This is off list topic, but I have seen weirdness in airport cards on macs especially when connecting to Apple's Airport. A cheap fix is to buy a 2nd wireless access point and make sure to use that in bridged mode so it is not acting as a router and wire that to your airport base station. I like said before trying using an external hard drive to install CentOS onto and try your wireless card and other hardware drivers. This is a free solution except for the cost of the hard drive. -Jeff On Nov 15, 2010, at 9:29 AM, James B. Byrne wrote: > > On Mon, November 15, 2010 11:44, Les Mikesell wrote: > >> >> Can't help directly with the hardware questions, but (a) if you are >> still within your Applecare coverage, take the thing in and get >> anything that doesn't work fixed before touching the OS, and (b) >> you might try Virtualbox with Centos as a guest (or VMware if you >> don't mind paying for it). I've generally found the vendor- >> supplied native video, sleep, and wireless tools work best on >> laptops and virtual machines work well enough for the client-type >> things I do under Centos. > > Well, I have done the Apple support thing and Apple's official > position is that I have an interference problem. The fact that I > have six other laptops plus two X-Boxes, all with wireless > connections, in the same household and none of which exhibit the > problems that I have with the Macbook, is quite beside the point > insofar as the Apple Genii are concerned. > > This to me is utter BS, since I can see in the log files that that > the wireless driver is arbitrarily disconnecting the link due to > "lack of activity" and then choking when trying to reconnect. There > are a host of other odd little symptoms that also lead me to believe > that it is the Apple drivers that are at the root of the problem. > For one thing, a frequent occurrence is that I get a 'browser is > offline' (in both Safari and Firefox) when opening a new tab, but > the existing tabs in the same browser instance can visit new pages > on existing connections!!?? How that works is beyond me but it > happens, often. > > And it is the wireless NIC that I most need fixed. Right now I have > to shut down the Airport and restart it to clear the problems. In > itself this is no big deal, but I am just so tried of having to do > this with such an expensive piece of kit. > > If CentOS does not support the wireless in the Macbook then I am > stuck with the sucker until I get up enough gumption to buy a > Toshiba. Which is what I should have done when I allowed myself to > be talked into the HP to begin with. > > -- > *** E-Mail is NOT a SECURE channel *** > James B. Byrne mailto:ByrneJB at Harte-Lyne.ca > Harte & Lyne Limited http://www.harte-lyne.ca > 9 Brockley Drive vox: +1 905 561 1241 > Hamilton, Ontario fax: +1 905 561 0757 > Canada L8E 3C3 > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos