[DrPhips]

I cannot reactivate my Airport card through either the dropdown in the menu-bar or through 'internet connect'. If I clock the button to 'Turn Airport On' it pauses for a sec and comes back saying the same thing.

Looking at System profiler it doesn't look like anything is wrong for the airport shows up.

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AirPort Card Information:

Wireless Card Type: AirPort Extreme
Wireless Card Locale: USA
Wireless Card Firmware Version: 3.4.4f5 (3.50.37.p4)
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This is a huge emergency and I'm outside of AppleCare hours. Have a presentation tomorrow and need my Airport to at least turn on.

[littlegreenspud]

My quick solutions:

1. Reboot
2. Repair permissions
3. Re-seat card ( mine is accessible via battery compartment)
4. Log in as a different user, if it works there is something wrong with your settings rather than system wide.


Good Luck.

[benwhanlee]

one thing you may want to check...

go to 'network' in your system preferences. go to the 'network port configurations' in the pull down options under 'show'. check to make sure the airport port checked off as active. check it if the box is empty. also, if airport is your primary means of connecting to a network or internet, move airport to the top of the list and uncheck any options you don't use often (for me, that's the internal modem). if the airport port is not active, then the computer will prevent you from being able to turn airport on...

[moodymonster]

I had something similar a little while ago, I booted from a 10.3 disk (the PB had been updated to 10.3.7/8 + firmware etc). The airport didn't work of the other disk and when I booted off the internal drive the airport wasn't coming up at all.

It recognised that it was there in the profile, but couldn't use it. I restarted etc, disk permissions, ran Onyx to wipe everything (caches etc - not the disk) and for some reason it came back. It was an unerving experience.

I don't have a solution really, but mine came back - I didn't open the computer up or anything.

Try making a new user and using that account (as suggested above), I think airport may work outside of the user preferences though. Run Onyx or similar to clear cache files - something may have become corrupted, maybe.

Not much help, sorry

[Cadaver]

Originally posted by DrPhips:
I cannot reactivate my Airport card through either the dropdown in the menu-bar or through 'internet connect'. If I clock the button to 'Turn Airport On' it pauses for a sec and comes back saying the same thing.

Looking at System profiler it doesn't look like anything is wrong for the airport shows up.

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AirPort Card Information:

Wireless Card Type: AirPort Extreme
Wireless Card Locale: USA
Wireless Card Firmware Version: 3.4.4f5 (3.50.37.p4)
------------------------------------------------

This is a huge emergency and I'm outside of AppleCare hours. Have a presentation tomorrow and need my Airport to at least turn on.

Ever get it solved??