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10.4: Reclaim 'Automatic' AirPort network selection
Authored by: jchunkins on Jul 14, '05 12:51:46AM

While everyone is trying for a painless solution, I went for the hard one. :)

I tried some of the items suggested here and they did not work for me. So my solution was to go into /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/ and delete the following items...

com.apple.airport.preferences.plist
NetworkInterfaces.plist
preferences.plist
preferences.plist.system_default

This is pretty brute force, since it is going to remove your past airport connections list, and everything in your network settings (locations, network port configurations, IP addresses, etc). After deleting these files (you have to authenticate to put them in the trash) and restarting, I had to select the "network port configurations" menu item from the show menu in the network preferences and drag the airport connection to the top of the list. Doing this forces the "Network Status" area to show the available port configurations and their corresponding status (the network status did not show anything initially otherwise since the .plist file that contained the information had not been recreated yet).

I am not sure it was necessary to dump the preferences.plist.system_default file, but there seems to be no harm in doing it. Obviously you can keep backups of the files if you want to, but each of these files (with the exception of preferences.plist.system_default) is automatically rebuilt when you make the settings changes I described above.

Like I said, this is harder but it should provide a remedy for those who have stubborn issues and want to start from scratch without reinstalling the whole OS.

Good luck!



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10.4: Reclaim 'Automatic' AirPort network selection
Authored by: joab on Sep 26, '05 04:16:02AM

Thanks! This was the only way that worked for my powerbook. Tried the others but nothing happened. Now it automatically connects. Wonderful :)



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