Tue 3rd Jul 2007
MacBook Pro Kernel Panic WPA Enterprise
Posted in the evening, filed under Hardware.Well, I love my MacBook Pro.
Except for one little thing. If I connect to a WPA Enterprise network, and I am running on battery power, then I get a Kernel Panic. Every time, within a couple of minutes.
Plugging into power means no panic, using WPA personal (at home) also means no panic. Although, apparently the lack of panic at home may be more to do with the fact I’m running an Airport Express router. I’ll switch over to my other router (b-only, still WPA) and see if it panics then.
Apparently, Apple is aware of the problem.
I’m having the same issue, but it seems to have started when I updated to 10.4.10. I’ve tried reverting the Airport extensions to the 10.4.9 release to no effect. Do you have a URL to show Apple’s awareness of the issue?
Cheers,
Morgan.
1 week after the fact.
Yeah, I came across a couple of posts on Apple Discussion forums. I’ll see if I can still find the links.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=986785&tstart=0
1 week, 1 day after the fact.
I’m having the exact same problem. I Just bought the 2.5Ghz 15″ model. Kernal panics everytime I’m running of batteries and on a network - not sure yet if it will KP when airport is switched off but when its pluged in with Airport On there is absolutely no problem.
I hope apple really knows about this and does something quick
4 weeks after the fact.
Turning off Airport protects me from KP.
It is only certain networks - WPA/Enterprise is the one that kills me. And apparently it is only some types of APs. My Airport Extreme is fine, for instance.
4 weeks after the fact.
i bought a macbook pro in july 2007. the infamous kernel bomb occurred everytime i used airport. I had to talk to 14
“experts” at apple to finally get authorization a return. I finally got an apple techie to acknowledge the kernel issue and he stated the engineers are working on it. the customer care and sales support stuck to the apple company’s rhetoric of not accepting responsibilitty for the kernel error.
1 month after the fact.
Have you applied the recent updates? They have fixed the issues for me.
1 month after the fact.
I bought MBPro one week ago (20th December 2007), running Leopard, applied all updates and still having the kernel panic - when running on batteries and being connected via AirPort with network encryption WPA Personal (TKIP)..
5 months, 4 weeks after the fact.