Comments on: Fix for Wireless Networks Not Recognized in Leopard

By: DaniS

DaniS — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 19:37:10 +0000

JSweeny is the best !!! This really worked.
Simply move “System Preferences application” back to original location, then delete plist files. Bravo JSweeny !

By: q

Sun, 18 Oct 2009 09:05:42 +0000

My OS 10.5.8 is able to save my preferred (default) network but it is not able to find my closed (not broadcast) network. Only if network is broadcast does it find it. Any help for this issue? Thanks.

By: q

Sun, 18 Oct 2009 09:05:08 +0000

By: Bill Pepper

Bill Pepper — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 10:32:30 +0000

Re: “I have a netgear running wpa2 personal. My leopard will not connect to it with out running through the diagnostics. after that is doe, I can connect fine until I shut off the wifi and turn it back on, then im back to not being able to connect.”

Did you ever find a solution? I have the same problem in Leopard and Snow Leopard.

By: genericfish

genericfish — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 00:05:31 +0000

Sadly this fix did not work having same issue.

Mac will not connect to WPA Enterprise, won’t grab an IP or certificate

By: HShelper

HShelper — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 02:01:55 +0000

I have been working on a wireless network with all Apple ExtremeN airbases. We have clients running 10.3x to 10.5x. Believe me, we have had all the trouble mentioned here, and have used all the methods listed. Most of the time, one of them will work. We go from one to the next until we have success.
Now I will offer a new one to you. I have had cases where I cannot get the darn thing to connect. I recently spent a half-our doing everything but rebuild my MacBook. I went so long, by battery was running low. I connected my power supply, and voila!!!! I had an address and connection. I mentioned this the next day to a peer that was having trouble, and it worked for him as well. This occurance is typically when we move from one network, or airbase, to another. I hope this helps.

By: Pirho

Pirho — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 12:34:08 +0000

I have a similar issue, I have a netgear running wpa2 personal. My leopard will not connect to it with out running through the diagnostics. after that is doe, I can connect fine until I shut off the wifi and turn it back on, then im back to not being able to connect. I did notice that when I choose to remember the network it incorrectly listed the network type as wpa2-enterprise, instead of it being wpa2-personal.

I wiped and reloaded the macbook and tried again to reload it, and got the same issue. It just returns an error saying that “there was an error connecting to x” (x being my ssid). This is very annoying, and Apple has been of no help to me in this matter at all. funny thing is my macbook that is running tiger has no problem connecting to it. I ran a repair on the keychain that has the wpa key in it but it said that no errors were found. I can connect fine to open networks but I shouldn’t have to change my enryption just to get the thing to connect.

Has anyone found a resolution for this?

By: CKK

CKK — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 18:35:56 +0000

Thanks a lot JSweeney! It worked! I was almost at the point of moving back to 10.4

Fingers crossed new updates to the OS doesn’t break this….

By: brandon

brandon — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 21:44:43 +0000

#23 Worked!!!

thank you SOOOO much JSweeny!!!

By: Adam Burstein

Adam Burstein — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 03:55:07 +0000

JSweeney… You rock!!! You should let Apple in on this little secret, because my case is still open with them. Thanks so much!!!!!