10.5.6 Breaks WiFi and How To Fix It
Just FYI out there.
10.5.6 messed up my WiFi for the third time this year and I fix it again by replacing the IO80211Family.kext file in //System/Library/Extensions/ folder with a version from 10.5.2
I don't know what exactly happens, but since I normally sit far away from my WiFi router, my connection gets unusable after the upgrades to 10.5.4, 10.5.5 and now 10.5.6. It works fine if I'm closer to the router but somehow having a weaker signal makes it very unreliable. I have never experienced that behavior with a PC system at the same spot in the house and as I said above, it gets totally fixed by replacing the file above.
APPLE, ISN'T IT TIME TO ADDRESS AND FIX THIS ISSUE. MAYBE YOU NEED TO INCLUDE DETAILED HACKING INSTRUCTIONS TO THE NEXT UPDATE SO PEOPLE CAN FIX THE MESS IT CREATES.
William Kucharski wrote:
kpopov wrote:
10.5.6 messed up my WiFi for the third time this year and I fix it again by replacing the IO80211Family.kext file in //System/Library/Extensions/ folder with a version from 10.5.2
I'm glad this works for you, despite the security holes and changes in operation you introduce into your system by doing this.
There are also a significant number of people who report 10.5.6 fixed their Wi-Fi issues.
*So I appreciate you've had problems, but Apple hasn't "fixed this issue" because as far as they can tell, yours isn't a general case bug.*
Have you opened an AppleCare case for your issue or opened a bug via the Apple Bug Reporter?
By the way, despite what others say, my MacBook Pro was migrated from a PowerPC iBook and I've had no Wi-Fi issues whatsoever, so it's not necessarily a bad move.
This is the exact same thing that's happening to me (and thousands of others) so I'm not sure how much of a "general case bug" it needs to be for Apple to get off their cans and do something about it.
I appreciate you appreciating that we have problems, but if we've tried EVERYTHING, the only thing we can do is wait on Apple to fix the mess THEY'VE made.
By the way, it's taken 20 minutes to post this due to constant connection drops. I can't file a bug report as someone else mentioned because I can't stay connected long enough for the page to load.
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