@jpa Well, look wot the cat dragged in……. Hell, matey.
Operation “Restore internet connectivity to MacBook Pro” has concluded successfully. Booting from the latest clone made on Monday was exceptionally slow. I found one (deliberately deprecated) ext SSD installation of Mojave – which will be used to run my old software that won’t work in the successor to Mojave. This one booted quickly and could get connection, so I used it to activate SuperDuper app, using the restore feature to copy the ext SSD to the Mac’s internal drive.
I wasn’t expecting the result to work well at all, just wanted to try something different since a Time Machine restoration & an attempt at reinstallation over the internet from the Recovery Drive both failed.
All's well, though. Internet is active again
Desperation time. Commenced Time Machine backup restoration on the c MacBook Pro. At least its covered by warranty?
Nope. Didn’t work. Clones won’t connect to internet either. Have to try a Time Machine restoration most likely.
I have booted the MacBook Pro from an external drive. Now all network interfaces are recognised. Most odd. Going to try it from a clone made yesterday morning. If all is OK with that, I’ll restore from that drive. Bloody frustrating.
Really odd because weather apps on the menu bar can access my the internet for their location details.
Very suddenly my MacBook Peo is refusing to see any of its internet Access points. Won’t connect to wifi, Bluetooth or Ethernet. It was working fine then internet totally vanished. Tried sharing 3G/4G from two phones & an iPad, still nothing.