“Recently, Mac 911 has had a large number of reports from people who have suddenly found their Mac has lost track of its Wi-Fi adapter,” Glenn Fleishman writes for Macworld.
“Typical is Sarah Clark, whose daughter had intermittent Wi-Fi dropping for a morning, and then the connection failed,” Fleishman writes. “The Wi-Fi menu appeared with an X in its ‘fan,’ and when clicked showed the message ‘Wi-Fi: No hardware installed.'”
Fleishman writes, “If you see that message, something worse is afoot than a software configuration problem.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Sometimes it actually is a physical thing, like a loose antenna.
Waaaiit a minute…
Apple’s Macs can be defective? I thought they were perfect and never had any issues?
Yeah dude, didn’t you know that????
Just wait until OSpukeSierra comes out…
Turn around three times highly agitated, cuss once under your breath in the direction of Cupertino, then slap it hard. Repeat as necessary.
I’ve had two iBooks models that lost their sound output device due to faulty cables and had to be repaired.
I’m wondering if some of these Mac 911 reports involved macOS 10.12 Sierra beta. Someone at Apple has been messing around with the Wi-Fi networking software. But these bugs haven’t involved any inability to detect hardware.