Comments on: How to: Airport won’t activate? Try this simple fix

By: Dalton

Dalton — Fri, 24 May 2013 16:20:46 +0000

Hi. Just to share my experience with Ubuntu 12.04: bottomline, it works very well. Just one observation: do not use the STA driver that comes with Ubuntu 12.04 for Mac. That driver has the same fault as the Mac OS driver – if you suspend your computer the wifi interface stop working. Use the b43 driver and everything is alright. I’m using Ubuntu now since my last post and the problem is solved. I also got my Ubuntu 12.04 to “behave” in a similar way as OS X regarding interface (using shotwell, cheese, banshee,spacebar to open a preview of the document, gnome-open to open files from terminal etc). The feel is very close and the fact the wifi is working just fine is even better. On the bright side, the macbook is at least two times faster than with OS X Lion. Therefore, people put Ubuntu and revive your Mac. If you mount the Mac partition rw you don’t even have to migrate your files. Use them in place and save the space.

By: Jason

Jason — Fri, 24 May 2013 15:34:01 +0000

Thanks for the help! Worked like a charm.

By: Dalton

Dalton — Thu, 09 May 2013 18:29:19 +0000

Although it worked for some time, my wifi malfunctioned again. Man, I read a little and it seems Apple is dropping support for old computers (like early 2008 macbooks). This is really a shame… I’m getting to this conclusion based on a lot of info I found on the Internet, but I could hightlight this: http://wotnau.blogspot.com.br/2012/01/os-x-lion-on-older-early-2008-black-13.html and this: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3171415?start=0&tstart=0

I’ll try installing Ubuntu 12.04 on my old macbook and see if the wifi continues faulty.

Thanx!

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By: Kevin

Kevin — Wed, 01 May 2013 03:30:10 +0000

You sir, are a national treasure.

Many thanks!

By: Lauren

Lauren — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 13:08:20 +0000

I did this last night and it worked perfectly. I did it again this morning and now when I click the “+” button to add the Airport, there is no option to add the Airport. I’m even more screwed than I was before. what do I do?! Help please!!

By: Nancy Collins

Nancy Collins — Sat, 27 Apr 2013 16:03:15 +0000

This worked – thank you!

By: Janet Stewart

Janet Stewart — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 10:38:16 +0000

This worked for me – thanks!

By: Shawn howard

Shawn howard — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 01:46:01 +0000

Worked for me! Thx

By: Larissasfas

Larissasfas — Sat, 02 Mar 2013 21:33:31 +0000

This actually made things worse. Now I have no way of having AirPort work.

By: Gerallene Alcarde

Gerallene Alcarde — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 15:03:00 +0000

Thanks! It worked for me

By: Alejandro Morales

Alejandro Morales — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 16:07:28 +0000

Thanks for the info, you saved me a lot of time of research.

By: Marilene

Marilene — Mon, 24 Dec 2012 15:01:27 +0000

Lifesaving technique! Thank you, dude!

By: Ms. D

Ms. D — Sun, 02 Dec 2012 17:24:47 +0000

This is the part where I hug you until I squish out your iternal organs. My dog knocked the Macbook off the couch last night, and the airport stopped working. Just when I thought we were in for an expensive repair or even more expensive new computer, I found this and it worked!

By: SN

SN — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 05:32:30 +0000

My wife’s MacBook Air had this problem. We had it serviced under AppleCare for a display problem that required a new display module and main logic board. I had made a clone of her internal drive on an external drive so that she could boot my old MacBook Pro (now our spare computer) from it and continue working on her PhD thesis defense, which is tomorrow! When the Air came back fixed, I cloned the partition she was working from back onto the Air. After this, Airport stopped working, and could not be turned on. I was worried that I may have hosed some machine-specific system file, and that I was facing a system reinstallation. Luckily, I came across your solution, which worked!

Thanks!

By: Watson

Watson — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 22:46:28 +0000

Absolute LEDGEND! Thank you so much! I was getting so annoyed! Saviour!

By: Eliot

Eliot — Sat, 10 Nov 2012 23:19:03 +0000

Alright, cool. I got pretty scared for a minute when I couldn’t select airport back again, and even more so when I was looking at forum posts that said you had to get a new airport card. However, shutting down with the power button and turning back on did the trick. I feel so spoiled, but lucky, to be living in a house with more than one computer so I can fix this kind of problem easily.

By: Josh D

Josh D — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 16:43:54 +0000

For those that aren’t able to re-install airport:

The same happened to me. it is because the computer is not recognizing that there is an airport card installed (when you click on the airport icon in the upper right of your desk top it will say “no card installed”). I had to turn my mac book on and off 3 or 4 times before it recognized the airport card. once it recognizes there is a card it will give you the airport option when you click the “+” button in network preferences. if it still says “no card installed” after a few reboots then the card my have gone bad or it may be disconnected.

By: Kim

Kim — Sun, 28 Oct 2012 15:31:15 +0000

Thanks so much for posting this! It worked perfectly!

By: Owen

Owen — Sun, 28 Oct 2012 07:15:55 +0000

This worked!!…I was getting really annoyed and frustrated..thanks a bunch!!