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A possible fix for Internet hotspot connection failures
Authored by: roshr on Feb 05, '07 12:40:54PM

I am running version 10.4.7 on an iMac G5 on a college network. Why am I running 4.7? Because each time I've downloaded 10.4.8, I am troubled with this same problem (able to join the college's network, unable to surf, IP address won't configure---stuck at 169.something---has to be 10.150.something to work here). So I'd have to do a very lengthy "roll back" to 4.7, after much time on the phone with Apple Support.

I don't know much about wireless networking. But I do know that my college uses "802.1X" which contains my username & password. I also know that I've tried Network Diagnostics when trying to get online using 4.8. It obviously never worked for me.

Here's the deal. Even using 4.7, which is perfectly stable on my network right now, when I run Network Diagnostics (even though my network is fine), it selects my AirPort Network but says "Network Change Detected: Your network configuration has changed. Click OK to proceed to the next step" which the next step asks for my WEP Wireless Security Password. So on 4.7 I have to exit the process and reconnect to the AirPort Network, but this doesn't happen on 4.8.

This is the stumper -- I've gotten my college's tech dept to help me, and it turns out there is no WEP... our information is in the 802.1X configuration. So how am I to get the router to give me an IP address when I can't complete Network Diagnostics?

This has been going on since October or November, i think... The second or third time I tried installing 4.8, it gained the correct IP address after like 45 minutes of being turned on, but lost the IP address after being put to sleep (and could not regain it). Very confusing, because other students with MacBooks (i'm unaware of anyone in my dorm with an iMac) are perfectly fine. And when I took my iMac to Tech Services across campus, it connected immediately there!



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A possible fix for Internet hotspot connection failures
Authored by: mystery-man on Feb 05, '07 01:02:39PM

I have the same problem on my college... since last update (airport update)

I cannot reset the router, and the connection is not WEP , is 802.1X... damn certificates!

I don't know waht to do... my friend has a MacBook and his connection works perfectly... WTF!, I have a MBP core duo (he has a core 2 duo... it must be that :s )

please, any tip or advice is welcome... in home, mi WPA personalo connecticon works, so, i dont knowwhy the college wife sucks so much!! (it works for a round 20 min, then the DHCP doesnt revalidates de IP... )



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A possible fix for Internet hotspot connection failures
Authored by: LC on Mar 29, '07 06:15:53PM

After an OS X system and/or airport client (framework/driver) update on my systems, I have found
that sometimes on the first startup after the update, it tries to join an airport wireless network,
tries to get my join password from the Keychain, asks to update the keychain, etc.
But I find that that executable called "airport" gets stuck. Therefore I am never able to join my home
network. So when this happens, I forcibly kill that "airport" process, using either Activity Monitor or using
a command-line kill. After that first run and kill, everything is fine.
This has happened from several OS X updates over the past couple of years. Hope that helps someone; Larry



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A possible fix for Internet hotspot connection failures
Authored by: LC on Mar 29, '07 06:25:54PM

I mean, when the "airport" process gets stuck, you see the
spinning beachball any time you point at the Airport pull-down
menu extra. Larry



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