Ok so I just got my macbook yesterday, my first Mac ever so I'd say I'm pretty new to this. I'm an advanced PC user however, so this isn't totally new to me. I noticed the Airport wireless disconnecting from my router every couple of minutes. I'd then have to turn Airport off and on, and after a bit of messing around, it would reconnect.
Now the first hour or so I had the macbook I didn't notice this problem. After I did software updates and installed 10.5.6, then I believe this is when the wireless issue came out. I have a Linksys WRT54G v2 router with the most recent Tomato firmware. My IBM and Toshiba laptops connect fine to it, as does my roommates laptop. I've never experienced any sort of disconnecting issue on that router until now. I tried different wireless security settings such as WPA, WPA2 with PEAS or TKIP, WEP, all the same results. I'm for certain it is not the router and fairly certain it is the 10.5.6 version of this OS.
So that is my wireless issue, any help for that would be greatly appreciated. I did some research on it and found a 20 page apple.com discussion thread on it, but it was just a bunch of people with the same problem and no solution. I'm hoping someone here can help out.
My second issue is my USB ports being inactive intermittently after coming out of sleep mode. Anything hooked up to my USB hub is sometimes unresponsive and would require me disconnecting the USB cable and reconnecting it. Then everything works fine. Unfortunately it doesn't do this all the time so I can't really pinpoint why it's doing this. I doubt it's the USB hub as again, it worked great on my IBM and Toshiba.
I really like this laptop but man.. these problems are ridiculous.
Now the first hour or so I had the macbook I didn't notice this problem. After I did software updates and installed 10.5.6, then I believe this is when the wireless issue came out. I have a Linksys WRT54G v2 router with the most recent Tomato firmware. My IBM and Toshiba laptops connect fine to it, as does my roommates laptop. I've never experienced any sort of disconnecting issue on that router until now. I tried different wireless security settings such as WPA, WPA2 with PEAS or TKIP, WEP, all the same results. I'm for certain it is not the router and fairly certain it is the 10.5.6 version of this OS.
So that is my wireless issue, any help for that would be greatly appreciated. I did some research on it and found a 20 page apple.com discussion thread on it, but it was just a bunch of people with the same problem and no solution. I'm hoping someone here can help out.
My second issue is my USB ports being inactive intermittently after coming out of sleep mode. Anything hooked up to my USB hub is sometimes unresponsive and would require me disconnecting the USB cable and reconnecting it. Then everything works fine. Unfortunately it doesn't do this all the time so I can't really pinpoint why it's doing this. I doubt it's the USB hub as again, it worked great on my IBM and Toshiba.
I really like this laptop but man.. these problems are ridiculous.
