{"id":622,"date":"2021-10-06T13:45:03","date_gmt":"2021-10-06T13:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robinplomp.com\/?p=622"},"modified":"2022-01-12T14:01:17","modified_gmt":"2022-01-12T14:01:17","slug":"no-wifi-card-found-on-your-macbook-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robinplomp.com\/?p=622","title":{"rendered":"No WIFI card found on your MacBook air"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/robinplomp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/MacOSLogo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"MacOSLogo\" style=\"float: left; display: inline; background-image: none;\" alt=\"MacOSLogo\" src=\"https:\/\/robinplomp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/MacOSLogo_thumb.jpg\" width=\"178\" height=\"97\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\"><\/a>My daughter has a MacBook Air, she is using it for schoolwork, gaming and watching Netflix.<\/p>\n<p>She came to me because her MacBook Air was no longer able to access the WIFI network. I noticed that the WIFI card was no longer visible under <strong>System Preferences&gt;Network&gt;WIFI<\/strong><br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nAt first I tried to reenable the WIFI card via a Terminal Session but the card was not visible via the Terminal session.<\/p>\n<p>Next suggestion was to reset the NVRAM (nonvolatile random-access memory), this is a small amount of memory that your MacBook uses to store certain settings and access them quickly.<\/p>\n<p>Settings that are stored in NVRAM include sound volume, display resolution, startup disk selection, time zone, and recent kernel panic information.<\/p>\n<p>To reset the NVRAM of your MacBook you need to shut down your MacBook, then turn it on and immediately press and hold these four keys together: Option, Command, P, and R. You can release the keys after about 20 seconds, during which your Mac might appear to restart.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/robinplomp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/YwULPMmt1FpQ5ZGe.medium.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"YwULPMmt1FpQ5ZGe.medium\" style=\"display: inline; background-image: none;\" alt=\"YwULPMmt1FpQ5ZGe.medium\" src=\"https:\/\/robinplomp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/YwULPMmt1FpQ5ZGe.medium_thumb.jpg\" width=\"436\" height=\"328\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When her MacBook had finished booting up the WIFI was available again and connected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My daughter has a MacBook Air, she is using it for schoolwork, gaming and watching Netflix. She came to me because her MacBook Air was no longer able to access the WIFI network. I noticed that the WIFI card was no longer visible under System Preferences&gt;Network&gt;WIFI<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[49,50],"class_list":["post-622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mac-os","tag-no-wifi","tag-reset-nvram"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robinplomp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robinplomp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robinplomp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robinplomp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robinplomp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=622"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/robinplomp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":710,"href":"https:\/\/robinplomp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622\/revisions\/710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robinplomp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robinplomp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robinplomp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}