Everything had worked just fine until my wireless router waved everyone goodbye and I had to replace it. The model of the new device was slightly different, though, but it did “understand” the settings loaded from backup configuration and — voilà, my mobile devices were back online within minutes. The only thing I adjusted in the settings was disabling the SSID broadcast.
An unpleasant surprise waited for me when I turned on my MacBook Pro: it said, “None of your preferred wireless networks are available.” I didn’t believe it, of course. Every other device was proving the opposite. I tried to enter the SSID and password anew… aha! It worked! Temporary memory loss, I thought. Yawn. Total shutdown and good night.
Next morning, however, I was greeted with the same phrase again: no wireless network found. Which made me choke on my coffee. A perspective of typing rather long and complex SSID and password every time the laptop is turned on or woken up did not exactly make me happy.
In the next days, I tried to fix the problem by rebooting (all over again) all involved devices, restoring the original configuration, changing the SSID and then the password, enabling/disabling the SSID broadcast, poking a finger at LEDs, swearing and, finally, “killing” the keychain file in the laptop’s system… Nada.
Yesterday, I finally performed a long-planned upgrade of Mac OS X from 10.5.something to Snow Leopard (10.6.latest). And guess what? That’s right, this turned out to be the cure.
$ tribaldance -v -n 100 -c ":-)"
I’m still trying not to breathe while opening the lid of my MacBook Pro, but it works now, every time, it does. Don’t ask me why.
1 comment to “MacBook Forgetting Wireless Network”
Any hints as to how to get Android to connect to my home wireless network? EnergyROM on same phone working OK. Since Android looks like its running on top of the EnergyROM could EnergyROM be already connected to wireless and keeping Android from connecting?