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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Aug 4, 2012 11:26 AM in response to Stephen Stark

I am having the same problem with my 17" MBP. Restarting does not bring my WiFi back, but I have noticed when this occurs from sleep, shutting down often requries me to force the comptuer to shut down. I have tried clearing my networks too, to no avail. What DOES seem to work is to shut down, restart and run YASU to clear the caches. Then it seems to work fine again. It looks like a cache file is getting corrupted somewhere.

Aug 4, 2012 5:42 PM in response to musenut

ok - my problem now seems to be solved - I had deleted old networks in system prefs and recreated my preferred network manually. I was prompted to choose preferred each time and it was not remembered. So I deleted the network again, let it find it on its own instead of creating it manually. Now the system is remembering and connecting to my preferred network. I haven't re-installed transmit, dropbox, google drive or any login items yet. Will test this for a bit and then try those.

Aug 5, 2012 10:57 AM in response to sharpmachine

Seems that my issue has cleared up. I turned off Transmit on the menu bar and when Cabel posted, I thought I'd turn it back on to see if it happened again. It has not. So, for me, turning off and then on Transmit on the menu bar cleared up the issue.


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Aug 5, 2012 11:08 PM in response to ilovecode

!!!!!!!!!!!So far only this has worked for me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Go to System Preferences -> Energy Saver -> and UNcheck the box that says "Put hard disk(s) to sleep when possible on BOTH the Battery and Power Adaptor tabs.


I had this issue when I first installed Mountion Lion on my Aluminum MB 2008. Thought it was 10.8 so I down graded to 10.7 Lion, issue still happened. But after I applied this setting the issue seemed to go away. Before this I also deleted the old wifi settings in Network Utilities and added the Wifi device, ssid, and wep key again (not using WPA2). I will continue testing through the night and will update once I can determine the issue is gone.


Hopefully this works for others too.

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