Hi all,
I'm having a very odd problem with my Macbook that I was hoping someone here may have experienced and found a solution to.
Currently, my airport is on and working. It will connect to my preferred network and work fine. But this is where it gets a bit weird:
In the menu bar, the icon ALWAYS appears as the "airport on but not connected" grey bars. If I click on the icon it looks as if the airport is off - as it gives me the menu with "Airport Off: Turn Airport On" in it. Clicking this does nothing.
In Internet Connect the opposite is true. It shows the Airport as on, and displays the "Turn Airport Off" button. Clicking this (again) does nothing.
A picture tells a thousand words - so here you go. Conflicting, no?! I promise, no photoshopping was done!
I can't add new networks or change settings because as far as the menu is concerned the airport isn't on.
I've tried all I can think of to sort this out and it's still the same.
There are 2 things that have happened recently with may or may not be related to this problem:
1. Software update recently downloaded the new airport update from Apple. I know some people have reported problems with this but initially it worked perfectly after restarting, and I've seen no reports of this type of issue.
2. The problem first started when I was buriing a DVD from iDVD. No idea why. I first assumed that iDVD disabled the airport while it was burning (again - don't know why it would) but that wasn't the case.
If anyone can offer any ideas I'd really appreciate it!
Thanks,
Ed
I'm having a very odd problem with my Macbook that I was hoping someone here may have experienced and found a solution to.
Currently, my airport is on and working. It will connect to my preferred network and work fine. But this is where it gets a bit weird:
In the menu bar, the icon ALWAYS appears as the "airport on but not connected" grey bars. If I click on the icon it looks as if the airport is off - as it gives me the menu with "Airport Off: Turn Airport On" in it. Clicking this does nothing.
In Internet Connect the opposite is true. It shows the Airport as on, and displays the "Turn Airport Off" button. Clicking this (again) does nothing.
A picture tells a thousand words - so here you go. Conflicting, no?! I promise, no photoshopping was done!
I can't add new networks or change settings because as far as the menu is concerned the airport isn't on.
I've tried all I can think of to sort this out and it's still the same.
There are 2 things that have happened recently with may or may not be related to this problem:
1. Software update recently downloaded the new airport update from Apple. I know some people have reported problems with this but initially it worked perfectly after restarting, and I've seen no reports of this type of issue.
2. The problem first started when I was buriing a DVD from iDVD. No idea why. I first assumed that iDVD disabled the airport while it was burning (again - don't know why it would) but that wasn't the case.
If anyone can offer any ideas I'd really appreciate it!
Thanks,
Ed