I have a MacBook that is somewhat dated (2006 I believe) that I installed snow leopard onto about a year ago. Since then I haven't been able to pick up a wifi signal. An Ethernet cable does the trick, but that defeats the purpose of having a laptop computer. Just wondering if there is an easy solution to this problem, or how difficult it is to downgrade to leopard and reformat the hard drive. Help!!!
MacBook - Why won't my wifi work?
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Hi and welcome to the forums TopSneeze.
To downgrade to Leopard will cost you a pretty dollar sum. The Leopard Install Disks are about $150 (don't take that as gospel) but will cost a lot.
Why not Upgrade to Lion ?? which will cost a great deal less. You might want to upgrade the RAM though to help your MB play with Lion better. According to MacTracker you can upgrade to 3GB RAM.
Lion cost $32 here in Australia which is a great deal less than Leopard, unless you have Leopard disks on you already.
But to answer your question, its not that difficult to downgrade, but personally i would Upgrade to Lion.
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To downgrade to Leopard will cost you a pretty dollar sum. The Leopard Install Disks are about $150 (don't take that as gospel) but will cost a lot.
Why not Upgrade to Lion ?? which will cost a great deal less. You might want to upgrade the RAM though to help your MB play with Lion better. According to MacTracker you can upgrade to 3GB RAM.
Lion cost $32 here in Australia which is a great deal less than Leopard, unless you have Leopard disks on you already.
But to answer your question, its not that difficult to downgrade, but personally i would Upgrade to Lion.
HTH
Cheers
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Further when connected with the cable, have you gone into the modem/router URL and followed the wireless setup there?
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