Macbook And 2wire Success At Last!!!
 

I was having a devil of a time connecting my new macbook (when booting to Windows XP) to my 2wire router!!! i read all the forums and had no success. FINALLY, i realized that the Atheros card that apple used in the macbook might have software!! i downloaded the software and it now connects to an encrypted (WEP) network, which is the only thing that the 2wire box provides. anyway... 2 days of head scratching over. hope this helps.
my driver for the Atheros AR5800 was here: http://drivers.softpedia.com/progDow...oad-23460.html

Make sure you have the latest boot camp drivers installed. I think the latest release is bootcamp 1.3. That solved problem to me!
A really crazy think is that now when I lose conection because the router is turn off (or reset) on Mac side, I can get inside the windows side and connect to the network, I go back to mac side and it is working again.

If you have 1.3 drivers on your windows side, and it is not working try to check the advanced settings of your connection of your 2wire acces point (on windows) there is a place that says something about wep encription and it says "this computer receives the key" or something like that, I dont have in my mind how it goes, un-check that box. The point is that you should write the password of your wireless connection there and that's all. Some times it will say that you are not connected but you will be able to surf the web.
I really hope that the final version of bootcamp that is coming with Leopard wont have this kind of problems.
good luck!

This driver comes with the bootcamp drivers. At least it should come.
Tell me if your connection in Windows is completely normal, not like mine that says not connected and Im connected checking web pages, and chating with friends.

The only thing that worked for me was to disable the b/g mode and go with G only. Magically, it connects every time and I have had no issues downloading the 10.4.10 update or Pro Tools (190 MB).

J

Shame on you Apple you made me lose so much time ...
After a power outage nothing worked (WPA, 20 characters, whatever, now I have August 10th 2007 Airport update, 10.4.10, N.O.T.H.I.N.G).

I also tried to upload a new firmware (looking for the binaries on the net made my day, one more time), but the rooter webpage got stuck
The fix for me was to go to Frys and buy a NETGEAR wireless rooter that I plugged on my 2Wire rooter.

I love Macs but I'd like to see the poor PC guy knock at the Mac guy next time there is an add, asking him about wireless :)

I too followed the advice of mkoreiwo (below) last spring and it worked great. Now my problem is, I CAN'T REMEMBER MY PASSWORD!!! My husband got a new iPod video and it requires our password in order for him to access our home DSL. Anyone know where this might be found if I didn't save it somewhere?

You're passwords are stored in Keychain Access, located in your Utilities (/Applications/Utilities/Keychain Access) folder. On your Mac that already knows the password, open Keychain Access and enter the network name in the search field in the upper right of the window. This should locate it for you.

Thank you so much! I'm at work now and found it on this computer, so I will locate it tonight at home and hopefully it will work. Thanks.

This One Works
 

Hi PLEASE read this - I want to save you a lot of headache. I read through page after page in this forum and tried everything unsuccessfully. I have:

MacBook Pro, 2wire 1800HG, Firmware 3.7.1

IT LOOKS LIKE MAC SAVED MY WEP KEY THE FIRST TIME I TYPED IT (without the $) AND THEN DISREGARDED ANYTHING ELSE AFTER THAT.

Delete all you preferred networks and then connect again using $ before your password.

This sounds trivial, but I tried EVERYTHING ELSE and THIS IS WHAT FIXED MY PROBLEM. - it was all a matter of password caching (and I hadn't even saved it to my keychain)

Also changed to channel 7 and then back to the originaly set 6.

hey..
i have a better solution
even if you use WEP without $ at the front of password...
you can use Devicescape Connect
it's a software to help you connect to wifi

i have problem with it the first time.. but after that.. it works flawlessly
everytime i reboot my macbook... the devicescape icon appears before the wifi icon appears... devicescape connects successfully even before the wifi icon appears...

that's great.. no longer have to set my router/modem to open access

thanks.
 

the $ worked as you probably already know but thank you. it only took 6 months to figure out.

This one worked for me on my new (April 2008) 2.4 Core Duo / Leopard Os X 10.5.2 Macbook.
This is a very annoing issue on new Macs.. I'm still having the same problem on many hotspots I used to connect..

I have begun having multiple wireless issues with both my Macbook Pro and my iPhone lately, and I suspect it may be Apple software related, not my 2wire.

At hope I have WPA set up as my security. At work we have an open public network. From what I can discern, the airport s/w in my MacBook is not releasing the ip address when I go from work to home. Sometimes the reverse happens as well. The fix - this works all the time - is to restart my router. Turning off and on the airport does not work. The same symptoms occur when using my iPhone.

When connected at home, I often experience drops, and the signal is fine. When that happens restarting the airport in my MacBook usually works.

I've been very annoyed with this and have been tempted to go out and get a separate wireless router and just use the 2wire as a dsl modem, but there appear to be quite a few wireless issues with 5.2, so I am patiently waiting.

Since I've never had issues before recent software updates, I'm pinning this one on Apple.

If anyone has a solution - I sure as heck would like to hear it!

Thanks!!

I'm not sure if this is confined to 2Wire routers. I've got a Netcomm router and I can't connect to it from my Macbook pro if I use WPA security. I get Invalid Password error. I've changed the password on the routers wireless settings to be triple sure. I've turned in off and on, I've deleted all keychain entries. I just wont work. It's seems we aren't alone in this frustration. There's a massive thread at Apple discussions talking about WPA on Macbook Pros specifically.

Yeah, I visited the Apple discussions as well. I really hope this gets sorted out with the next update. It really seems to be a chaotic sort of problem, and not universally experienced. It does - as well - appear to be happening with Airport routers as well, so again it seems to be in Apple's court!

hmmmmm you know whats funny, is with all those commercials ive seen. I thought macs were just supposed to work outta the box :p
but all kidding aside troubleshooting WLAN issues are a PITA.
hopefully apple will release a fix sometime soon :D


darkdragon

...yeah... that's how they get ya... Mine worked for a long time out of the box..... It's those darn upgrades!

I have the same problem with connecting my mac to my 2wire router wireless network.... except my network does not require a password to connect. I am not sure what to do....