Ralph Verdult
Level 1 (0 points)

Q: Mountain Lion sees Wifi as Enterprise

Hi there,

 

At work we recently got a new internet setup with three different wifi's. They're all normal wifi-connections with a WPA2 Personal password. They all work perfectly fine on my iPhone and on the Yosemite drive on my mac. On the Mountain Lion drive though, it does not work properly. Mountain Lion sees all three networks as an Enterprise network, which also request a user name. I contacted the network company, they doublechecked and assured me that it is absolutely set to WPA2Personal. Seeing it works on all my other decives, and on those of my colleagues, I think it's something in my OS, but I cannot find what.

 

Hope anybody has an answer.

MacBook Pro, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.5)

Posted on Jan 26, 2016 7:00 AM

Close
Ralph Verdult

Q: Mountain Lion sees Wifi as Enterprise

  • All replies
  • Helpful answers

  • by MrHoffman,

    MrHoffman MrHoffman Jan 26, 2016 7:27 AM in response to Ralph Verdult
    Level 6 (15,612 points)
    Mac OS X
    Jan 26, 2016 7:27 AM in response to Ralph Verdult

    Which specific Wi-Fi devices?

     

    Launch Console.app and see if there are any Wi-Fi-related errors getting logged there.

     

    If there's nothing obvious, then remove and re-add the Wi-Fi network connection and see if that clears this.

     

    If that fails, get one and preferably more backups of all your entire data, entirely current copies, and these backups on the off chance that the following might cause problems for your existing data.   (I don't expect that here, but your data is the most important thing here.)   Then load a newer version of OS X onto an external scratch disk on the problematic Mac, boot from that, and see if you can connect.   While OS X 10.8 is getting old, it should still connect — it's possible that something in your current 10.8 configuration might be causing a problem.