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.


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

Posted on Jul 27, 2012 11:06 PM

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Nov 16, 2012 8:01 AM in response to Thanushka

I have a MacBook 2008 vintage and had no problems with Lion and have latest ML 18.2.x since installing and getting worse when I shutdown all was ok on login next time but shutdowns are becoming like sleep when the macbook awakens it does not see the wifi network. I must restart the computer and then I am connected. Turning off and on wifi does not work. I did notice a drop down java notice occassionally when not connected that it can't find something. Apple where are you??? Too much partying and stock bonuses - everyone is out to lunch. fix this stupid issue.

Nov 17, 2012 7:03 AM in response to jbstas

OK, I have the late 2010 MBA... have packet loss after sleep/awake.


I have a fix... I have to MANUALLY set it to sleep on the menu. Not letting it sleep by the energy setting timeout.


If I manually put it to sleep, it wakes up working.

If I walk away long enough and it kick into sleep mode. it wakes up having 50+% packet loss.


repeated this and confirmed it works for me.

Hope this help.

Nov 19, 2012 7:05 AM in response to NDKO

How do you confirm packet loss? I have a late 2010 Air also...


What I see on my end is that it appears "connected" at the icon, yet there's no connection online.


In any case, it'd be impractical for me to set the MBA to sleep manually, as I carry it around my work continually. And aside from sleep, it also appears that I have this issue when I hop between access points, even when not in sleep.


And as this happens at work, I can't ask them to upgrade the thousands of access points throughout the facility just for a problem with a BYOD MBA.

Nov 19, 2012 9:51 AM in response to NDKO

When I say packet loss... I open up the terminal app and do a PING yahoo.com.

When there is network issue, the ping will give timeout.


When there is timeout issue, I just manually put the lappy to sleep (using the menu>sleep) and wait for 5s and wake it. It will be all fine.


Very repeatable, and very time consuming to do this 20 times a day when a client or the boss is right next to me. I hope someone at Apple actually see my bug report and working on a fix.

Dec 7, 2012 3:00 PM in response to ikedlz

My bluetooth normally remains off, yet I still have this issue at work. (Home is fine, BTW).


Found this link recently:


http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-57557838-263/one-way-to-tackle-captive-netw ork-connection-errors-in-os-x/


I'm wondering if a certificate issue is causing my problems at work - though my connection is intermittent, not continuous as you'd think a certificate issue would be. However, this article is describing what I'm seeing - "full bars", no connection.

Dec 10, 2012 8:52 PM in response to satcomer

Two points:


1) not sure how another DNS server would help, especially since I'm trying to access applications on the corporate system's intranet (e.g. Citrix).


2) pinging 8.8.8.8 works, with no packet loss. Applications (even Safari) don't load consistently. And where I am in the building matters. Some areas work, some don't.


I'm thinking it's something to do with access point security somehow.


Here are some screenshots of what I'm seeing. I tried doing network diagnostics when connected like this, but was told I was not connected to the network.

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Dec 11, 2012 9:55 AM in response to satcomer

"Another thing for your situation is try to open /Applications/Utilities/Keychain Access and delete the certification cetificate for the iwrlesss. Then rejoin the wirreless network and add it back to your Keychain, fresh. This also might help."


Nope, did that. The system asked for the certificates again (and I clicked "Always Allow" for them). Still get "full-bar dead zones". Somehow, this was never a problem with my Air under Snow Leopard.


Of course, the big reason I upgraded in the first place was to get whole-disk coverage for FileVault, rather than getting a third-party app... now I might wind up switching to a facility-supported Win7 setup instead.

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