Leopard wireless issue and responsibility

I've seen a bunch of posts here saying that the wireless problem many are having with Leopard isn't a 10.5 software issue--it's a hardware/third party issue, and Leopard is merely exposing a fault with routers or whatever.
I just wanted to say that even if that's true, it's Apple's responsibility. I've seen many posts where folks say they can connect with Windows and Tiger, but not with Leopard. If there's a router flaw that only shows up with Leopard, and not with Tiger or Windows, even if it's technically not Leopard's fault, it makes Apple look bad, and could hurt their reputation. If I was an IT person at a place with many Windows and Mac machines, and Leopard breaks the wireless while Tiger and Windows continue to work, I wouldn't get rid of the routers, I'd get rid of Leopard (again, even if technically Leopard isn't at fault).
Also, does anyone know definitively if the fault lies with Leopard or not? If anyone has any hard evidence either way, please provide it. I think there's a lot of speculating going on.

Jimtron wrote:
I've seen a bunch of posts here saying that the wireless problem many are having with Leopard isn't a 10.5 software issue--it's a hardware/third party issue, and Leopard is merely exposing a fault with routers or whatever.
I just wanted to say that even if that's true, it's Apple's responsibility. I've seen many posts where folks say they can connect with Windows and Tiger, but not with Leopard. If there's a router flaw that only shows up with Leopard, and not with Tiger or Windows, even if it's technically not Leopard's fault, it makes Apple look bad, and could hurt their reputation. If I was an IT person at a place with many Windows and Mac machines, and Leopard breaks the wireless while Tiger and Windows continue to work, I wouldn't get rid of the routers, I'd get rid of Leopard (again, even if technically Leopard isn't at fault).
Also, does anyone know definitively if the fault lies with Leopard or not? If anyone has any hard evidence either way, please provide it. I think there's a lot of speculating going on.
i was pretty mad when i started dropping signals and getting the "self-assigned ip" message from my d-link router after the 10.5.2 update.
but then i went out today and bought an apple airport extreme base station. i can't believe how easy it was to configure. i was up and running in 5 minutes or less.
and now my connection is stable (so far, anyway) and my download speed has jumped by a massive amount. yesterday, i was downloading a .dmg file and my transfer rate was 46 KB/s. i tried the same download just now and it was over 1.2 MB/s. i'm sure that's not the average speed boost, but it was certainly significant.
as for responsibility - well, yes, apples should play well with others. but now that i have an apple router - if i ever have to call applecare, at least they can't blame it on a 3rd party router!

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Leopard wireless issues and clean install

I've been wrestling with wireless problems since upgrading to Leopard (I've discussed my issues on this forum). I've tried all the suggested fixes I've found, but still have spotty wireless. I'm going to try a clean install next (erasing my hard drive). Any suggestions on how to do this and increase my chances of solving the problem? I'll have to install Tiger first, as I only have a Leopard upgrade disc (not full install).
Thanks in advance.

There is an Upgrade DVD. It's called the "CPU Drop-In DVD" and was being shipped with new Macs that had already been built when Leopard was released. Several of my clients received their new Mac's with Tiger after Leopard was released. It was a choice of either take back the computers and reformat them and then repackage them. Apple chose to just include the disc.
I suppose the DVD could do a fresh install on a machine it came with, or one that matched certain criteria.
Many users of older machines have tried to use these DVD's to install Leopard to their Mac's that otherwise meet the hardware requirements for Leopard. It didn't work. The installer refuses to install to the older machine.
http://www.google.com/search?q=Leopard+drop+in+dvdproblem
I have no information about how the installer verify's the suitability of a machine, but using the DVD on another computer would violate the EULA.
Another thought... If you do a fresh install of Leopard you will probably want to reinstall iLife from your Tiger DVD's. iLife is not on the retail DVD, and I don't think it's on the drop-in DVD.
You may want to make a bootable clone of your existing Leopard installation with SuperDuper, just in case there are any problems with the installation or there is no improvement. Then you can just re-clone your backup to your boot drive to save time and effort.

A caper of missing eth0, wireless issues, and missing tools

Hello all!
I'm a recent Arch convert from Xubuntu, and I've had some troubles installing it on my Gateway NV79. The first problem was that of going to black screen. This issue I remedied by entering "i915.modeset=0" at the end of the kernel line. This allowed me to boot into the live environment, and it installed correctly, but several things are amiss. Firstly, in the package group selection menu, I only get "base" and "base-devel," (I'm installing from a core image on CD, by the way) and while this isn't nessicarily an error, the Beginner's Guide and Installation Guide both imply that there would be more selection. I also cannot find my eth0. According to the Configuring Network wiki page, I need to issue "hwdetect --show-net," in order to find out which module works with my ethernet card (lspci tells me it's a Broadcom Netlink BCM57780) but am told that I have no hwdetect, either in live or installed environs. I also cannot get wifi to work, using either of the methods outlined in the wiki page for wpa_supplicant.
Any suggestions? Any command output or config files I should copy-paste?
ninja edit: OH, and I wasn't sure whether or not I should put this in the Newbie Corner, or Laptops forums. If I've done wrong, could a mod please move this? Sorry for the inconvenience.
Last edited by Ansikt (2010-11-15 03:00:28)

You did it! I haven't run ping yet, but here's what ifconfig has to say:
ifconfig -a wrote:
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:26:22:98:07:93
BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Interrupt:16
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 70:1A:04:9A:F6:DB
BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
And since you asked:
lspci wrote:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor DRAM Controller (rev 12)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 12)
00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset HECI Controller (rev 06)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset USB2 Enhanced Host Controller (rev 05)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset High Definition Audio (rev 05)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 1 (rev 05)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 2 (rev 05)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset USB2 Enhanced Host Controller (rev 05)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev a5)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 5 Series Chipset LPC Interface Controller (rev 05)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset 4 port SATA AHCI Controller (rev 05)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset SMBus Controller (rev 05)
00:1f.6 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset Thermal Subsystem (rev 05)
01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetLink BCM57780 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe (rev 01)
02:00.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR928X Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) (rev 01)
ff:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor QuickPath Architecture Generic Non-core Registers (rev 02)
ff:00.1 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor QuickPath Architecture System Address Decoder (rev 02)
ff:02.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor QPI Link 0 (rev 02)
ff:02.1 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor QPI Physical 0 (rev 02)
ff:02.2 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor Reserved (rev 02)
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[Solved]Udev / brcmsmac / BCM4313 wireless issues and udevd

Hello guys,
after the last upgrade (kmod replacing module-init-tools)
[2012-01-24 10:30] starting full system upgrade
[2012-01-24 10:30] warning: /etc/modprobe.d/modprobe.conf saved as /etc/modprobe.d/modprobe.conf.pacsave
[2012-01-24 10:30] removed module-init-tools (3.16-3)
[2012-01-24 10:30] upgraded freeglut (2.6.0-1 -> 2.8.0-1)
[2012-01-24 10:30] upgraded gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg (0.10.12-1 -> 0.10.13-1)
[2012-01-24 10:30] upgraded gstreamer0.10-python (0.10.21-1 -> 0.10.22-1)
[2012-01-24 10:30] installed kmod (4-1)
[2012-01-24 10:30] upgraded udev (175-1 -> 178-1)
[2012-01-24 10:30] upgraded iproute2 (3.2.0-1 -> 3.2.0-2)
[2012-01-24 10:30] warning: /etc/rc.conf installed as /etc/rc.conf.pacnew
[2012-01-24 10:30] upgraded initscripts (2012.01.2-1 -> 2012.01.3-1)
[2012-01-24 10:30] upgraded mkinitcpio (0.8.0-3 -> 0.8.2-1)
[2012-01-24 10:30] upgraded package-query (1.0-1 -> 1.0.1-1)
[2012-01-24 10:30] upgraded pixman (0.24.0-1 -> 0.24.2-1)
[2012-01-24 10:30] upgraded poppler (0.18.2-1 -> 0.18.3-1)
[2012-01-24 10:30] upgraded poppler-glib (0.18.2-1 -> 0.18.3-1)
[2012-01-24 10:30] upgraded rxvt-unicode (9.14-1 -> 9.15-1)
[2012-01-24 10:30] upgraded sdl (1.2.14-10 -> 1.2.15-1)
[2012-01-24 10:30] upgraded sdl_image (1.2.11-1 -> 1.2.12-1)
[2012-01-24 10:30] upgraded sg3_utils (1.30-1 -> 1.33-1)
I'm having problems with brcmsmac
My wireless card:
0d:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4313 802.11b/g/n Wireless LAN Controller (rev 01)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 145c
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 17
Memory at c4400000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 3
Capabilities: [58] Vendor Specific Information: Len=78 <?>
Capabilities: [48] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
Capabilities: [d0] Express Endpoint, MSI 00
Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting
Capabilities: [13c] Virtual Channel
Capabilities: [160] Device Serial Number 00-00-12-ff-ff-47-ac-81
Capabilities: [16c] Power Budgeting <?>
Kernel driver in use: brcmsmac
Kernel modules: brcmsmac, bcma
after the boot the wireless was not working anymore, I blacklisted bcma and worked again (not shore why before worked), but during boot the boot stops for 20-30 sec and this happens:
Boot Log
Wed Jan 25 20:33:06 2012: :: Starting UDev Daemon [BUSY] [DONE]
Wed Jan 25 20:33:06 2012: :: Triggering UDev uevents [BUSY] [DONE]
Wed Jan 25 20:33:06 2012: :: Waiting for UDev uevents to be processed [BUSY] udevd[239]: worker [255] timeout, kill it
Wed Jan 25 20:33:06 2012:
Wed Jan 25 20:33:06 2012: udevd[239]: seq 1402 '/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1c.1/0000:0d:00.0' killed
Wed Jan 25 20:33:06 2012:
Wed Jan 25 20:33:06 2012: udevd[239]: worker [255] terminated by signal 9 (Killed)
Wed Jan 25 20:33:06 2012:
Wed Jan 25 20:33:06 2012: [DONE]
Wed Jan 25 20:33:06 2012: :: Bringing up loopback interface [BUSY] [DONE]
Kernel Log
Jan 25 20:33:08 localhost kernel: [ 5.717648] brcmutil: module is from the staging directory, the quality is unknown, you have been warned.
Jan 25 20:33:08 localhost kernel: [ 5.749097] brcmsmac: module is from the staging directory, the quality is unknown, you have been warned.
Jan 25 20:33:08 localhost kernel: [ 5.750309] brcmsmac 0000:0d:00.0: bus 13 slot 0 func 0 irq 3
Jan 25 20:33:08 localhost kernel: [ 5.750325] brcmsmac 0000:0d:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
Jan 25 20:33:08 localhost kernel: [ 5.750332] brcmsmac 0000:0d:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
Jan 25 20:33:08 localhost kernel: [ 5.761045] input: HP WMI hotkeys as /devices/virtual/input/input7
if I blacklist brcmsmac and leave bcma the above doesn't happen but the wireless is not detected *at all*.
Any idea what should I downgrade to get the thing working again correctly?
NOTE: all packages are up-to-date except for the kernel (3.1.5-1)
Last edited by r0b0t (2012-01-26 12:09:22)

I had to add brcmsmac to my modules array in rc.conf.

Have a D-Link DIR-655 Wireless Router and Having WEP or WPA issues? READ TH

I just contacted D-Link with the following Letter and wanted to post this here for anyone that may need it:
"I have to say that I do truly enjoy this product since I got it to work, but I have some things to clear up.
Are your Level 1 techs truly trained in networking equipment? I called 3 times for help with this issue and no one was able to help me nor completely understand my problem... I apologize for the tone, but it is frustrating when a tech repeats a procedure 4 times (I can understand repeating something 2 times if needed) - when I tell him it doesn't work I feel we should move onto another trouble shooting step. So what I would like to do is tell you what I did to fix the issue in case another person runs into this and they call you for support.
I have a an iMac (but this problem will be reproduced on any Mac with an Airport Extreme card) and I can only get on the internet wireleslly because of the location of my computer and the cable modem/router.
The DIR-655 that I picked up from best buy was Hardware Revision A2 and the Firmware was 1.05 (the latest at this current time)...
If I setup this router with the default settings. The wireless connectivity worked fine - although if I were to apply any type of security to the wireless settings (WEP, WPA 1 or 2 Personal) I would not be able to join the network. The Mac OS would keep telling me that there was an error joining the "xxxxxx" network (where xxxxxx was the SSID of my router). Anyways after tinkering for almost 3 hours and running back and forth resetting the router and testing with multiple Macs I was stumped and decided to get a copy of the 1.04 version of the firmware and downgrade the router back down to see if it was an issue with the latest firmware. Guess what - works perfect...
I would love to see a version 1.06 come out soon that addresses this issue and has the bug fixes from 1.05. But I can guarantee you there is something in the 1.05 firmware that will stop Macs from wirelessly connecting to the router when any type of wireless security is in place.
Please advise your techs of this issues and hopefully come up with a fix for this issue.
Thank you for your time."
I hate when tech support eats half your day with something that could have been fixed in minutes if people are properly trained.
Message was edited by: Twiggs462

I seem to remember that one post/thread had comments about successfully using this device but I can not seem to find it in either iChat 3 or the iChat 4 (iChat and iChat Sharing in Leopard)
The closest I got was a reference to it in this thread http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=7296647&#7296647 but no link.
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I've read others' posts on this issue and still need an answer that works. Safari keeps dropping wireless; no issues on a Dell laptop with XP in same room. Cleared cache, etc. - any other ideas?

I've read others' posts on this issue and still don't have an answer that works! Safari keeps dropping wireless connection every 5 - 10 minutes (it's gotten progressively worse over the last month). My husband, sitting 10 ft across from me, has no issues on a Dell laptop with XP so doesn't appear to be the router or ISP. Safari v5.0.6 Mac OS 10.5.8. Cleared cache, tried kill commands in Terminal, restarts, etc. Only restarting seems to keep it at bay for a period, but then it will start again. Any other ideas?

You posted a question about a problem connecting a Mac to a wireless router. You have an old Dell laptop that works well with that router.
I pointed you to a brief discussion with another poster who had a problem connecting a Mac to a wireless router. He had an old Dell laptop that worked well with that router. I suggested he upgrade the router firmware. He upgraded it, and the problem was solved. Another poster in that thread did the same thing, and his problem was also solved. Within the last day or two, I made the same suggestion to a third poster in another thread, and his problem was solved too.
Conclusion: Upgrading the router firmware helps sometimes.
If I understand your response, you think that checking for a firmware update isn't even worth a try. Am I missing something?

Not responsive wireless mouse and keyboard, No internet/wifi and Bluetooth connection.

Hi,
I need help as both my wireless mouse and wireless keyboard are totally no responsive and I replaced them with fresh new batteries. My wifi/internet connection is offline too. My Bluetooth signal is the Bluetooth with jagged lines "Bluetooth offline". I tried to disconnect all my USB devices and restarted. I tried the methods listed here but to no avail.
Yesterday afternoon there was a lightning in the skies and it caused blackout throughout my whole house. So it might be due to the power surge from the Lightning but all my other devices like my iPhone and modem router are working fine. I restarted the router too. It was fine the whole evening till nighttime yesterday. This morning I woke up, I can't do anything at all.

First thing to try is resetting the PRAM per the instructions below. If that does not work then please use the instructions on how to connect a Bluetooth mouse and keyboard below.
iMac SMC and PRAM reset
Troubleshooting wireless mouse and keyboard issues - Apple Support

Issues with Home Hub 3 Wireless. And lousy teleph...

I don't know if this forum is moderated or followed by BT support staff, but I sure hope so.
After coming from Virgn Media for my BB to BT infinity (Awesome speeds btw!) I'm pleased with the connection and, up until today, the support. I now have issues with my Wireless devices on the HH3.
This is the outline of my setup:
I have the Open reach modem connected to the home hub. I then have the 1Gbps ethernet port from the home hub that is connected to a 1Gbps 5 Port switch that connects my wired network together (Consisting of my Xbox, Networked Printer and my Desktop PC). Wireless serves 2 Laptops, an Xperia U phone, and a G5 Ipod touch (not all mine, I have a flat mate).
My issue is that when more than one device connects via WiFi, the WiFi network has serious issues: The connections don't drop per se, but websites are not delivered, data transfer is intermittant at best - i.e. the WiFi network simply does not work. When there is only one device, there is no issue.
Now, being a techie (I don't mean to title drop, but I think it's important that technical support know that I know my stuff) I'm an electrical engineer (The graduate type) and I know my IT - so I have my own idea of what's wrong with this.
Now, as my order was not completed until yesterday, techincal support couldn't/wouldn't help until today. Yesterday, however, I spent hours trying to solve my issues and got as far semi-solving the problem. I managed to get everything working nicely together when Wireless N is disabled and only a/b/g is enabled. Great, but a main selling point is the Wireless N and I want to use this.
So, today I phoned technical support. I should also note here, and I made this perfectly clear with support, that when the WiFi starts to missbehave, the wired network still works perfectly and I have no issues with internet connectivity with any wired devices. So, clearly this is not a line fault - it's on this side, aka, the router WiFi side where the problem resides. Support decided to do a line test anyway - and of course it got the all clear. He then asked me to reset the router (Yey, again after I had done it plenty of times before, only this time I had customised the SSID and the LAN IP addresses and now they need done again). He then went on to state that I should receive an e-mail with instructions on what to do next, and if they are still issues to reply to a text message that will be sent.
Duly, an email arrived. It began with "Sorry you had to call us today about your wireless disconnecting. We’re pleased we could help you get it working again." and continued on with with this theme. No, my problem is not resolved! I phoned back, this time advising me to change channels, and check individual devices to see if they're any conflicts - I did this pretty quickly and disabled and re-enabled WiFi on my Laptop, phone, ipod and still to no avail.
I have now been told that I will get a phone call between 3 and 3:30pm to see if the WiFi will settle down. huh!
I don't mean to be such a pain and sound like such a git, but this is not an issue that I believe the technical support (via the call centre anyway) will be able to solve. This is an issue with the HH3, mine at least, not being able to handle mutiple WiFi devices conntected simualtaneously - all but one on N, the other on G. Now, I'm of the understanding that this shouldn't be a problem. I'm sick of telephone support going through their script without listening to the whole issue either or beleiving that I spent a good 2 hours yesterday getting to the bottom of this. I don't need line tests, I don't need resetting the router, I don't need changing channels - I've did all this!
So it looks as though I'm stuck on HH3 in 'G' for now until we solve this issue.
Further information: I'm using the type A HH3; again wired devices are not impacted in any way from this issue; I have tried multiple different channels; YES! I've reset the router and power cycled it; And this issue happens wether my WiFi devices are 1 meter away from the HH3 or 15 meters away.
Could this be a bad HH3 or frimware issue? Can someone suggest something or highlight something that I've perhaps overlooked or missed?

This is only a customer to custome help forum.
This link may help, although some of the things you may have already tried.
Wireless can prove quite unreliable, and an separate wireless access point can help.
Wireless connection problems
There are some useful help pages here, for BT Broadband customers only, on my personal website.
BT Broadband customers - help with broadband, WiFi, networking, e-mail and phones.

Is anyone else having email problems such as apps exiting in the middle of an email? It may be a wireless issue. I use First Class for work and yahoo email for personal. I will be in the middle of typing a long email and the app just quits, all data lost.

Is anyone else having email problems such as apps exiting in the middle of an email? It may be a wireless issue. I use First Class for work and yahoo email for personal. I will be in the middle of typing a long email and the app just quits, all data lost.

Have you tried restarting or resetting your iPad?
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I have had wireless issues sense Leapord, any fixes yet? its a shame that my wife has to sit in front of our 27 inch imac on a $300 Windows computer to use the web effectively. I have tried all fixes and some work while others don't but all temporary

This Lion wireless issue has become more than just an irritation, so much so, my wife has resorted to sitting in front of a 27 inch imac with a 300 dollar Walmart Windows computer to get the bills paid and use the web. And yes, there is not a fix out there I haven't tried over the last year or so, some worked and some didn't, but all were temporary at best. Same issue with my Macair, I wonder if its a hardware issue, like the video card in my 2006 MBP, it went out after the warrenty and then I found out there was a calss action suit going on over it, unfortunately Apple wouldn't cover it and wanted 7oo bucks to fix it, sold that as parts.
While i really like me Macs, I own three, I may have to bow out and stick with LINUX, that has yet to let me down, anyone know if Mountain will fix this issue? or are we all just waiting for defective WiFi cards to fail at our own expense, PS, got three Macs for sale.

Sounds like you're getting kernel panics, which are usually, but not always, caused by hardware problems, with memory being one of the regular culprits.
First thing I would do is to get our your original OS X disks, insert the first one (should say 'AHT version x.x' in small print on the label - if not, find the one that does), and reboot holding the Alt key down. Choose the Apple hardware test, and when prompted, choose the extended test. If you have either of the TechTool programs, they can do similar testing. Does that identify any hardware issues?
Next, I'd download rember from http://www.kelleycomputing.net/rember/ . This is a memory testing program that you can set to run overnight. Does it come up with any errors? If so, try resetting your memory card(s) by removing and putting back into the computer. Rerun memory test.
This FAQ will provide other details: http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/kernelpanics.html

Wireless mouse and Keyboard Issue after closing the lid - external display

Can anyone give any insight. Recent purchase of a new Late 2008 15" MBP. I have connected it to an external 24" Apple monitor on my desk and use a wireless mouse and wireless keyboard on my desk top. I have configured the laptop to wake on bluetooth devices. So here is the problem: The laptop when the lid is up recognizes the bluetooth keyboard and mouse. I close the lid/screen. Laptop powers down... the after several seconds I move the mouse and the laptop comes alive... But after that there are no bluetooth devices attached. When I use the mouse, I get "connection lost" with a white figure of the mighty mouse on the screen. The wireless keyboard is not there and I have to open the lid and manually find the mouse and reconnect. The keyboard seems to work however....
Apple..... any thoughts..... anyone?????

Hi Stentdoc; I'm thinking, 'connection lost ~= sorta low AA batteries in the Mighty Mouse? (I would put in fresh AA batteries in the mouse and keyboard, to eliminate as an issue that the 'connection lost' is due to low batt voltage; that this is causing the failure to wake.) ... then, in System Preferences > Hardware > Energy Saver, settings for Power Adapter > Sleep, set to "never" for "Put the computer to sleep when it is inactive for ..." to eliminate that as a conflict when trying to wake with bluetooth from sleep induced by closing the lid ...
Check your current "Sleep" setup (I left my MBP as "3")
go to Utilities > Terminal
After you launch Terminal, the first step is to determine which sleep mode your Mac is currently using. You can both view and change the sleep mode using the Unix program pmset. To see your current settings, type (or, copy and paste)
pmset -g | grep hibernatemode
press 'enter'
You should see something like this:
$ pmset -g | grep hibernatemode
hibernatemode 3
So your machine is using mode 3 ... thanks to the documentation for the handy Deep Sleep Dashboard widget, which puts your machine immediately into hibernation mode (so you don’t have to yank all the power sources to invoke it):
* 0 - Old style sleep mode, with RAM powered on while sleeping, safe sleep disabled, and super-fast wake.
* 1 - Hibernation mode, with RAM contents written to disk, system totally shut down while “sleeping,” and slower wake up, due to reading the contents of RAM off the hard drive.
* 3 - The default mode on machines introduced since about fall 2005. RAM is powered on while sleeping, but RAM contents are also written to disk before sleeping. In the event of total power loss, the system enters hibernation mode automatically.
also, I enabled this (to change back, input "lidwake 1":
go to Utilities > Terminal
type in sudo pmset lidwake 0 then "enter"
it will ask for your password. type it in, that's it!
Now, when your computer is sleeping with the lid closed, when you open the lid nothing happens until you press any key ... nice: keeps it off when accidentally opened, like in a backpack?
WARNING: Improper use of the sudo command could lead to data loss
or the deletion of important system files. Please double-check your
typing when using sudo. Type "man sudo" for more information.
To proceed, enter your password, or type Ctrl-C to abort.

WRT310N v1 and MacBook Pro wireless issues

Hi all,
I've been having ongoing wireless issues with my WRT310N v1. I have a macbook pro (early 2009) with mac os 10.5.8. I have cable internet, with a DHCP connection. I have a computer and PS3 hardwired through the router, and they work flawlessly. The wireless, however, has never been what it should be. Internet loads slow, even though the connection speed is pretty good (not as fast as hardwired devices, but close).
Here are the wireless settings:
wireless config: manual
network mode: mixed (the Macbook can get wireless-n, by iPhone is only g)
Radio band: standard 20 mhZ
wide channel: 9 (can't change this with this config, unless i go wide channel at 40 mhZ)
standard channel: 11
SSID broadcast: enabled
I've got WPA2 security, with AES encryption. I've set the Beacon interval to 75, and left the Fragmentation and RTS thresholds at default. The firewall is activated, and "filter anonymous internet requests" is disabled.I'm wondering if I'm losing so much speed by broadcasting a mixed signal, instead of just G or just N. I've tried transmitting only in Wireless-N, but there's no noticeable change (and the iPhone can't connect at all).
Any input at all would be really appreciated. I'm hoping I don't have to fork over $30 to linksys just to get tech support. Thanks in advance.
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Well its not necessary to power cycle your router everytime whenever you make any changes on your Router. But if you re-configure all the settings on your from scratch, then its better to power cycle your router.

Can't restore my iPhone 3gs. Tried 4 different Macs and 1 PC, all issue error response, mostly

can't restore my iPhone 3gs. Tried 4 different Macs and 1 PC, all issue error response, mostly errror 2001 snd the PC cited error #21. Even tried different USB cable.
It started by not turning on and it still does not unless plugged in. Then once it displayed a colorless grey screen that said "no service" and the battery symbol said 100 %. After resetting the iPhone it now is recognized as an iPhone in recovery mode.

sounds like it's time to bring your phone in for evaluation

Ive gotten 3 responses from you guys. But still no help. Can't believe it's taken this long for apple to respond to this issue and I'm very disappointed that all I did was take precaution from left to my account info and my account has been disabled since

Ive gotten 3 responses from you guys. But still no help. Can't believe it's taken this long for apple to respond to this issue and I'm very disappointed that all I did was take precaution from left to my account info and my account has been disabled since. Sad that we can't do any updates to equipment I've spent so much money in. Hope this is resolved real soon.

Who exactly are you addressing this post to? And what exactly are you posting? We are just users like you, and have no idea what you are referring to. If there is something you would like to ask - user to user - please do so. Otherwise, you are wasting your time complaining about Apple, since we are not Apple.
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If you are having WIRELESS issues with SNOW LEOPARD.. update your software

the latest osX update seems to have fixed the wireless issue with snow leopard

I never had an issues with wireless before. Still don't. What was the problem?

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