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Hi all. I'm running Snow Leopard 10.6.8 and am having a problem with the Airport. I'm connected to the internet through a physical ethernet cable, and I use my Airport to provide a Dell laptop (running Windows 7) with internet access.
The Airport status on the Apple menu bar is a pie shaped icon (or a 1/4 of a circle), which, depending on it's current state has one of four different graphics: a "blank pie" (airport off), a "pie with 4 smaller to larger curved lines" (airport on, no network selected), a "dark gray pie with a computer in the middle", and finally a "pie with an arrow in the middle". Sorry for the layman terminology, but I don't know the technical terms. Most of you will know what I'm talking about.
The one that I need to be active for my laptop to access the internet is the "pie with an arrow in the middle". When this is on, I have absolutely no problems providing other devices, such as my laptop, or my Blackberry, with internet access. However, every once in a while, this icon magically changes to one of the other states (pie with computer/pie with bars) and I cannot access the internet from other wireless devices.
I don't know what causes it, and I don't know how to fix it. I have tried many ways, and I have searched Google for a few hours. The few times it's happenes, I managed to somehow solve it, but I don't remember how.
Does anybody here know how to solve this issue?
The Airport status on the Apple menu bar is a pie shaped icon (or a 1/4 of a circle), which, depending on it's current state has one of four different graphics: a "blank pie" (airport off), a "pie with 4 smaller to larger curved lines" (airport on, no network selected), a "dark gray pie with a computer in the middle", and finally a "pie with an arrow in the middle". Sorry for the layman terminology, but I don't know the technical terms. Most of you will know what I'm talking about.
The one that I need to be active for my laptop to access the internet is the "pie with an arrow in the middle". When this is on, I have absolutely no problems providing other devices, such as my laptop, or my Blackberry, with internet access. However, every once in a while, this icon magically changes to one of the other states (pie with computer/pie with bars) and I cannot access the internet from other wireless devices.
I don't know what causes it, and I don't know how to fix it. I have tried many ways, and I have searched Google for a few hours. The few times it's happenes, I managed to somehow solve it, but I don't remember how.
Does anybody here know how to solve this issue?
