On my MacBook, \"there was an error\".
 

I've had my macbook for a few months now, and it's great. (I don't have to worry my pretty little head over all those complicated mouse buttons.) However, recently I've been unable to connect to any wireless networks outside of work and home. When I try at a coffee shop or a friend's house, I get the message "There was an error joining the AirPort network 'xxxxx'." (Note that Mac doesn't tell me what error, just that there was an error.)

This doesn't happen at either my home or work wifi, so it's not such a big deal; I connect fine to both those secure wireless networks, but if it's a new network (secure or insecure) I'll almost always fail. (I have connected a couple times successfully. ~20%.)

Another point that might help: recently MacStumbler has stopped working too. It used to find my card and show me all the networks around. Now it just searches and searches with no sign of recognition.

Any ideas?

Re: On my MacBook, \"there was an error\".
 

Sounds like the configuration on the wireless card changed recently. Did you make any changes to your home wifi network? I haven't seen this but my iMac will occasionally forget to go into powersaver mode... Poke around the network settings for wifi and see what happens I guess.

Re: On my MacBook, \"there was an error\".
 

Go to the apple store. They'll probably fix it quickly and tell you what was wrong.

Re: On my MacBook, \"there was an error\".
 

not this weekend...