Q: Maps on Yosemite doesn't show location when on home wifi
For about a week now, maps on my MBA does nothing when I click the arrow button next to the search box when I am on my home wifi. Of course, what used to happen was the map would be oriented to the current location of the mac. Maps on my wife's MBA works as designed. Furthermore, the iCloud cannot locate my MBA. iCloud reports my MBA as "Online, No Location Available". My MBA was connected to a different wifi network yesterday and Maps was able to locate my position without issue as was iCloud.
This leads me to the conclusion that something is amiss on the MBA itself.
The issue started when I deleted then re-created my home wifi profile on my MBA in an attempt to resolve an issue where my MBA was reporting its location as my old home address 100 miles away. I relocated a month ago and brought my 3TB Time Capsule with me. I re-created the wifi profile on my MBA, renamed my SSID, and reported the new location to SkyHook as per some instructions I found somewhere on this forum. Thankfully, I can rest easy knowing that I should be able to locate my MBA if it were ever lost or stolen (providing the culprit isn't a neighbor), but I'd still like to have it function as designed.
I welcome any advice or suggestions.
Model Name: MacBook Air
Model Type: 13-inch, Mid 2011
Model Identifier: MacBookAir4,2
Processor Name: Intel Core i5 CPU 2557M
Processor Model: Sandy Bridge
Processor Speed: 1.7 GHz
Number of Processors: 1
Total Number of Cores: 2
Memory Size: 4 GB 1333 MHz DDR3
Graphics Model: Intel HD Graphics 3000 384 MB
Assembled in: China
Manufactured during: February 2012
L1 Cache: 64 KB
L2 Cache: 256 KB (per Core)
L3 Cache: 3 MB
Processor Bitrate: 64 bit
EFI Bitrate: 64 bit
Kernel Bitrate: 64 bit
Direct Media Interface: 2.5 GT/s
Boot ROM Version: MBA41.0077.B12
System SMC Version: 1.73f66
Minimum Supported Operating System: Mac OS X 10.7 Build 11A2063 (Lion)
Current Boot Operating System: OS X 10.10.4 Build 14E46 (Yosemite)
Maximum Supported Operating System: Latest version of OS X 10.10 (Yosemite)
MacBook Air, OS X Yosemite (10.10.4)
Posted on Jul 9, 2015 6:01 PM