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Q: 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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  • by Stephen Stark,

    Stephen Stark Stephen Stark Aug 3, 2012 7:03 AM in response to Gary Chelak
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    Aug 3, 2012 7:03 AM in response to Gary Chelak

    Unchecking the menu bar preference in Transmit seems to have done the trick for me. I have been running 4.1.9, so that isn't all that recent.

  • by primalman,

    primalman primalman Aug 3, 2012 7:15 AM in response to zippytunes
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    Aug 3, 2012 7:15 AM in response to zippytunes

    zippytunes wrote:

     

    Within moments of my reply to the post, amazingly I recevied this update notice:

     

    Transmit 4.1.9 fixes an issue with the Transmit Disk menu, another issue with Keychain Access troubles under Mac OS X 10.6, and updates Growl yet again.

     

    Well, I have been running 4.1.9 for a while. Still had the freezes. I will try to install Transmit on my test intall and see what happens.

  • by Gary Chelak,

    Gary Chelak Gary Chelak Aug 3, 2012 7:30 AM in response to primalman
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    Aug 3, 2012 7:30 AM in response to primalman

    I was running 4.1.9. Filed a bug report w/ Panic.

  • by scottorchard,

    scottorchard scottorchard Aug 3, 2012 9:30 AM in response to ilovecode
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    Aug 3, 2012 9:30 AM in response to ilovecode

    We've got another thread where we've come to pretty much the same conclusion, disabling Transmit Disk seems to allevate the problem: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4148731

  • by FishNYC22,

    FishNYC22 FishNYC22 Aug 3, 2012 9:33 AM in response to scottorchard
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    Aug 3, 2012 9:33 AM in response to scottorchard

    I don't have Transmit Disk installed but I do use transmit. So thats rather odd.

  • by appels en peren,

    appels en peren appels en peren Aug 3, 2012 12:35 PM in response to ilovecode
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    Aug 3, 2012 12:35 PM in response to ilovecode

    I also had a similar issue with wifi afer awaking. Mbp 17" 2009.

    I tried all the regular things. Resettin PRAM and SMC etc. All with no succes.

    At the end I found this thread which pointed me to the solution that seems to work for now.

     

    https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4149260?start=0&tstart=0

     

    Give it a try. Good luck

  • by gsspike,

    gsspike gsspike Aug 3, 2012 6:22 PM in response to appels en peren
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    Aug 3, 2012 6:22 PM in response to appels en peren

    Well let us know tomorrow if it's still working.

  • by Sam Seprish,

    Sam Seprish Sam Seprish Aug 3, 2012 7:18 PM in response to ilovecode
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    Aug 3, 2012 7:18 PM in response to ilovecode

    Has anyone solved this issue yet? I did a clean install on MBP 13" and it will randomly freeze after waking from sleep. How could apple have missed this huge bug?

  • by Michael M.,

    Michael M. Michael M. Aug 3, 2012 7:23 PM in response to ilovecode
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    Aug 3, 2012 7:23 PM in response to ilovecode

    Well, after all the testing, it ended up being the Panic Transmit menu bar icon for me as well. For that matter, Transmit is making my machine hang when I use it.

     

    I have tweeted them about this... Please do the same so we can help them continue to improve their awesome product! @panic

  • by musenut,

    musenut musenut Aug 3, 2012 7:24 PM in response to ilovecode
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    Aug 3, 2012 7:24 PM in response to ilovecode

    I have not solved my problem yet - I no longer have any startup items running. I was using transmit but that is now disabled. My problem went from beach balling in which I had to restart to not remembering my preferred network. That started after I deleted all my networks and recreated one. So I have to tell it each time on waking what network to join. Hope apple fixes this soon. I never should have upgraded!

  • by FishNYC22,

    FishNYC22 FishNYC22 Aug 3, 2012 7:35 PM in response to ilovecode
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    Aug 3, 2012 7:35 PM in response to ilovecode

    I've been in touch with Pacic about this and they are looking into things I believe.

     

    They suggested I try the following:

    - back up my favorites FAVORITES > EXPORT

    - Quit Transmit

    - back up ~/Library/Preferences/com.panic.Transmit.plist file

    - trash the plist file and restart transmit (you'll need to reenter your license key)

    - see if that solves the problem. If so try to double click the favorites backup file to reimport favorites (thats the only way to reimport it, you cant use Favorites>Export. See if the problem occurs again.

     

    I skiped the last step after restarting Transmit and reimported my favorites immediately. I had the issue again right away. I'll try not importing favorites and see if that does anything.

     

    Worth mentioning that I do NOT have the Transmit Menu Bar Icon up top. Maybe I'll add it and then remove it. This *****.

  • by primalman,

    primalman primalman Aug 3, 2012 7:35 PM in response to FishNYC22
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    Aug 3, 2012 7:35 PM in response to FishNYC22

    Nice to see Panic jumping on this. We should get Gruber on this too. Panic seems to be tight with him and I would guess he uses Transmit, and he has been beta teting ML since February. FWIW, I went back to Lion until there is a more definative and clear cause and solution. I am in the middle of the month's magazine production and I just don't have the time to mess with this now. I do feel that we have narrowed this down quite a bit though, and it looks like mostly a menu bar issue, and Transmit might be the a root cause, even if the menu bar is not being used by it. Fingers crossed.

  • by appels en peren,

    appels en peren appels en peren Aug 3, 2012 10:49 PM in response to ilovecode
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    Aug 3, 2012 10:49 PM in response to ilovecode

    Mij earlier post was a bit short. But the issues I had seem to be gone and my mac is awaking smootly now.

    By me it wasn't caused by anything I had installed or with my network settings/keychain.

     

    Somehow during the upgrade something went wrong with the powermanagement settings (plist). After the upgrade I noticed that the battery icon in the menybar was gone. When my Mac woke up and wouldn't connect and gave me the "beachball" the clock was still pointing at the time my mac went to deep sleep.

     

    Resetting al my powermanagement settings to the default by using the button in the Energy Saver prefpane was all it took for me. Since then all my issues are gone.

     

    Hope this helps.

  • by Cabel,

    Cabel Cabel Aug 3, 2012 10:56 PM in response to ilovecode
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    Aug 3, 2012 10:56 PM in response to ilovecode

    Hey Guys,

     

    Cabel from Panic here! I've seen a similar hang on my MacBook Air happen two times, but, obviously, it's very hard to debug and dig in when your computer is frozen. (Also, it rarely happens for me!)

     

    Since we haven't touched anything related to the Transmit Disk Menu in a long time, and this only started with 10.8, I can only assume this is a bug in 10.8, but I'd love to get as much information as possible so Apple can fix it (or we can work around it).

     

    One quick question:

     

    I only saw it when my computer was sleeping and plugged in. Can anyone confirm this anecdotally? Or have people seen this happen when not plugged in?

     

    And if any of you guys can get this often and easily every time you sleep, please e-mail me, cabel at panic. Thanks!

     

    Super weird,

    Cabel

    Panic

  • by Cabel,

    Cabel Cabel Aug 3, 2012 11:05 PM in response to Cabel
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    Aug 3, 2012 11:05 PM in response to Cabel

    Oh, and one last thing!

     

    If you can reproduce this easily, and you use the Transmit Disk Menu…

     

    And you can somehow get to a working Terminal during the hang…

     

    Please type:

     

    sample TransmitMenu

     

    Into your Terminal and e-mail me the results. I will be extemely grateful.

     

    Best,

    Cabel

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