Q: OSX Yosemite Wifi issues
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Feb 28, 2015 12:33 PMby PFJ30,hexdiy wrote:
PFJ30 wrote:
And what, may I ask, was so awful about my etre check result, that no-one has dared comment on it?!
Nothing afwul Paul, just some awkwardness that needed more research. Didn't have much time for research last night. Sorry!
Johns Etrecheck needed no research whatever.
A few things:
- in general looked like a rather neat report, but with a few puzzling anomalies which need further evaluaton.
-" [failed] com.brother.LOGINserver.plist": this may be about some antiquated software that came with your printer; it being only a preference list and it not loading anyhow, I suggest you thrash it and restart. Preference lists will auto-rebuild themselves anyhow.
I TRIED TO UPGRADE BROTHER PRINTER FIRMWARE AND DRIVERS LAST WEEK BUT FAILED AND JDP SAID NOT TO WORRY... SO I DIDN'T BUT HAPPY TO DELETE THE .PLIST ITEM
BUT FOR 2ND TIME - LIKE FAMILY.KEXT SEARCH, I CAN'T FIND ANYTHING TO DELETE ....
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Feb 28, 2015 3:20 PMby PFJ30,This appears slightly off-topic but it isn't really.
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What the f*ck did I do wrong?!
I prepared my new Cruzer USB to take x.x.3 update to keep it off my internal SSD
I checked my systems prefs to make sure it would not auto install so I could direct it to install on the usb
This seemed ok so I downloaded, it restarted and installed itself on the internal SSD!! What the **** did I do wrong? I was following all the ref articles to the letter - how was I supposed to download the install app without installing it?
I have an uptodate TimeMachine backup (which I have isolated so it can’t be overwritten.)
Do i now revert to x.x.2 using TM, then launch x.x.3 from Finder and direct it to the USB? If so, how do I stop TM from updating when i plug it back in before I have reverted?
Lordy lordy some of us are born to be geeks, others ain't
Paul
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Feb 28, 2015 4:00 PMby jndupuis1,>IF YES PROCEED TO LINE 2
>Apple's instructions are a bit eluded on using createinstallmedia. The tutorial is not command line specific. When you download Yosemite the Install window pops up. Simply go up to the top left of menu bar and quit install OS X. The App will be in the Applications folder. This MacWorld Web link is very Tutorial and will give cut and paste command lines for the Terminal. I found Mac World to be very concise.
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Feb 28, 2015 7:39 PMby nhcowboy,My late 2012 Mini Mac with Airport Extreme router's wifi on the latest update of Yosemite is better than it was initially but man there are some serious issues I've come to accept will always be there. Now when I click on the wifi icon, though it shows full bars, a dialogue box says "wifi on' for five seconds, then 'searching for networks" and keeps repeating that continuously without abate. My default email is a mess now too unfortunately, keeps booting me off wanting a password and not accepting it, then does eventually. An email, even a one sentence one with no attachments can sit in my outbox creeping along for more than a minute or two before it swishes on its way. Sometimes I can switch Safari, Google Chrome, and Firefox browsers and usually one is just bad. Never are they what I pay for broadband expectations or what would be considered tolerable. My iPad Air2 screams along though. At this point I'm so confused about what to do or what to try that I officially give up, and give up hope there will ever be a fix because there won't be for me, maybe in the next System but certainly not this one. I'm self employed at home and all of my business is dependent on the internet and this problem is literally costing me more than aggravation. I've participated in all of the seed builds but I'm done. Apple use to be good, I cannot defend what they've given me now. It really is sad, I just want the basics, to go online with a relative expectation that I can, and send and receive email properly. Other than depending on my iPad to go online I abhorently cringingly dread using the Mac computer and that continuous spinning beach ball. No more anger here, it eats me up- just profound frustration at what should not be. A company worth about 700 billion with a B dollars and they killed my internet and my enjoyment of what a computer can offer. How very very sad!
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Feb 28, 2015 8:27 PMby steve626,PFJ30 wrote:
UPDATE
And this what I get in Terminal when trying to use createinstallmedia
You got the "no such file or directory" message in Terminal because the Install OS X program deletes itself from the Applications folder after it applies the OS update, hence it could not be found. You applied the update (unintentionally apparently). When the Install OS X program starts and the window opens, as someone else already has noted, you need to QUIT that program before it actually runs and updates the OS X. When you QUIT, the Install OS X program remains in your Applications directory. At that point, you can use the createinstallmedia or other procedures to install elsewhere or create a bootable external install disk.
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Feb 28, 2015 8:34 PMby steve626,nhcowboy wrote:
Now when I click on the wifi icon, though it shows full bars, a dialogue box says "wifi on' for five seconds, then 'searching for networks" and keeps repeating that continuously without abate.
Actually, that has been normal behavior for a number of versions of OS X, for a while. Every several seconds the system cycles through those messages, searching for networks, then indicating wifi on. In fact wifi is on and connected as it was all during this time, but every several seconds it updates the list of network access points and when it does, the message "searching for networks" appears.
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Feb 28, 2015 8:51 PMby steve626,PFJ30 wrote:
hexdiy wrote:
PFJ30 wrote:
And what, may I ask, was so awful about my etre check result, that no-one has dared comment on it?!
Nothing afwul Paul, just some awkwardness that needed more research. Didn't have much time for research last night. Sorry!
Johns Etrecheck needed no research whatever.
A few things:
- in general looked like a rather neat report, but with a few puzzling anomalies which need further evaluaton.
-" [failed] com.brother.LOGINserver.plist": this may be about some antiquated software that came with your printer; it being only a preference list and it not loading anyhow, I suggest you thrash it and restart. Preference lists will auto-rebuild themselves anyhow.
I TRIED TO UPGRADE BROTHER PRINTER FIRMWARE AND DRIVERS LAST WEEK BUT FAILED AND JDP SAID NOT TO WORRY... SO I DIDN'T BUT HAPPY TO DELETE THE .PLIST ITEM
BUT FOR 2ND TIME - LIKE FAMILY.KEXT SEARCH, I CAN'T FIND ANYTHING TO DELETE ....
You are having trouble finding those items because the built in Spotlight or Find for OS X does not search all locations. Try downloading and using Easyfind (or some similar program), it will find those items if they exist. Search by file/folder name, e.g. in Easyfind.
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Feb 28, 2015 8:52 PMby jndupuis1,Thank you Steve.
Paul simply Re - Download Yosemite 10.10.1 from Apple Store and copy it from your Downloads Folder to your Applications Folder. Then from there follow Mac Worlds instructions from the link I posted you. Like I said, you'll find the Mac World instructions and the Highlight, Copy and Paste Terminal Commands to be intuitive and the commands assume your OS X Yosemite is in the Applications Folder. Piece "o" cake. Cheers!
