Massive wireless connection problems since airport client update 2009-001

Hi,
I have a brand new MacBook Unibody 2 GHz with 4 GB RAM and an OSX installation up to date. Since the update of the airport client software 2009-001 on March 4th, I have MASSIVE problems to establish a working wifi network connection.
I use as APs a D-Link 614+ with up to date router firmware, a ZyXel Wireless Lan Router 100 (some ISP bulk router from my provider) with up to date router firmware and an AVM 7170 Wireless LAN router with up to date firmware. The last one is extremly expensive and state of the wifi art.
First of all, I can not establish a stable connection to no one of my wifi routers. After entering the passphrase for WPA, an established connection fades out in 20seconds-3minutes. And trying to establish a connection lasts minutes! Mostly OS X is telling me "Out of time". But in wireshark there is in due to my research mostly no packet transfer over the en1 wifi device at all! The airport card sometimes is fooling around with me!
I tried serveral configurations with all my routers differing in encryption (Wep->Wpa->Wpa2) or TTL of the packets or whatever the router is configurable. But I could not solve this problem for me.
Wifi is like dead.... not working reliable... or not working at all.
I have also used Wireshark to get into this problem. With start of an connection with EAPOL, it lasts serveral seconds till the airport card replies to the AP. Airport should response in milli seconds.... but no!
Then DHCP handshake sometimes finishes succesfully, but the airport card turns the correct ip address into a wrong ip address.
MacBook: 0.0.0.0 to 255.255.255.0 Request "give me an ip"
AVM Router: 10.255.128.1 to 255.255.255.0 ACK "TAKE 10.255.128.25"
You would think the airport card would take the given 10.255.128.25, but no it takes 192.168.0.100 and can not establish an internet connection, OF COURSE!
What the **** is the airport client firmware doing while takeing the wrong IP adress, which is not given by the DHCP Server?
And I have also discovered, that the airport card is sending out tons of ARP requests like:
MacBook: MacBookMacAdress to Broadcast ARP "who has 10.255.128.1?" (my avm router)
AVM Router: AVMMacAddress to MacBookMacadress ARP "I am at ....."
But hey, the airport card seems not be able to understand the avm reply and requests again immediately uncountable times!
Apple, please fix your airport client software. It seems to me the parser within the firmware for packet parsing has some kind of dead locks or sth else.
This are just three hints for the firmware developers.
PLEASE FIX THAT!

I don't know if this will fix your problem or not but it fixed my airport from self assigning ip's instead of taking the proper one.
Florida dude from this thread http://forums.macosxhints.com/showthread.php?t=24540&page=5 says
"I've been having the "self assigned IP" problem now for a bit. It all started when I let the battery run down, and I've been working with it now for a couple of weeks (except it affects ethernet AS WELL as airport).
I've found a temporary workaround. Go to Security in network preferences, and select firewall. Then select "allow all incoming connections". Go back to the preference pane, and select network. After about 15-20 seconds, it DHCP should assign a good IP. Then go back and reset your firewall.
Works ok, but if your Mac goes to sleep, you need to repeat."
Give it a shot, it worked for me.

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As we didn't perform any change on our wireless infrastructure, we think it's an Airport issue.
Here a sample of Kernel Panic:
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panic(cpu 0 caller 0x001A9C68): Kernel trap at 0x008d7055, type 0=divide error, registers:
CR0: 0x8001003b, CR2: 0x00f63000, CR3: 0x01892000, CR4: 0x00000660
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EFL: 0x00010246, EIP: 0x008d7055, CS: 0x00000008, DS: 0x06d00010
Error code: 0x00000000
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0x56a37a48 : 0x12b4f3 (0x45b13c 0x56a37a7c 0x1335e4 0x0)
0x56a37a98 : 0x1a9c68 (0x464700 0x8d7055 0x0 0x463de0)
0x56a37b78 : 0x1a038d (0x56a37b90 0x2e723 0x56a37ca8 0x8d7055)
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0x56a37ca8 : 0x8dd421 (0x6ddb700 0x7af7800 0x56a37ec0 0x1)
0x56a37dc8 : 0x8ad8ab (0x6ddd800 0x7af7800 0x5275a700 0x56a37ec0)
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0x56a37fc8 : 0x1a017c (0x6cf7a00 0x0 0x1a30b5 0x80f8be0)
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com.apple.driver.AirPortBrcm43xx(362.27.0)@0x856000->0x996fff
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IO80211Family(215.1)@0x837000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.5)@0x61e000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IONetworkingFamily(1.6.1)@0x821000
BSD process name corresponding to current thread: kernel_task
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Darwin Kernel Version 9.6.0: Mon Nov 24 17:37:00 PST 2008; root:xnu-1228.9.59~1/RELEASE_I386
System model name: MacBook5,1 (Mac-F42D89C8)
What can we do to solve this ? Can we find a solution without saying to the students "+please reinstall with the archive option but avoid the Airport Client Update 2009-001+" ? We tried to downgrade the wireless kernel extension to the previous version, without success.
Thanks in advance for your help and your advices.
Best Regards

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I never update Airport because it seems every time I do, something goes a miss. Everything was perfect, no issues at all. By mistake, I did update to Airport Update 2009-02.
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I want to revert. Yes, I know, there is no way to do that.
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+ Archive and Reinstall.
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Perhaps there are some files I could extract from the package and replace on my machine?
That's my line of thought.. Any ideas are appreciated, except for the ones excluded above. Thanks
<Edited by Host>

rferrentino wrote:
Just extracting the 2009-01 pkg file only has only the IO80211Family.kext file …
If you mean AirPort Client Update 2009-001, it has much more than a single file in it. The installed IO80211Family.kext appears to be a single file, but like many items it is actually a package (a special kind of folder) containing many files.
In Finder, right-click on the installed version in /System/Library/Extensions & choose "Show package contents" to see what I mean. Likewise, you can use Pacifist to fully expand the package contents of the download & see something similar.
Just replacing this file + fixing permissions did not work.
No surprise there -- it is what my "hard way" comment alluded to. To understand why it didn't work, consider first that a package is actually a structured group of related files containing resources designed to work together as a unit. The files often have internal references to one another & other mutual dependencies in their code. Thus, you can't simply substitute one file with another from a different package -- the files won't have fully compatible resources & won't work properly as a unit.
But there is more to it than that. An installer doesn't just replace files. In fact, although the package contents of an installer & the installed package look similar, they are actually quite different. (Comparing the two as suggested above with Pacifist & Finder will show that.) You can think of an installer package as the raw ingredients of the installed package plus the recipe to make it, housekeeping instructions for tidying up beforehand & afterwards, & the resources the process requires to do all of that. (Check the "Resources" tab in Pacifist to show the resource files.)
Often there is even more to it than that. Many OS packages have mutual dependencies on one another, just as their contents do. The "family" name isn't an arbitrary one -- just as with any family there are parents & children in the IO (input/output) extension family. Mixing members of different families leads to conflicts, often ones that interfere with more than the functionality of the 'foreign' member. Apple's software update mechanism & the installers themselves are designed to prevent this mismatch; when you bypass that it is up to you to manually do everything they do if you expect everything to work together without problems.
The root of the problem? The old driver worked, the new one has issues. How much simpler could it be?
As I hope the above makes clear, it isn't as simple as it seems. You can think of the OS as a very complex machine with thousands of precision parts, each of which must be undamaged & compatible with the others. One bad part can cause problems seemingly quite unrelated to its function, making the job of finding & replacing it much less straightforward than you might imagine. And if you don't do that, the damage will spread, especially when you 'overhaul' (update) the machine with new parts but miss the bad one.
That's why you so often see the advice to reinstall the OS. In effect, that replaces the machine with a brand new one with known-good parts, sparing you the usually very tedious task of tracking down & replacing just the original bad part & any others it has damaged.
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... seems to have broken my connection. It's either that or the recent combined OS update causing my connection problem. I installed the OS update yesterday and the Airport Client Update today and at first I didn't notice any difference until tonight when it broke down. Now my computer won't find my Airport Express even when the LED- light's green. I've tried hard resetting it, reinstalling the client update, the one time it found my airport I tried to load up the previous setting which it did but still I can't go online wirelessly. At the moment I'm using the ethernet cord to access the net but that won't do in the long run, I need my wireless connection. As it is I'm starting to fear any update from Apple whatsoever because every time there's something in it that screws things up badly and especially when it comes to the Airport issue.
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Michael Gullbrandson wrote:
... seems to have broken my connection. It's either that or the recent combined OS update causing my connection problem. I installed the OS update yesterday and the Airport Client Update today and at first I didn't notice any difference until tonight when it broke down. Now my computer won't find my Airport Express even when the LED- light's green. I've tried hard resetting it, reinstalling the client update, the one time it found my airport I tried to load up the previous setting which it did but still I can't go online wirelessly.
Please, tell me there's some one with a pocketful of solutions for this. I'm pretty tired of swearing because I just did the stupid thing called updating my computer.
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