clmensch Posted August 12, 2009 Share Posted August 12, 2009 I took a plane the other day, so I turned off wifi (a Broadcom BCM94312HMG) on my HP Mini 1000 for "airplane mode" via the Airport icon in the menubar and not the hardware switch. However, when I got to the hotel I was unable to turn it back on via software or the hardware switch. I happened to have a usb stick that has a basic OSX image on it, so I booted from that and the wireless card seems to work fine. Somehow turning it off in software killed it. When I try to turn it back on, I get a permanent spinning beachball when I mouseover the network icon in the menubar. I've checked system.log, and I get this when I attempt to turn it back on in software Error: get APPLE80211_IOC_POWERSAVE failed, -4 (Operation not supported) I have no idea what that refers to, though. If I use the hardware switch to turn it back on, I get this as well: [InterruptReadHandler] Received kIODeviceNotResponding error - retrying: 1. Interestingly, the blue wireless status LED stays illuminated when I boot even though the wireless card is down. However, I think that's because bluetooth is up...when I use the hardware switch I get a log message that it shut down and the LED turns orange. (And comes back blue when I use the switch again.) Any ideas how/why OSX thinks the wireless card is to be down at boot? The boot log says: Airport: Link Down on en0 Unfortunately, a "ifconfig en0 up" command tells me the interface is up, but that does no good. Thoughts? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/179531-wifi-wont-turn-on-after-being-turned-off-in-software/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
clmensch Posted August 13, 2009 Author Share Posted August 13, 2009 Nevermind, it's an OSX thing. This thread explains how to fix it. Sorry! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/179531-wifi-wont-turn-on-after-being-turned-off-in-software/#findComment-1224476 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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