10.6: A fix for failure to connect to new wireless networks

Nov 04, '09 07:30:23AM

Contributed by: slferris

Snow Leopard only hintAfter upgrading from 10.5.8 to 10.6.1 on my MacBook Pro, I was unable to connect to wireless networks unless I had already connected to them running under 10.5.8. Snow Leopard would "see" the new networks, but could not connect to them.

The Genius Bar at the Apple Store helped me solve the problem. We opened Library » Preferences » SystemConfiguration, and trashed the entire contents of that folder. We also deleted all locations in System Preferences » Network, and recreated the location Automatic. Finally, we rebooted.

So far, I have been able to connect to all wireless networks that I want to using OS X 10.6.1.

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