Internet Connect opens randomly.

If I connect to the internet by sharing a connection between my iMac and PowerBook no problems at all. When I connect using a wireless router, internet connect opens periodically. It's not really a problem - more a nuissance, a big one after a while. I'm sure it's a setting that I changed at some point in time. It never used to do it when I connected to a wireless router, but now it does. How can I prevent it from opening under it's own will?

I don't know offhand, too many variables, but perhaps using Liitle Snitch...
http://www.obdev.at/products/littlesnitch/index.html
which has a 30 minute limit on the free version, would tell you exactly what it is calling that box up!?

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We are having trouble with the connection holding. Provider is confident that the router is working, they were here when it went down. Do we have a virus?

Do we have a virus?
Highly unlikely.
Is this a wifi connection that drops? Are you fine if you hardwire via Ethernet to the router?
See this - http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4628?viewlocale=en_US.
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Clicking on HTML links in Entourage opens Internet Connect.

Help.. Whenever I click on a link that is in an Entourage email Internet Connect opens instead of Safari. I am using a powerbook g4 with the latest Tiger update and the latest Microsoft office updates. The powerbook is connected by Ethernet and Safari is able to access the web. Airport is turned off and the modem is not connected. I can copy and paste the links into Safari with success but I would rather Internet Connect not open everytime I select a link. Very frustrating.
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Do you use the Internal Modem on a regular basis for anything such as receiving or sending faxes?
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Losing internet connection randomly (wlan stays connected) - wicd

Since about a week now I'm running into endless problems with my wlan connection - before that, all worked well (I didn't changed any hardware)
I'm losing my internet connection in random intervals and I can't track down the reason for this problem. I've a dual-boot setup with win7 on it and there I have constant connection so this can't be any hardware problem.
I am using wicd to manage my wlan (wicd-kde, wicd-curses).
always used dhcp and never made any problems -even tried with static IP now which unfortunately didn't help.
One thing to mention - even if I'm connected, the connection seems very slow, compared to the laptop I'm on (in the same network).
now some console output:
lspci | grep -i net
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8056 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 12)
05:02.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
(both on-board - lan is not used - just wlan)
sudo tail -1 /etc/rc.conf
DAEMONS=(!hwclock dbus syslog-ng !network !netfs crond wicd postfix sshd)
iwconfig wlan0
wlan0 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:"Schnulli"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point: 00:1E:69:9F:22:3F
Bit Rate=18 Mb/s Tx-Power=20 dBm
Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality=44/70 Signal level=-66 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:4238 Invalid misc:6580 Missed beacon:0
ifconfig wlan0
wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:15:AF:0F:C8:48
inet addr:192.168.0.12 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::215:afff:fe0f:c848/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:20308 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:16695 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:24970986 (23.8 Mb) TX bytes:2037458 (1.9 Mb)
/var/log/wicd/wicd.log:
2011/07/18 15:53:39 :: ---------------------------
2011/07/18 15:53:39 :: wicd initializing...
2011/07/18 15:53:39 :: ---------------------------
2011/07/18 15:53:39 :: wicd is version 1.7.0 552
2011/07/18 15:53:40 :: setting backend to external
2011/07/18 15:53:40 :: trying to load backend external
2011/07/18 15:53:40 :: successfully loaded backend external
2011/07/18 15:53:40 :: trying to load backend external
2011/07/18 15:53:40 :: successfully loaded backend external
2011/07/18 15:53:40 :: Automatically detected wireless interface wlan0
2011/07/18 15:53:40 :: setting wireless interface wlan0
2011/07/18 15:53:40 :: automatically detected wired interface eth0
2011/07/18 15:53:40 :: setting wired interface eth0
2011/07/18 15:53:40 :: setting wpa driver wext
2011/07/18 15:53:40 :: setting use global dns to False
2011/07/18 15:53:40 :: setting global dns
2011/07/18 15:53:40 :: global dns servers are None None None
2011/07/18 15:53:40 :: domain is None
2011/07/18 15:53:40 :: search domain is None
2011/07/18 15:53:40 :: setting automatically reconnect when connection drops True
2011/07/18 15:53:40 :: Setting dhcp client to 0
2011/07/18 15:53:40 :: Wireless configuration file found...
2011/07/18 15:53:40 :: Wired configuration file found...
2011/07/18 15:53:40 :: chmoding configuration files 0600...
2011/07/18 15:53:40 :: chowning configuration files root:root...
2011/07/18 15:53:40 :: Using wireless interface...wlan0
2011/07/18 15:53:40 :: Using wired interface...eth0
2011/07/18 15:53:44 :: hidden
2011/07/18 15:53:45 :: Autoconnecting...
2011/07/18 15:53:47 :: No wired connection present, attempting to autoconnect to wireless network
2011/07/18 15:53:49 :: hidden
2011/07/18 15:53:49 :: trying to automatically connect to...Schnulli
2011/07/18 15:53:49 :: Connecting to wireless network Schnulli
2011/07/18 15:53:51 :: Putting interface down
2011/07/18 15:53:51 :: Releasing DHCP leases...
2011/07/18 15:53:51 :: Setting false IP...
2011/07/18 15:53:53 :: Stopping wpa_supplicant
2011/07/18 15:53:53 :: Flushing the routing table...
2011/07/18 15:53:53 :: Putting interface up...
2011/07/18 15:53:55 :: Generating psk...
2011/07/18 15:53:55 :: Attempting to authenticate...
2011/07/18 15:53:58 :: Running DHCP with hostname blub
2011/07/18 15:53:58 :: dhcpcd[1333]: version 5.2.12 starting
2011/07/18 15:53:58 ::
2011/07/18 15:53:59 :: dhcpcd[1333]: wlan0: rebinding lease of 192.168.0.12
2011/07/18 15:53:59 ::
2011/07/18 15:54:00 :: dhcpcd[1333]: wlan0: acknowledged 192.168.0.12 from 192.168.0.1
2011/07/18 15:54:00 ::
2011/07/18 15:54:00 :: dhcpcd[1333]: wlan0: checking for 192.168.0.12
2011/07/18 15:54:00 ::
2011/07/18 15:54:05 :: dhcpcd[1333]: wlan0: leased 192.168.0.12 for 604800000 seconds
2011/07/18 15:54:05 ::
2011/07/18 15:54:06 :: dhcpcd[1333]: forked to background, child pid 1388
2011/07/18 15:54:06 ::
2011/07/18 15:54:06 ::
2011/07/18 15:54:06 :: DHCP connection successful
2011/07/18 15:54:06 :: not verifying
2011/07/18 15:54:06 :: Connecting thread exiting.
2011/07/18 15:54:09 :: Sending connection attempt result Success
really don't know what to do now - help is very much appreciated!
thanks in advance

Thanks for you answer!
Actually, I tried it with dhclient too and it didn't helped at all.
I switched to netcfg(2) now and it seems working - wicd is completely removed from my system - hopefully it will stay like this now.
the only problem for now is that my connection seems quite slow - any ideas where/how I can track down possible issues?
still I've no idea what was/is causing those problems since in win7 all works well..

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Problem started 2 weeks ago
Only on my new iMac, my internet connection disappears randomly, without any problem at the same time on the laptop or iPhone, and with no loss of Airport function/connection, only the internet and mail access is lost, and only on the iMac. I tried changing location, no help. Reboot the Airport, no help. I ran the newest Disk Warrior and did other checks on my system, and it all checks out OK. It's easy to think that things do help at first, b/c the connection comes and goes, seemingly at random.
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Just to clarify I don't mean closing the laptop but just putting it into sleep mode. I've read you can't keep a connection open while the laptop is closed but I was wondering if there was a difference between putting it to sleep and closing the laptop.
Message was edited by: Boogie Chillen

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I have a 500mhz G3 slot loading iMac running 10.3.9
About 2 weeks ago, after waking FrankenMac up from sleep mode, I noticed the Airport status symbol failed to appear in the menu bar (next to the volume/date&time etc).
Looking into my Network settings revealed that I was indeed still connected to the internet, via my Airport, all systems go. However, I noticed that "show airport status in menu bar" was unchecked, so I checked the box. Which apparently did jack squat b/c there's still no icon.
For the last couple weeks, as long as I've been connected to the internet, I could really give a flying flip about whether the airport status icon is there or not. I mean, seriously. I know this computer is a little old so why rock the boat on something trivial?
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_A crash log shows:_
Host Name: Handlevandal's-Computer.local
Date/Time: 2008-06-18 09:13:15 -0400
OS Version: 10.3.9 (Build 7W98)
Report Version: 2
Command: Internet Connect
Path: /Applications/Internet Connect.app/Contents/MacOS/Internet Connect
Version: ??? (???)
PID: 437
Thread: Unknown
Link (dyld) error:
dyld: /Applications/Internet Connect.app/Contents/MacOS/Internet Connect truncated or malformed library: /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/InternetConnect.framework/Versions/A/Internet Connect (file is empty)
I attempted to open Software Update next to see if there was something critical (ha!) I might be missing. Apple menu->software update and it was a repeat performance of Internet Connect, except this time I wouldn't even get so much as the Software Update icon in the dock. The dock would move everything to the left, as if it was going to open, then....nothing.
*Software update was working as of 6/14*, when I updated (perhaps foolishly) to Quicktime 7.5.
_Crash log shows:_
Mac OS X Version 10.3.9 (Build 7W98)
2008-06-18 13:56:17 -0400
2008-06-18 13:56:19.213 SystemUIServer[200] * -[NSBundle load]: Error loading code /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Apple80211.framework/Versions/A/Resources/Cli entController.bundle/Contents/MacOS/ClientController for bundle /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Apple80211.framework/Resources/ClientControll er.bundle, error code 1 (link edit error code 1, error number 88 (dyld: /System/Library/CoreServices/SystemUIServer.app/Contents/MacOS/SystemUIServer truncated or malformed library: /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/InternetConnect.framework/Versions/A/Internet Connect (file is empty)
2008-06-18 13:56:19.214 SystemUIServer[200] Error loading AirPort Menu Extra: Couldn't initialize shared Controller
2008-06-18 13:56:19.227 SystemUIServer[200] failed to load Menu Extra: NSBundle </System/Library/CoreServices/Menu Extras/AirPort.menu> (loaded)
dyld: /Applications/Internet Connect.app/Contents/MacOS/Internet Connect truncated or malformed library: /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/InternetConnect.framework/Versions/A/Internet Connect (file is empty)
2008-06-18 13:58:33.684 System Preferences[338] Warning: TIFF image with unknown extra samples assumed to have unassociated alpha. RGB values have been premultiplied. Use tiffutil -cat to fix.
This ridiculously long post boils down to 2 questions, really.
• Any ideas why Internet Connect and Software Update won't open and how to fix?
• Where in the world is my Airport status icon? (not that it matters since I'm connected to the internet, but doggone it!)
I've run Disk Utility, repaired permissions and the HD checks out fine. I'm just at a loss (not surprising, given my limited amount of fix-it-yerself knowledge)
Should I just put up, shut up and be grateful that these problems, while aggravating, aren't majorly disrupting my life?

Okay no worries, can't find where to delete this post...

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