Aug 18, '05 09:14:00AM • Contributed by: Anonymous
Well, much like may other people, ever since I upgraded to Tiger, I have had issues with the AirPort connection on my good ol' Pismo. No automatic connection whatsoever -- on bootup, restart, or wake from sleep. It was really annoying. My home wireless network (DLink WEP protected) would show up, and I could manually connect, but not without human intervention.
I finally found the complete answer: Keychain and Network Preference settings:
- In Network Preferences > AirPort, set the "By default, join:" to "Preferred network."
- In AirPort > Options..., set "If no preferred networks are found:" to "Keep looking for recent networks."
- In Utilities > Keychain Access, select your Network under Login Keychains. Check the "Show password:" box and make sure it is correct -- mine had a "0x" prefix added to it that I had to remove. Under the "Access Control" tab, select the "Allow all applications to access this item." I may be wrong, but I think this is the key to getting all of the automatic connections to work, well, automatically.
