Airport connection / sleep issue

jonpb

Registered
Hello,

Here's the skinny: When my iMac G5 goes to sleep and is awakened, the airport connection is fine -I don't even need to manually select it. However, when I Manually sleep the machine, (apple/sleep), and wake the machine I have *no* connection at all. In fact, I can't even see my network when I launch network admin util. Shutting down and turning back on, even restarting, do not work. If I let the machine go back to sleep on its own, then wake it, my connection is back.

Weird. Was wondering if anyone else had a similar issue.

Thanks,
 

wandering-eye

Registered
Since I upgraded my PB15 to 10.3.9 a similiar thing has been happening to me: when I close the lid to sleep the 'book, it loses the airport connection. When I wake it up airport is on but no signal is detected. I've found that I can re-establish the connection by turning airport off and then on again, but this is a pain.

Can anyone help with this?
 

jonpb

Registered
One other thing: It has my network listed in the airport drop-down, but when I select it it prompts me for a password. I enter it but it says it can't connect due to an error. Also, it isn't showing up in the airport admin utility. This only happens when I manually sleep the computer. It 'fixes' itself when it goes back to sleep on its own and is woken up.
 

doemel

Mac addict since 1993
Do a search around the forums, there's plenty of people having issues with Airport under Tiger. Apple "imworsed" something with the 10.4 upgrade and I believe there's quite a few here eagerly awaiting a fix from Apple.
 

doemel

Mac addict since 1993
OK, a few days after going back to Ethernet I decided to give Airport another chance. To my surprise, the Airport connection has been stable for a few days now even though I haven't changed anything since last time I used it. This is all a bit weird but I won't complain :D
 

fryke

Moderator
Staff member
Mod
Apple's fixing this issue with 10.4.2 according to the seed notes. For those who still have the problem, it should be solved by this next update.
 

doemel

Mac addict since 1993
fryke, you da man! i was hoping for that info for a long time. i still don't really trust my new found airport stability yet...

wie öi immer, es fetts merci!
 
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