AirPort connection hangs until clicking menu

My AirPort connection seems to randomly hang until I click the AirPort menu. I've found a video of this problem on the web, but not a fix. Anyone have any ideas for a fix? I have all of the latest updates installed.
http://smartic.us/assets/2007/7/17/osxairportweirdness.mov

If your Netgear router has been configured to disable its SSID broadcast, your first step should be to undo that and let it broadcast its SSID.
Then try setting up your Mac again with your Netgear router being the "preferred Airport network" per:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=151822

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Airport connection hanging

Hey,
I'm having a few problems with my airport connection dropping in and out, I've tried a few different wireless channels and it's the same on all, however when I change the radio mode transmission to 5Ghz (802.11n only or 802.11a compatible) it works fine. But... my flatmate can then no longer see the network on her windows laptop.
Is there anyway I can get around this? ie. is there settings on her PC that will accommodate the change of transmission?
Help! I can't play any of the stupid amount of music that is stored on my external HD and my net connection is painful.
Thanks,
Em.

Hello emmakerf. Welcome to the Apple Discussions!
Is there anyway I can get around this? ie. is there settings on her PC that will accommodate the change of transmission?
To be able to connect, your flatmate's PC will require a wireless card that support either 802.11a or 802.11n operating in the 5 GHz radio band. Some of the newest models do, but not all. I suggest getting some information about this PC from the manufacturer's support site to see what it is capable of. Depending on the results, there would be at least three options:
o Upgrade the PC with a wireless card that supports 5 GHz 802.11n.
o Connect the PC to the AirPort with Ethernet.
o Get a second AirPort and configure both into a "dual band" wireless network. With this type of network, non-"n" devices would connect to their "own" network.
Setting up a "dual band" network is described in the Designing AirPort Networks document, starting on page 48.

Hanging AirPort connection?

I have an odd problem. Every now and then, my AirPort connection hangs. It usually occurs immediately after coming out of sleep. I am running 802.11g, not broadcasting SSID, using WPA2 personal. Most of the time, it works great. Every now and then, it will indicate that the network is connected (in Internet Connect), I can run ifconfig and see an appropriate IP address, yet a ping just hangs. Even funnier, it will hang, come back for a minute or two, then hang again.
Anyone seen this? The only way to restore it ends up being rebooting, which is very un-Mac-like.
Thanks.

This sleep issue has been plaguing some mac users for at least the past year.
Not odd, not new.
I'm not sure why it happens.
but if you're familiar with Terminal and ifconfig, try this instead of rebooting:
sudo ifocnfig en1 down
sudo ifconfig en1 up
(en0=ethernet cable, en1=airport)
This may be a workaround for you

Connection hange while trying to connect via ssh.

Hi all,
I have this problem and i fixed it, just wanted to understand the logic behiend it.
I tried to login to a machine via ssh.
After providing the username and password, the connection hang until you press CTRL -C.
I checked DNS configuration, and some other stuff.
The problem was a NFS entry in the vfstab that was unreachable.
When i removed it, the connection went smoothlly.
My question is, why that entry caused that problem ?
Thanks!

At login, the shell runs 'quota -v' to display any over-quota conditions that might exist.
If the NFS mount was not mounted with "noquta", then it will send an RPC request to the server. If the server is down, that request will take 60 seconds to time out. If you have multiple mounts to the server, they might run sequentially.
The login should complete after a minute or so, but most users won't wait that long.
Darren

IPod suddenly no longer connects to any computer, hangs and clicks/pops

I recently (within the last two weeks) started using a program called PodUtil ( http://www.kennettnet.co.uk/software/podutil.php ) to manage my music library between my work and home computers. Everything seems to have gone off without a hitch, but as of Friday my iPod started behaving very strangely.
I was playing a song on it through iTunes on my work computer when all of the sudden the song cut out and iTunes froze up. I was forced to disconnect my iPod manually without disconnecting it through the computer, and when I hooked it back up my entire system locked up until the iPod was once again removed. I plugged it in again and left the system alone and finally fifteen minutes later I got an error message saying that an iPod was detected but the iPod software wasn't installed. Despite this not being true, I uninstalled iTunes and the iPod software, reinstalled them, and finally the iPod worked correctly.
Until I brought it home and plugged it into my home computer and the exact same problem occurred. I once again uninstalled iTunes and the iPod software but this time it didn't fix the problem. The iPod refuses to connect now to any of the computers I've tried it on (home, work, my roommate's PC and even a work mac) and every time it's plugged in the system hangs until it's disconnected. I have also noticed that when it's plugged in every few minutes there's a loud hum and a clicking/popping sound that reminds me of drive heads failing on a harddrive.
The iPod itself works fine, I can play everything and it gives me absolutely no trouble. It's when I connect it to a computer that the problems begin.
I'm at a loss for what to do. I've tried every single thing under the knowledge base including rebooting and reinstalling and nothing's helped. It almost seems like there's a physical problem with the iPod (from the clicking sound) but the clicks never happen during normal operation and I haven't dropped it or anything that would've broken it. It's out of warranty and I'd rather not pay the cost of a new iPod to get this one fixed. Furthermore I took my songs off of my computer to free up space and the last music backup I have isn't entirely recent. But I can't even get it to restore even if I wanted to because it doesn't respond when it's connected. Any help will be great. Thanks!

- See:
iPod touch: Hardware troubleshooting
iPhone and iPod touch: Charging the battery
- Try another cable. iOS 7 made the iPod/computer more sensiteve to cable problems
- Inspect the dock connector on the iPod for bent or missing contacts, foreign material, corroded contacts, broken, missing or cracked plastic.
- Make an appointment at the Genius Bar of an Apple store.
Apple Retail Store - Genius Bar

Lost airport connection to my emac

I have an airport extreme with a new intel imac and an older emac working off it. It had been doing fine then the suddenly the emac no longer works. when i try to connect to the wireless network the internet connect program freezes. the Imac is still doing fine. the icon for the airport is not in the menu bar of the emac but the card is read by the system profiler. i have disconnected the card and reconnected it. i have rebooted all the modems and routers but the system prefference network sstatus still says "airport does not have an IP address and cannot connect to the internet". any ideas?
emac Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Try the following, in order, on the eMac until resolved:
1a. Delete Preferred Network(s)
- System Preferences > Network > AirPort > Configure
- In the "By default, join:" pull-down menu, select "Preferred networks"
- Delete the network(s) you regularly use from the list
1b. Delete AirPort Keychain Entries
- Launch the "Keychain Access" application located in Applications/Utilties.
- Click on the "Kind" filter at the top, and look for any "AirPort network password" entries...and delete them.
- Restart, or log out then back in.
1c. Add Preferred Network(s)
- System Preferences > Network > AirPort > Configure
- In the "By default, join:" pull-down menu, select "Preferred networks"
- Add the preferred network(s) using the "+" button.
- Restart or log out then back in.
2. Run the Disk Utility to repair Disk Permissions.
3. Turn off the Mac OS X Firewall
- System Preferences > Sharing > Firewall
- Click the "Stop" button.
4. Move System Configuration Files
(Note: You will have to reestablish your network connections settings.)
- Go to /Library/Preferences
- Move the SystemConfiguration folder and com.apple.networkConfig.plist file to the desktop.
- Restart your Mac. (Note: OS X will rebuild the files that are now sitting on your desktop. If this doesn't resolve the issue, you can move the folder & .plist file back to it's original location.)

I seem to have lost some of my settings and now I cannot configure my airport connection. How do I get my settings back?

Hello. First time using this. Still trying to figure out how to post my questions. I seem to have lost some of my settings and now I cannot configure my airport connection. How do I get my settings back?

If you are using cable and a Nethear router sounds like from the information you provide before your Airport setting are setup improperly. PPoE is not something a cable service would need to work. Fallow the steps I will provide bellow, I will add some screen shots also to assist if necessary.
1 - Open System Preferences from  (Menu)
2 - Click "Network"
3 - From the Network window you are going to wanna make sure Location is : Automatic and Show is : Airport
4 - Once the Show: Airport is select you should see a window like this, my window is selected for Ethernet simply because I am no longer running Tiger but the window will look the same.
5 - You will want to click on the PPPoE tab and you should see this
6 - You're gonna wanna make sure " connection using PPPoE " is not select, if it is make sure to uncheck this option
7 - Once this is uncheck make sure to click "Apply Now"
8 - You will want to click back on to the "TCP/IP" tab and make sure IPv4 is set to " Using DHCP "
9 - If the option to " Apply Now" is available again please click this
10 - Once this is done go to your Aiport Menu and see if your network is listed and select your network and eneter the password if necessary.
11 - If after these steps you still have issues I would recommend Power Cylcing your Router and Modem for about 5 minutes
12 - Make sure all lights are off when unplugging the Router and the Modem
13 - Some Modems have backup batterys so you may have to push in a tiny button on the back with a pin

Airport connection dropping off when computer sleeps

Starting with the latest 10.4.8 update my airport connection drops when the computer goes to sleep. No amount of configuring will get the computer to recognize my airport. Turning off the power to the airport, waiting, and re-connecting does no good. The only way to get wireless is to restart. Once restarted the airport connection is re-established without any configuration and continues to be fine until the computer goes to sleep. Hard wiring ethernet works at all times without problems.

thanks,
i read the doc, looked in the system prefs where my re-connect was set to "preferred" and there was only one wpa network listed. i deleted it from the list then re-added per the apple document. will see if this works.
in my own mind i don't think this is the solution but am keeping an open mind. the weird thing about my situation is that after the computer sleeps there are no available networks under the airport menu. i know in fact there are 4-6 in my area. after restarting the 4-6, including mine, networks are all there and my network has been connected to.

Loosing Airport Connections - Core Duo

My AirPort connection doesn't work on MacBook Pro handed to me. No bars in the AirPort menu, no network shows.
MacBook Pro 15", Intel Core Duo, 2.16 GHz, 2GB RAM
Running Leopard 10.5.4 with all other Apple updates
AirPort Extreme (0x168C, 0x86 - Atheros Card), Firmware: 1.4.3.1
Every once in a blue moon, when the Mac was off for a while, it asks to connect to any wifi network around. It rarely connects to the selected wifi network and then only for about 5 minutes before it degrades constantly (watching it with iStumbler) and in about 5 minutes it's dead. When it connects iStumbler never shows more than about 50% signal strength.
In order to get a signal at all I must be right next to the router, only to die after 5-10 minutes. If I try to join the network, it throws a "connection timeout" error.
System.log reports:
Jul 5 15:27:16 localhost kernel[0]: AirPort_Athr5424ab: Ethernet address 00:17:f2:4b:c1:c0
Jul 5 15:27:39 klunker airportd[57]: Could not find any preferred networks; trying broadcast requests..
Jul 5 15:27:42 klunker airportd[57]: Broadcast requests also failed..
Jul 5 15:27:43 klunker airportd[57]: Probing highest ranked networks via directed scan..
Jul 5 15:28:44 klunker SystemUIServer[90]: Error: airportd MIG failed = 1 ((os/kern) invalid address) (port = 25967)
Jul 5 15:29:35 klunker airportd[169]: Error: __ACNetworkAssociate() failed to find Hoefts
Jul 5 15:29:35 klunker SystemUIServer[90]: Error: airportd MIG failed = -6 ((null)) (port = 25967)
Jul 5 15:29:35 klunker airportd[169]: Error: processcommanddict() failed
Jul 5 16:00:37 klunker iStumbler[172]: Exception raised during posting of notification. Ignored. exception: '* -[NSCFArray objectAtIndex:]: index (-1( or possibly larger)) beyond bounds (0)' invoked observer method: '* -[AirPortPlugin tableViewSelectionDidChange:]' observer: 0x191750 notification name: 'NSTableViewSelectionDidChangeNotification'
This happens on various networks (not just my home network with a Netgear router - mixed b/g, channel 6, WPA)
I first checked on my router (switched channels, removed encryption, updated firmware, reset everything). Tried different wifi networks. Nothing would improve it.
I've tried all of the Mac solutions I could find online:
Removing the airport prefs, booting into safe mode, turning IPv6 off, DNS entries, removing and adding the Airport setup, turned the airport utility process off (I use a Netgear router), reset PRAM, Repair Permissions...
I even reseated the card and the antennae (2) in case it was a bad connection.
I finally erased everything and installed from the original disks 10.4.6 and tried upgrading slowly (tried 10.4.6, 10.4.11, 10.5.0, 10.5.1, 10.5.3, 10.5.4), all the way up to 10.5.4.
iStumbler or AP Grapher find the network at the signal strength of about 20% while the Airport menu indicator can't see or connect at all.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Have you connected to the router using an ethernet cable? Try this to check that the signals are getting to & through the router. From my own experience it is most likely the wifi connection that is not working as it should.
Make sure that you also do the routine maintenance things such as using Disk Utility to repair permissions. Errors here can affect some processes.
I suggest that you also report the problem to Apple by clicking on the Contact Us link at the bottom of this page. On the screen that comes up choose the most appropriate link at the lower end of the RH column. I would include this copy of the System log. This is the main way we users have of getting Apple's attention. They don't promise any direct response but they will check the issue. You should also give them info about the router(s) you have had this problem with & any other info that might help them sort it out.
Neville

IMac Loses Airport Connectivity

Hi,
I have two identical 20" Intel Core Duo iMacs (see hardware review below). One is at home and the other at work. I have been experiencing a problem on both computers where my Airport connection drops "randomly". After the connection is dropped ALL available networks are no longer available from the Airport menu, and won't become available again until after a reboot. I've tried toggling Airport on/off, restarting the router, waiting, and nothing but a reboot works. What is odd is that this exact same behavior happens both at home and work -- the router brand is the same at both locations (linksys) but the models are not. I have noticed that this occurs more often when I'm using more network resources (uploading a large file, for example), but that isn't always the case.
Any ideas as to what is going on? I don't have any 3rd party software on my machines that I believe could cause such behavior.
Thanks.
Hardware Overview:
Machine Name: iMac
Machine Model: iMac4,1
Processor Name: Intel Core Duo
Processor Speed: 2 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2
L2 Cache (per processor): 2 MB
Memory: 1.5 GB
Bus Speed: 667 MHz
Boot ROM Version: IM41.0055.B08
SMC Version: 1.1f5
System Software Overview:
System Version: Mac OS X 10.4.9 (8P2137)
Kernel Version: Darwin 8.9.1
AirPort Card Information:
Wireless Card Type: AirPort Extreme (0x14E4, 0x89)
Wireless Card Locale: USA
Wireless Card Firmware Version: Broadcom BCM43xx 1.0 (4.80.79.1)
Current Wireless Network: linksys
Wireless Channel: 6
Intel iMac Mac OS X (10.4.9)

Welcome to Discussions, Scott Newman1!
There were a couple of AirPort Extreme Updates (2007-002 and 2007-003) that were meant for Intel-based Macs. I hope you have them both installed. Check your Software Update panel of System Preferences - the "Updates" half of the mini-menu bar to see whether or not they got installed. Even if they did, it will probably be worthwhile to download them straight from Support>Downloads and install them over top of what you have now. I would also do the same with the OS X Combo Update for Intel. Doing all that will not duplicate, will only fill in something missing or flawed.
After doing that, you'll undoubtedly need to delete your configuration and enter a new one using the Network panel of System Preferences. There are a couple angles from which you can approach it with some fiddling. After some fussing, a couple restarts and sitting overnight/a few hours, it should straighten itself out so that you'll never have a problem again. If not, come on back:)

Airport connects, but still no internet activity...

Heya. This is my first post so be gentle with me.
I've recently had an issue with my Powerbook G4 12 inch where I could connect to an open wireless network (no WEP password) and my internet would function fine, until the past three days when Airport says it's connected but I can't browse the internet, use BitTorrent etc.
Now when I open Firefox, it doesn't go immediately to a "page cannot be displayed" dialog, it just keeps looking for the page for a few minutes. Also, when I run network diagnostics, everything is green until "internet".
I don't have access to the modem or router base station.
Anyone have any ideas?

Heya. This is my first post so be gentle with me.
I've recently had an issue with my Powerbook G4 12
inch where I could connect to an open wireless
network (no WEP password) and my internet would
function fine, until the past three days when Airport
says it's connected but I can't browse the internet,
use BitTorrent etc.
Now when I open Firefox, it doesn't go immediately to
a "page cannot be displayed" dialog, it just keeps
looking for the page for a few minutes. Also, when I
run network diagnostics, everything is green until
"internet".
I don't have access to the modem or router base
station.
Anyone have any ideas?
I just posted my own experience in the forum "internet, networking and Power Mac G4" which is the same as the one of nofryzone. In that discussion, I think Lawrence Kahan has the answer to our problem. I will still have to try his proposed solution because it will entail changing the firmware of the linksys wrt54g router. In order to connect, I asked the help of [email protected] and they made me configure my airport connection manually placing the values that Lawrence Kahan wrote in his post. You will have to open system preferences and click on network. Configure Airport settings manually and enter the IP address 192.168.1.55, subnet mask 255.255.255.0, router 192.168.1.1. For the DNS server, you will have to get the value of DNS1 & DNS2 of your router and put them in the field for DNS server.
At least for now I am able to connect but through a static IP address and not through DHCP.
powerbook G4 12inch Mac OS X (10.4.7)

Internet works, but I have an exclamation mark instead of AirPort connection and cannot connect to my WiFi.. PLEASE HELP!

Internet works, but I have an exclamation mark instead of AirPort connection and cannot connect to my WiFi.. PLEASE HELP!

When you see an exclamation point in the Wi-Fi menu, from the menu bar, select
 ▹ System Preferences... ▹ Network
Click the Assist me button and select Assistant. Follow the prompts. You may get a warning that Wi-Fi is not available, that you're too far from the base station, or that you're using the wrong password.
Assuming that you've ruled out those possibilities, restart the computer and try again. If there's no change, click the lock icon in the lower left corner of the preference pane and authenticate, if necessary. From the Location menu at the top of the window, select Edit Locations. A sheet will drop down. Click the plus-sign button to create a new location. Give it any name you want. In the new location, set up the Wi-Fi service with the same settings you used before. Click Applyand test.
If there's still no connection, and if you have control of the router, compare its settings to Apple's recommendations. Some third-party routers may be incompatible in 802.11b/g/n radio mode. Try setting the mode to 802.11n only.

Need to configure Airport connection to access corporate wireless network

Need to configure Airport connection to access corporate wireless network.
Have imported my certificate from Windows XP machine into keychain and made Leopard always trust in order to authenticate automatically into my corporate wireless network. Also attempted to establish a new 802.1x connection via network preferences without any success. It keeps asking me for username and password even though we used self-generated certificates to log into corporate wireless network. Does anybody have any instructions on how to successfully configure certificates in Leopard?

Welcome to the discussion area, jackregan!
You'll need to "hard reset" the Time Capsule and then reconfigure it again. To do this, you will hold in the reset button until you see the amber light begin to blink more quickly, keep holding another second or two and then release.
The "hard reset" will not affect the data on your Time Capsule
Now you can open AirPort Utility and configure the Time Capsule using wireless (be sure to log on to the default network which will have a name like Apple Network xxxxxx), or you can connect an ethernet cable from your computer to one of the LAN <-> ports on the Time Capsule to have AirPort Utility communicate with it that way.
When you open AirPort Utility, click Continue to follow the guided setup to re-configure your Time Capsule. You would choose the option to "Create a wireless network" when you are given the configuration options.

MacBook keeps losing Airport connectability

It's an older Airport, a white 11g.
For no obvious reason, my MacBook will decide that it can't connect to the Airport. Reset doesn't help, nor does restarting the MacBook. Only deleting the current Airport connection settings in the Control Panel and making a fresh new on does it.
Other Macs and my iPod are usually able to connect when this happens, so I have to assume it's a problem in the MacBook, though I don't know what. Hoping someone here might have ideas.
I'm on OS 10.7.5, but have Tinkertool, so I'm able to make the Library visible if there's something in there I could stand to delete, a preference or something.
Appreciate any help you guys can offer - thanks.

It may not help but to answer your question about deleting a Preference file, drag the following two to the Desktop, or directly to the Trash, and then reconfigure your network preferences:
/Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/Preferences.plist
/Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.airport.preferences.plist
If you select either of the above lines (triple-click it) and then control-click (or right click, or two-finger tap) you can use the contextual menu to select Services > Reveal. The Finder will open with the file already selected. TinkerTool is not required to do this and I don't recommend using such third party system hacks in general. Though I believe it's unlikely, that could conceivably be the cause of this problem or others.
The reason deleting the .plist files may not help is that deleting your AirPort connection preferences alone should have been sufficient. Anything's possible though so let me know.

Intel iMac keeps randomly dropping Airport connection

My Intel Duo core iMac keeps randomly dropping its Airport connection. It never used to do this until a few months ago. The Airport menu bars randomly show half grey, or all grey, and either I have to turn Airport on/off from the menu to get all the bars back to black, or sometimes they just come back on.
Logically, I guess it can only be three things, a problem in the (a) Intel iMac (eg. airport card), (b) my Airport Express Base station, or (c) my ADSL 2+ NetComm modem router. Now, fortunately I have a first generation white G5 iMac set up side by side to help diagnose the problem. When the Intel iMac airports bars go half grey or all grey, the Airport bars on the white G5 iMac stay black or at worst show one grey bar.
At face value, I guess this points to the Intel iMac itself being the problem? Or could it be that the Airport Express Base station is the problem, and the Intel iMac is more sensitive to the problem than the white G5 iMac? I'm sort of leaning to the Airport Base station as the problem because when the Intel iMac drops out, the white G5 coincidentally drops out albeit by only one grey bar generally.
Its quite annoying because its so unpredictable and intermittent. My Intel iMac has full Applecare, but I would feel stupid to haul it into Apple only for them to say I wasted their time and the problem must be the Airport Base station/modem router.
All comments welcome!
Fox
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Well, for what its worth, I'll give you the update to my problem. The Apple technician said during all their testing, my Intel iMac never dropped the Airport connection once - and the problem might be some interference between the iMac and the Airport Express unit. That didn't quite make sense because my white G5 iMac seems fine; the occasional variable signal but not a full drop out. Anyway, the technician said he applied a 'few software updates' - although I don't know what these updates were, especially since I always apply Apple public updates as they are released.
Now, when I got my Intel iMac back about a week ago, I am very happy to say the dropout/weak signal problem appears to be no more (touch wood). Thus, I don't know what was done, but it has seemingly fixed things so far.
Would anyone know what updates Apple might have applied - and I assume its something that is not readily available to the public, since I always keep an eye on public software updates.
Fox

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