On Thu, 2011-03-17 at 16:51 -0700, Clmtyne wrote: > I have issues adding a airport extreme card in a Mac Emac 1.25ghz > system. I join a network and everything is fine until I restart the > system and I have to go through and add again. This is frustrating. I > know the keychain has something to do with it, but stil having > trouble. Please give me ideas on how to fix this problem. Thanks >
I've had this problem myself with a Leopard laptop. What I had to do was use a command line tool 'networksetup' to work around the problem. Go to Applications>Utilities>Terminal and open a command prompt. Type in 'networksetup -listallhardwareports'. This will generate a list of all the network adapters on your eMac. Look for the one marked "Airport" and note the device name associated with it. I think it's usually 'en1'. Go ahead and reboot. Once the machine reboots, try the following line as a test: networksetup -setairportnetwork en1 network password You'll need to substitute the device name you discovered the first time you ran networksetup for 'en1'. Likewise, substitute the name of your Airport network for 'network' and the appropriate router password. The password may or may not be necessary. If this command succesfully joins your network for you, you'll need to turn it into a script. Go to Terminal and type 'nano airport.command'. Then type in 'networksetup -setairportnetwork en1 network password', modified appropriately for your own network. Then hit CTRL-X, then Y to save the file. Next step is to add it to your Login Items so that it runs each time you boot up or login. Open Finder and navigate to your home directory (usually its listed under Places in the left hand pane of Finder as your user name.) Once there you should see airport.command file. Open up System Preferences>Accounts>Login Items and drag airport.command to the login items box. It should then run automatically at boot or login. That worked for me. I'm not sure if you'd consider it worth the effort... Eric -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
