Q: mac osx 10.9 Mavericks wifi issue

With last night SMC update, the wifi issue sims to be fixed on my MacBook Air 2013. I hope it could continue working well like now in the future too.

Absolutly nothing works to fix this problem... I have tried everything. The only solution is to have bluetooth turned off, which IS NOT any kind of fix.

Just kidding - it's back to not working again. 

13-inch, Mid 2011, Macbook Air here.

Since I've installed Mavericks, when waking up, wifi doesn't connect automatically.

Tryed everyting on this thread, nothing works, except turning bluetooth off.. which I need on..

Yosemite has been announced, and unfortunately they seem be more worried about adding pointless transparencies everywhere.

Dongle dongle dongle? Everybody is still complaining and suffering. A wirelss dongle adapter at least puts gas in the tank. Meantime everybody is waiting on a fix that is looking ever increasingly like it might not happen.

A wifi dongle is a ridiculous workaround, unless you can't set up SleepWatcher + blueutil as described in a previous post, which is the most sensible option so far.

$15 is ridiculous work around? Why? You just said you have tried everything on this thread and nothing works except turing off blue tooth which is unaccpetable. So you haven't set up SleepWathcer+bluetil?

I read your post which said nothing works and now you are saying there is a workaround.

A good dongle is worth its weight in gold if it means a funtioning Mavs vs a non functioning Mavs.

I am not sure if  you have or have not done the workaround becuase iIread your post as saying "nothing works". I do not want a flame war but you said nothing works and I took your word for it. So I am confused and help me here; really I am not being sarcastic. But these dongles work with the WIFI on or OFF.

A dongle is like using a can of "slime tire repair". It plugs the leak in the tire and gets you back on the road.

Hey Harvey 137,

No question that the workaround you suggest (the dongle) is a good one. However, you should not feel flustered that people continue to complain here of the issue, or those who report in after incremental updates of the OS to give update of their problem's status, like I have.

Happy Thursday!

Believe me I am not flustered that people continue to complain about the issue. No one who pays top dollar should have to go through this. All I am saying is keep bitc$ing at Apple and lookng for solutions. But if I have a stranded computer and a simple dongle will allow me to use it then put the bandaid on the wound. That part I do not understand. Keep after Apple and keep sharing information. But man I have the best tires money can by on my Sonata but I also carry a small portable air pump and slime tire repair so as to not be stranded in a late night storm waiting on a tow truck because my bad shoulder will not let me change my spare which has gone flat from disuse!

Get my drift?

If everybody were to use "slime repair" what incentive is that for Apple to fix the problem? Plus the garages around here won't touch/fix a tire that has "slime repair" in it. Apple is more likely to respond to a billion "stranded" people.

Since the public release of 10.9.3, my fix of loading Edimax drivers doesn't work as well any more. Am waiting on 10.9.4 or hoping/praying that OS 10.10 will have the fix. But not holding my breath.

"If everybody were to use "slime repair" what incentive is that for Apple to fix the problem?"

Simple you do not tell them you are using a dongle. As a consumer you keep hammering away at them and not let up. That is the only way they will fix this problem. Meantime stop the bleeding with a bandaid.

You say "Plus the garages around here won't touch/fix a tire that has "slime repair" in it".

SO WHAT! You miss the analogy with a literalist no garages fix slime tires. How about you just put a bandaid on your Mac in the form of a dongle that maybe is not the perfect solution but still works better than your wifi crashing.

As for Edimax I have found their tech support 2nd to none. I have no connection to this company.

I suggest calling them if you claim their dongles are not working as well with 10.9.3

Harvey 137 wrote:

 

$15 is ridiculous work around? Why? You just said you have tried everything on this thread and nothing works except turing off blue tooth which is unaccpetable. So you haven't set up SleepWathcer+bluetil?

I read your post which said nothing works and now you are saying there is a workaround.

A good dongle is worth its weight in gold if it means a funtioning Mavs vs a non functioning Mavs.

I am not sure if  you have or have not done the workaround becuase iIread your post as saying "nothing works". I do not want a flame war but you said nothing works and I took your word for it. So I am confused and help me here; really I am not being sarcastic. But these dongles work with the WIFI on or OFF.

A dongle is like using a can of "slime tire repair". It plugs the leak in the tire and gets you back on the road.

No solution described so far fixes the problem.

Both the dongle and the script are workarounds, not fixes.

Let me explain why using a wifi dongle to "fix" this problem seems ridiculous to me:

Compared to the incoveniency of carrying around and attaching a wifi dongle, and dealing with 3rth party drivers and software, this problem seems like nothing.

You could more easily just move your mouse to the menubar and select manually the wifi network to connect to on each wakeup/startup.

Also, everything TheGuyintheProjectionBooth  said before.

Let me explain why using a wifi dongle to "fix" this problem seems ridiculous to me:

Compared to the incoveniency of carrying around and attaching a wifi dongle, and dealing with 3rth party drivers and software, this problem seems like nothing.

You could more easily just move your mouse to the menubar and select manually the wifi network to connect to on each wakeup/startup.

I would agree with you IF  the  only problem was on wake up and you could go the rest of the day without issues.  So you reconnect once and spend the whole day with  everything  fine. Then it is a minor issue.  How many times does it sleep. And for others no connection without shutting off bluetooth.  How many random drops during the day? Put the dongle in and never take it out.

It comes down to how much work is it to keep reconnecting vs. carrying around a USB dongle which is no different that carrying around a thumb drive. 

The dongle is not a fix. It is a bandaid waiting for the "fix" which can only come from Apple.

Harvey 137 wrote:

 

. . . As for Edimax I have found their tech support 2nd to none. I have no connection to this company.

I suggest calling them if you claim their dongles are not working as well with 10.9.3

I don't have a dongle. I went to their site to see what they had in their product line to choose one and saw the driver downloads and a light bulb went off. So I got the drivers for the 3 dongles that I might possibly get and loaded the first to see if this is a software or hardware problem (so any in either or both houses) and my WiFi worked great. I took that one off and tried the next, it worked too. The only one that was flaky from the start was the AC driver, I have an AC router. Only right since there is no AC WiFi chip in these. So back to the first drive and until the 10.9.3 Public GM, I had WiFi. Even in the 10.9.3 Public Beta it worked. It was when I installed the public GM that it started failing. I've posted this as a fix in so many places that I forgot where. And so many of the WiFi threads are so long that not everyone reads the whole that and "misses" things. May have not posted it here. Apologies.

Earlier you said "Since the public release of 10.9.3, my fix of loading Edimax drivers doesn't work as well any more".

Now you clarify that "I don't have a dongle. I went to their site to see what they had in their product line to choose one and saw the driver downloads and a light bulb went off. So I got the drivers for the 3 dongles that I might possibly get and loaded the first to see if this is a software or hardware problem (so any in either or both houses) and my WiFi worked great".

So you do not have a dongle and complain that the Edimax drivers do not work as well any more with 10.9.3?

School me on software here. How can you expect a driver from a third party source for a Wifi adapter to fix your Mavs Wifi without using their dongle and then complain that the drivers are not working?

How is this done?

How can the driver work if it cannot find the dongle to connect to? Did you alter the software so it acts and looks different than what I see in my network preferences?

I look at my airport network preferences and see when the dongle is not connected it looks like the far left. I connect the dongle and in 2 seconds it goes green and says connected. Note both with AE is connected and the dongle at the same time. So I get out of range for the Mac Wifi and my wifi drops and the dongle works and keeps a seemless connection.

That is all I am suggesting as a bandaid for people until they get a true fix.