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Jason - 11 Oct 2006 02:31 GMT

Hi:

A few days ago I picked up an AirPort Express base station. It works
good - most of the time. Somes times, when my MacBook wakes from sleep,
I have a renegade airport process that takes up 99.9% of the CPU. My
AirPort card worked just fine on my old 802.11b base station for weeks
with no problems. This just happend after installed the AirPort
Express base station software (from the included CDROM). I've noticed
this problem tends to happen when the MacBook has been asleep for long
periods of time; it also has trouble finding the base station and I
must select it manually.

This happens pretty regularly now. In fact it's doing it as I type
this:
1300 airport 99.0% 1:25.58 1 22 871 1.37G 624K 1.37G
2.14G

I can kill -TERM the PID and it solves the problem temporarily....

Anyone else?

System: MacBook w/ OS/X 10.4.8.

Thanks,
Jason.

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fzurell - 21 Oct 2006 23:17 GMT

Yes I got the very same problem. But I use a Linksys WRT54G Wireless
Router.
It does also appear when my MacBook wakes up at the office with no
WLAN.
Me think this is a 10.4.8 problem because it there since the update to
10.4.8.

Any solutions by now?

thanks and kind regards

Falko

> Hi:
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> Thanks,
> Jason.

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e-jem - 30 Oct 2006 10:28 GMT

I have the same problem here in Spain with my brand new iMac 20" Core 2
Duo and a Zyxel wireless router. It started to happen a few days after
being out of the box, so may be it's because a 10.4.8 problem (I did
not update software in the first moment). If I delete the airport
preferences in the system folder it works ok in the next start, but
then it goes wrong again. I called Apple support but they weren't able
to help me and I'm waiting for them to call back in some days.

Regards from Spain.

fzurell ha escrito:

> Yes I got the very same problem. But I use a Linksys WRT54G Wireless
> Router.
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> > Thanks,
> > Jason.

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Mork - 31 Oct 2006 22:07 GMT

> I have the same problem here in Spain with my brand new iMac 20" Core 2
> Duo and a Zyxel wireless router. It started to happen a few days after
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> > > Thanks,
> > > Jason.

I've had this issue with Apple Support for a few weeks now - They came
back to me today and said it is a problem caused by Checkpoint Secure
Client, which I confirmed I had installed on my machine. Removed it,
and it does indeed go away. So Checkpoint have a problem they need to
sort out.

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e-jem - 01 Nov 2006 00:15 GMT

You're right, Mork. I had the Checkpoint VPN client installed. Just
removed it and now everything's working OK.

Thank you very much

> > I have the same problem here in Spain with my brand new iMac 20" Core 2
> > Duo and a Zyxel wireless router. It started to happen a few days after
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> and it does indeed go away. So Checkpoint have a problem they need to
> sort out.

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