The blog of freelance Designer & Developer, David Rice.
21 Jun 2006
So the macbook pro is an excellent piece of kit, but it seems to be plagued with a lot of problems with airport. It seems to be problems with storing / retrieving passwords from the keychain.
I noticed a couple of main issues
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With the Airport Admin Utility, if I want to administer my airport basestation (or airport express). It asks me for the password every time, even if i’ve selected Remember this password in my keychain. Hmm…
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I was using WEP Encryption and operating as a closed network. Every time I would restart or sleep the macbook, it just wouldn’t want to connect to the network.
Solving the macbook pro airport auto join problem
So using WEP was causing some funk, and when narrowed down to keychain problems, (that I didn’t really want to investigate any further) I did the following to my airport basestation
- Enabled MAC Address based Access Control
- Disabled WEP
- Deleted all keychain items matching my home network’s SSID
Bing! We’ve got auto joining airport back. Airport admin utility continues to be a pain in the ass though.
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