Q: Wifi freezes Mountain Lion (especially with Safari it seems)

I've never used the Transmit menu item ever. I have te same problem. If I leave Transmit running (no menu item). Let the machine sleep with Transmit running, come back later wake it up, same problem, beach ball force restart.

Its 100 % related to Transmit but not just the menu item.

I had to make sure I quit Transmit after using it.

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I also quit out of Transmit menu and have not had the problem since then (5 days now).

Sounds like a different symptom as you have the exclaimation mark appearing. This was never something that appeared in the problems I had. It would only just have moving bars. So maybe not transmit for you?

     From what Apple told me and I've verified it with them on my Macbook.  Apple told me that this wifi problem is causing the programs that connect to the internet to lock/freeze.  The program issues are a side affect of the wifi issue.  I've never had Transmit on any of my Computers.  For the 4 days It worked ok after my router full manual reset every thing worked fine.

I've tried 4 different browsers with nothing else running and no addons.  When it drops wifi they lockup and won't force quit either. 

  Any changes I made or programs I deleted fix it a little while and then comes back and affects something else.  I know on these forums I've been told it must be a different problem than Tranmit for me.  Well  agian I agree with Apple program lock ups are a side affect of the wifi issue with some programs being affect more than others. 

My wifi drops with nothing connected while using just my Open Office.  My lockups happen just as often without going to sleep.  Again verified with Apple on the phone.

Just don't think Apple isn't taking this seriously because they are at all levels.  They called me and others, running test and trying a lot of the fixes others had tried.  They stayed on the phone waiting patiently waiting for a dropped wifi and what has locked up.  They told me they do read these post and I know that's true because that's how they found me.

I have precisely the same issue as most of you. I shall test the proposed solution (Transmit) and will keep you posted!

I totally have that problem too, and Im like ***

I had this problem as well. Disabling the Transmit menu item appears to have fixed it.

I also updated to the latest version of VMWare Fusion, and changed its preferences so that it doesn't show a menu item either (I never used that menu item anyways)... though I'm not sure if that had anything to do with the problem.

Worked for me! Transmit was the issue!! Thanks so much for this thread!

Disabling Transmit did it for me two.

No wifi crashes for the past three days, before disabling Transmit wifi crashed on a daily basis.

Interesting stuff. I dont use Transmit myself but had a perfectly functioning MBP before I upgraded to 10.8 and since then I had 2/3 freezes where a hard reboot was all I could do. For some reason I thought it was Free Memory Pro and so I disabled it and hence disabled the menu too obviously. Since then I have had no crashes. However from reading these posts it looks to be more of a "menu item" issue.

Take note Apple - bad update..

I am noticing that iPhoto and photostream keep freezing up and it didnt do this with OS X Lion

Same for me... no wake-up problems since disabling the Transmit menu.

So for me, enabling/disabling the Transmit menu did not solve my problem (and I was having the problem when the menu was disabled anyway). But still it somehow seems to be tied to Transmit as I only experience this problem when Transmit is running when I put my computer to sleep.

I've been running info the exact same issue as everyone else -- computer wakes from sleep, wifi is connecting, and notification area freezes. I have transmit installed, but I don't have the menubar active. Running ML on a 27inch imac.

However, in my case I was able to unfreeze the box without restarting:

     1. Open activity monitor

     2. Select "My Processes" next to the filter bar, and change it to "All Processes"

     3. Force kill 'configd'.

Next time this happens to someone, can they do a few 'Sample Process' runs on configd before killing it?