Fontastic

Damn, this is annoying.

For some reason my Macbook is incapable of correctly storing the password for my FON access point. If I add it in System Preferences as a preferred network, it doesn’t connect correctly and looking at the console I see:

2007-02-24 12:56:31.789 AirPortCfgTool[8785] Error: SecKeychainFindGenericPassword err= -25294 ( =0xffff9d32, secErrStr=The specified keychain could not be found. ) (current= MyPlace)

and

Feb 24 13:03:32 Behemoth /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Apple80211.framework/Resources/airport: Error: WirelessAssociate2() = 88001008 for network MyPlace. The connection failed due to a wrong password.

… but if I select “Other…” from the drop-down Airport menu and enter the details there, it works just fine.

Some screwed up config file somewhere?

In the end I worked round it by renaming the Access Point in the Fon router’s configuration.

And it’s not just the Fon router, by the way. I’ve been seeing similar problems with connections to the office network recently. You can bet I know the 10 digit pass keys off by heart by now.

This is yet another time when I wish I could slap Apple for all their “it just works” gloating. This is the level of tedious muppetry that I’d expect from a Windows box.

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