[Frigidman]

Ever since I had to fiddle with my wireless router, to change its signal (it was conflicting with my wireless phone), whenever I wake my laptop, I see a error dialog of "Could not connect to the communication device". Sometimes twice, one time there were three of those!

Its driving me crazy, because most times, it interferes with my "Enter password from sleep" dialog box (it de-highlights the password field, forcing me to fumble around with the mouse and click in the field to re-focus it).

I have NEVER seen this error before. And I tried changing my router back to the signal hz it was on prior (channel 9), and that didn't help.

Anyone got any ideas? I did some googling this morning, and all I found were mentions about using modems and this problem occurring. Well, this laptop HAS NO modem lol. Its all wireless. Always has been. SO WEIRD!

Yeah, I tried to reboot, much to my chagrin. I hate rebooting my mac! lol lol.

[teflon]

Try deleting your previous networks from System Preferences.
Sys Prefs > Network > Airport, then Advanced... and it should be the first tab to pop up, showing you a list of your 'Preferred Networks". Delete everything in there. Then turn off Airport, reboot, and create a fresh connection to the router (which should be on your new channel of choice). That might do something (even if some of the steps are unnecessary).

Of course, it could always be that the signal is still being interfered with. Try waking and sleeping a few times with the phone switched off.

Also, make sure that Interference Robustness is turned on with the router, and also on your mac if you can find the option. I dont know where to find it in 10.5, so it might be on by default or something...

finally, get 802.11n and switch over to wide band 5Ghz. That should snip your connection issues in the butt.

[the Battle Cat]

teflon, on April 13th 2009, 08:20 AM, said:

That should snip your connection issues in the butt.

For details, please contact Eric5h5.

[Frigidman]

teflon, on April 13th 2009, 09:20 AM, said:

Try deleting your previous networks from System Preferences.
Sys Prefs > Network > Airport, then Advanced... and it should be the first tab to pop up, showing you a list of your 'Preferred Networks". Delete everything in there. Then turn off Airport, reboot, and create a fresh connection to the router (which should be on your new channel of choice). That might do something (even if some of the steps are unnecessary).

Of course, it could always be that the signal is still being interfered with. Try waking and sleeping a few times with the phone switched off.

Also, make sure that Interference Robustness is turned on with the router, and also on your mac if you can find the option. I dont know where to find it in 10.5, so it might be on by default or something...

finally, get 802.11n and switch over to wide band 5Ghz. That should snip your connection issues in the butt.

Well, I dont have 'problems' connecting. Its this dumb dialog box that shows up when my machine is waking up from sleep. It bugs out and interferes with my login window, then when I login, I have to click "OK" on these dumb error messages which really don't seem to be anything other than an annoyance. I look up in the corner after I login, and my wireless signal is maxed out and connected. Email is even starting to download by the time I get logged in.

So I have no idea why this dang error message keeps popping up, when clearly there is nothing wrong.

I never saw this problem for the years before the other day. I cannot understand why its all of a sudden deciding to do this lol.

And "802.11n"... well, whatever this laptop has built in, is what is going to be used. My DSL Wireless Router is supplied from my provider, so I am unable to change it (it has some hard-chip that logs into the network, so I can't just use any ole brand). But, like I said, never had a problem before. Even had the phone for years as well. Just one day, when the phone rang, my wireless would drop out. So, I changed the signal frequency on the router, temporarily fussed with disabling broadcast SSID, and now all this problem occurred. Speaking of which, I turned back ON broadcast SSID, because with it off, my laptop just decided never to reconnect since it wasn't seeing the name (despite I had manually entered the router name to connect too).

Hrm.

I have nothing listed in "Preferred Networks" (under advanced for airport). It used to have my router listed... weird, hmm. Think its time for a full preference file purge of network stuff and start from scratch.

[teflon]

Hit that red button, and see you on the other side of the nuclear holocaust.
hope it starts working again.

[Frigidman]

Well, yesterday I did this:

Went into preferences. Network. Then clicked on everything in the left list that WASN'T Airport, and did "Disable Service". Which removed them from the listing entirely. Leaving only airport.

This morning when I woke my machine, it didn't cry about that error! However... it also didn't auto-connect to the wireless. I had to go up to the menu in the upper right corner, and select my network and then it popped on and was ok.

Well... At least the annoying error dialog is gone, but now its not auto-reconnecting airport after wake up lol.

Effen hell. This is the kind of behavior I expect from my XP box! Do I have some sort of "Virus by Proximity Influence" going on here?!?!? LOL.

[teflon]

Does the thing with not having any networks in the "preferred networks" list persist?

I reckon youre just in that 0.1% of people who has bajillions of problems.
Or maybe Tuncer sabotaged your MBP before he sold it to you

[Frigidman]

teflon, on April 14th 2009, 06:15 PM, said:

Does the thing with not having any networks in the "preferred networks" list persist?

I reckon youre just in that 0.1% of people who has bajillions of problems.
Or maybe Tuncer sabotaged your MBP before he sold it to you

Hehe.

Normally things just go fine. Its when 'one' thing crops up out of the blue and starts to be a snit. Like, I never, ever, had issues with networking. Then... one day my phone rings, and I lose wireless. I shrug it off. Then later that day the phone rings, and I lose wireless again. WTF? Ok, so I change the signal hz on the router and turn off the broadcast ssid (figured why not? stupid neighboors). Well, big mistake lol.

Anyhow, the laptop appears to be behaving now. It got it out of its graw, and connects when I wake it up in the morning. No error dialogs. Go figure huh.

[teflon]

that time of the month?

[the Battle Cat]

The ides of April?

[Frigidman]

I blame the intel chip inside.