitively down to Transmit as well. However, I had removed the menubar icon as stated in a previous post and I still experienced the freezing of my MBP. So what I've been doing now is I make sure I quit Transmit whenever I am not using it and I haven't had the problem anymore.


But like Cabel said before it's seems to be any app that uses Bonjour, so I also made sure to disable Homesharing in iTunes, just in case.


Edit:

I am pretty sure ML AirPlay uses Bonjour as well, which makes me wonder if that could also be the culprit for some of you that are having this annoying problem.

Aug 10, 2012 6:34 AM in response to RogNeal

apparently, there are tow types of wifi disconecting problem. The one which is refered in this topic is disconect after wake up. This can probably be solved by Trnsmit menu configuration.


However, the other one has nothing to do with the programs installed. And it is disconnecting all the time, not just after the wake up.


Fix from Apple is desperatelly needed!

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