Mac loving friends I’ve been intending to write this post for awhile. After some serious networking issues with Mac OS X Leopard 10.5 (after version 10.5.2) I pretty much tore out my hair trying to solve the problem. I’d go to a cafe and become extremely frustrated that I couldn’t access the wireless network.
So hours went into trawling the Internet for a solution. After installing OS X 10.5.6 the problem wasn’t solved. Apparently that patch was supposed to have fixed the problem.
As a last ditch effort I decided to re-install Mac OS X Leopard using the Archive and Install option. Using that option when re-installing means that you save all of your files and replace only the “make the computer do stuff” files. Apparently that worked because it must have fixed up some junk files from my upgrade from Mac OS X Tiger.
Note: it’s often recommended that you upgrade by doing a clean install instead of doing what I did. The files from the older version can actually interfere with the new operating system. In this case, Tiger’s networking system files were the problem.
Hopefully, Apple doesn’t make upgrading or networking as much of a problem in their Snow Leopard version. A lot of other users had problems with the networking besides myself – some of which may not have been linked with an upgrade from Tiger (or some other mysterious set of files interfering with the new operating system).
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