[GLLUG] Anyone with experience with Macs and AirPort Extreme?

Michael George george at idealso.com
Mon Jun 16 07:59:36 EDT 2008


That is actually what I'm leaning towards.  I just hadn't looked into
which ones were compatible with 10.5 yet.

On Mon, June 16, 2008 7:33 am, Eduardo Cesconetto wrote:
> another solution is to use a USB wireless adapter, Blekin and DLink
> both make Mac compatible a/b/g cards
>
> On Jun 15, 2008, at 9:31 PM, Michael George wrote:
>
>> Well, what I found is that there are a lot of networking problems with
>> 10.5.  Most of what I found had to do with extremely poor performance
>> and continuously dropped connections.  One post in particular said
>> that
>> the Airport Extreme devices were no longer playing well with Cicso
>> WAPs.
>>  Whether the "cisco problem" extends into their Linksys
>> acquisitions, I
>> do not know.
>>
>> My router is working fine, and I don't have any plans to change it.
>> If
>> I had a greater need for the Mini to work I might try OpenWRT, or even
>> go back to the Linksys Firmware for the WRT54G...
>>
>> Given that the 10.4 systems and WinXP were no-effort connections, I am
>> inclined to blame Apple and I am hoping that a future update might
>> resolve the issue.
>>
>> Karl Schuttler wrote:
>>> It might be worthwhile to see if the problem exists in OpenWRT,
>>> another linux firmware for the WRT line. OpenWRT isn't tough,
>>> especially if you've done any networking in linux, but it is mostly
>>> command line (no web gui out of the box). It may be the easiest
>>> migration to make it work, if you find that others aren't running
>>> into
>>> this issue.
>>>
>>> On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 6:18 AM, Michael George
>>> <george at idealso.com> wrote:
>>>> Yes, those bastards.  This is not an isolated dd-wrt issue, it has
>>>> been
>>>> happening to many people with the Airport Extreme devices under
>>>> 10.5.
>>>> It was a problem at 10.5.1 (but not under 10.4) and still is now.
>>>> They
>>>> aren't giving it attention because they made it work with their
>>>> WAPs.
>>>> If it doesn't work with Ciscos, they don't seem to care.
>>>>
>>>> I have connected my iBook (10.4) with no hesitation.  I have
>>>> connected
>>>> Windows XP with no problem.  The software running in dd-wrt is in
>>>> very
>>>> wide use and I'm sure if there were problems with it meeting the
>>>> standards of 802.11b/g, they would get fixed.  However, Apple
>>>> adopted an
>>>> unfinished (beta) spec (802.11n) and put it into production
>>>> hardware.
>>>> Internal to the computer, no less.  When it isn't backwards
>>>> compatible
>>>> their best answer (not that they gave one) is "spend several
>>>> hundred $$
>>>> and get one of *our* WAPs".
>>>>
>>>> If you think dd-wrt is such junk, then why don't you download the
>>>> latest
>>>> linksys firmware and install it on your router?  When you do, please
>>>> tell me if your problem goes away...
>>>>
>>>> Eduardo Cesconetto wrote:
>>>>> Those bastards? I blame your crappy Open Source driven router, I
>>>>> have
>>>>> the same issue with my WRT54GL w/ DD-WRT is junk too... You get
>>>>> what u
>>>>> pay for...
>>>>>
>>>>> On Jun 14, 2008, at 9:20 PM, Michael George wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Well, no go on either of these.  I can set up an ad-hoc network
>>>>>> with my
>>>>>> iBook and an original AirPort card (802.11b?), but it keeps
>>>>>> getting
>>>>>> connection timeouts to the Linksys/dd-wrt WAP.  I am not about
>>>>>> to spend
>>>>>> $300 for a Apple WAP to connect this thing.  Those bastards make
>>>>>> incompatible hard/firmware and expect me to spend more $$ on
>>>>>> them?  No
>>>>>> way.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Sean O'Malley wrote:
>>>>>>> It doesnt really seem to be a related issue, but the early 2006
>>>>>>> minis
>>>>>>> have a firmware update for them. It is called
>>>>>>> Apple Mac mini early 2006 SMC Firmware
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> A more related fix would be:
>>>>>>> ----
>>>>>>> from http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=4993837
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Alright, so we know that after updated to 10.5.2 people were
>>>>>>> still
>>>>>>> having
>>>>>>> trouble with Airport. I was one of them, and I figured it out.
>>>>>>> Here is
>>>>>>> what I did:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 1. Navigate to Library\Preferences\SystemConfiguration
>>>>>>> 2. Locate com.apple.airport.preferences.plist
>>>>>>> 3. Drag it to trash
>>>>>>> 4. Hit the spotlight, type in "Keychain Access"
>>>>>>> a) Remove all passwords to every network
>>>>>>> *now I don't know if that's necessary, but I did it, and it
>>>>>>> worked*
>>>>>>> 5. Restart Leopard
>>>>>>> 6. Connect to a network and you should be problem free
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> By deleting com.apple.airport.preferences.plist and restarting
>>>>>>> your
>>>>>>> system, you are allowing Leopard to create the new 10.5.2 file.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> My theory is, is that the two conflicted with each other so it
>>>>>>> wasn't
>>>>>>> copied properly, and thats why some people had the problem and
>>>>>>> some
>>>>>>> didn't.
>>>>>>> ---
>>>>>>> my guess is you just need to axe the password to the airport.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> That at least lets you start the config from scratch. :)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Sean
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> -M
>>>>>>
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