I've seen this as well, even prior to installing Fusion. From what I've observed, the "airport" process is designed to run for a second or two, then terminate. I never have the problem at work, where there is only one wireless AP, but it happens just about every night when I start up at home with 3 APs, one of which is an Airport Extreme 802.11n. I know it's happened when I hear the fans. You can fix it immediately by clicking the airport icon on the menu bar, disable wireless, then immediately enable it again. Once stopped, it won't happen again until the next cold boot.

The problem seems to have started a couple of OS X updates back. I'd like a fix, but it's not a show-stopper.

I ran into this problem as well. What fixed it for me was going to

System Preferences->Network->Airport

and removing all of the preferred airport networks. I've moved the user accounts on my machine from one OSX box to the other for several years, and I found that I had over 20 preferred networks, must of them being networks I don't use anymore. After removing all of the preferred networks and adding in only the 3 or 4 I use currently seems to have made the issue go away.

Of course, your mileage may vary.

It's been several months since I've seen the issue.

I'm experiencing this same problem, and like other users, it only occurs when Fusion is installed. Furthermore, given that this is addressed as an Apple KB article, and that the article points to an out-of-date third-party application, it suggests to me that Apple considers this a bug that they expect that the developer must/will fix. Is there any debugging information that we as users can provide VMWare to help you address this problem?

I was having this same problem... in my experience it was a new processed named 'airport' spawned every few seconds which ate 99% of my CPU.

And uninstalling Fusion solved the problem for me. Didn't even need to reboot. That's the *only* change I made, so I'm 99% it was the solution (for me at least).

Naturally I hope VMware can resolve this, as it's a showstopper...

t.

We're chasing the problem. We've seen it on computers with and without Fusion installed, but there's evidence that Fusion exacerbates the problem. We're still looking for the underlying cause.

I am also seeing this problem. Airport seems to go up to almost 100% if the laptop has been on standby or if I have simply left it on for a long period of time (e.g. if I leave it on overnight the process is usually at 100% when I come back in the morning). I don't think this was happening at all before RC1.