Airport Being Turned Off

I am using a MacBook Pro running OSX 10.5.3. Every time I restart my MacBook, it turns off Airport. This is extremely annoying because I have it set to automatically mount network servers at login, but this will fail unless I an very quick and turn Airport back on before it tries to connect to the server. I don't know why Airport keeps getting turned off, but does anyone know what I can do to stop this from happening?

adam ramage wrote:
we have been having a lot of problems with students turning off the airport and playing games to evade us from watching them. Is there any way to prevent students from changing the status of the airport ( on /off )?
Would managed accounts be too drastic a solution? Perhaps you could switch the accounts of offending students to such a status.

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You are posting in the MacBook Pro (Original) forum. Your mid 2009 MBP qualifies you to post in the MacBook Pro (Late 2008 and 2009) forum area here:
http://discussions.apple.com/category.jspa?categoryID=251

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Hi,
AirPort is turned off on reboot.
I don't have any setting for that.
Does anyone know how to fix this?
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bwittbold, welcome to the discussions!
From your description, this sounds like an internal power supply problem on your AX, but it couldn't hurt to try a hard reset on the unit as a last resort. If this is successful, you will need to reconfigure the device.
Pull the power plug from your unit. Hold in the small reset button with an unfolded paperclip or something similar and continue to hold it in for at least 10 seconds while you plug the power cable back into the AX.
If this does not help, it is time to call Apple support for repair or replacement.

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Sorry, this is probably kind of a stupid question....but can you use remote desktop to monitor computers who's airport is turned off?

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This is the Mac Pro desktop forum. I requested your post be moved to the MacBook Pro laptop forum.

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Hello. im the techie at a school and we have been having a lot of problems with students turning off the airport and playing games to evade us from watching them. Is there any way to prevent students from changing the status of the airport ( on /off )?
We run all the users from an OD so if it could be run from the server it would be great. but otherwise it would be just as good if its run from the client.
any ideas?

adam ramage wrote:
we have been having a lot of problems with students turning off the airport and playing games to evade us from watching them. Is there any way to prevent students from changing the status of the airport ( on /off )?
Would managed accounts be too drastic a solution? Perhaps you could switch the accounts of offending students to such a status.

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HighGeek585 wrote:
Ok, There is only one way to solve this problem, Delete the app that you download and then restart your phone (make sure you saved your data in iCloud).
And if that don't work maybe can help you more.
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Again if you want to help do so here. Drawing posters to email conversations is against the TOS of this forum.
Anyway:
Currently there is no way to remotely hack an iPhone. If it was doing strange things it may have been a glitch or bug in the iPhone.
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Hy, I have a problem from a week with my airport espress.
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Hi Bob,
thanks for your answare... I said thai I'm very luky for this
I'll bay anotherone.
have a good day...
bye
Matteo

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Good morning.
My new MBP is working great and I love it. The only thing that I having some problems with is getting it to remember my network connection when it is turned off and back on.
Here's what I have set up. I have a wireless network in my home with WEP encryption and my SSID is not transmitted.
If I go up to the network (antenna) symbol at the top of the screen, click on it and choose other network, enter my SSID and the WEP password, it connects and stays connected.
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The password for the wireless router is out of sync (corrupted). To remedy the situation you can delete the offending keychain item from the system keychain. You can't view the passwords for items within the system keychain, but you can delete an item so it can be recreated.
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Hello Milton hoskins. Welcome to the Apple Discussions!
When I check the About This MAC list of components and click the AirPort Card the info says it's turned off. Is this the problem? If so hoe do I turn it on?
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