mac Question

[SkyHog]

My dad tried a mac. He has a weird issue where everytime it hibernates, it disconnects from the wifi network and won't reconnect until he reboots the router. It even gives him a message saying "please restart your access point and try again" or something.

None of his windows machines do this, nor linux. He's about to give up and return it.

Ideas?

 

[CJones]

Get rid of it and get a Ma.... oh wait....

 

[flhrci]

Did you try resetting the router back to factory defaults, if you have changed anything? That's all I can think of besides mac bashing. I will refrain from that.

David

 

[gkainz]

an uber-geek at work has been thru this and I believe worked out the culprit as a driver for the airport card or maybe airport express. (but I might be totally off base, as he dives to the deep end of the pool on everything). He has a bug logged with Apple ... I'll forward this to him and get the skinny again next week - he's on vacation this week.
He also worked thru oddities on the hibernate/sleep function and came up with some parameter settings that need to be changed to make sleep function "correctly" which only about 2% of the apple users would know, recognize or care about (and I'm not in that 2%).

 

[mikea]

For sure, you don't have to restart the access point.

Try shutting down and restarting Airport on the Mac. Go to the "fan" icon on the top right of the screen. Turn Airport Off - wait 30 seconds - Turn Airport On.

 

[SkyHog]

For sure, you don't have to restart the access point.

Try shutting down and restarting Airport on the Mac. Go to the "fan" icon on the top right of the screen. Turn Airport Off - wait 30 seconds - Turn Airport On.

That can't be the solution, is it?

 

[Bob Noel]

My dad tried a mac. He has a weird issue where everytime it hibernates, it disconnects from the wifi network and won't reconnect until he reboots the router. It even gives him a message saying "please restart your access point and try again" or something.

None of his windows machines do this, nor linux. He's about to give up and return it.

Ideas?

What are the Airport advanced settings?

What Mac?

What version of the OS?

Have the latest updates been applied? (note that I really really REALLY
dislike making troubleshooting dependent on having the latest whatever).

What router?

Are you using static IP assignment or DHCP?

 

[mikea]

That can't be the solution, is it?

That will get it to look for the access point and re-authenticate.

Hey, if it was Windows, you'd have to reboot. You know very well how well "zero config" worked(works). (You *might* have to reboot. but there some other ways to restart the interface.. i.e. ifconfig en1 down;ifconfig en1 up)