Wireless won't reconnect when back in range

jkarpenske
New Contributor III

We’ve got a wireless problem that I’m hoping someone has some insight into. This has been happening for a year or two (at least since El Capitan,) but seems to be getting worse lately : When a faculty member logs into their computer when out of range of our campus wireless network (at home, for example, using cached AD credentials) and then brings their computer to campus without shutting it down, once they come into range, the computer will not connect to the wireless network. If you try to choose the network from the wireless drop-down in the title bar, the wifi icon flashes a few times like it’s trying, but then fails and offers to open the connection troubleshooter. A reboot appears to fix this. (Or going into the wireless config and removing our campus network from the “preferred networks” list - it will get put back on next boot by a Wireless SSO config profile from our Jamf server.) One suggestion I’ve found on the web is to make a logout hook that deletes the campus wireless network from the preferred/remembered list. Does anyone have any other ideas how to fix/work around this issue?

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