Airport Express - no disk :-(
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From: Howard on 26 Feb 2010 14:16 Hi all, I have an Airport Express that I bought last year and used it once. Now I cannot get it to work properly. I plugged it in and plugged in an ethernet internet cable. I don't have the original software but I used the new Airport application. First of all it wouldn't recognise any Apple wireless network. Then about five minutes later it suddenly popped up and I get in with my password. I changed the name of the network and saved it and then quit. However the Airport utility still didn't find any network. So I went to System Prefs and started Airport. It found the Express wireles network and I entered the same password as earlier. It refused access saying it needed a WEP password..... it repeated this several times... Am I missing something ? Tks... Howard
From: Phillip Walters on 27 Feb 2010 11:44 Howard <Howard.not(a)home.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > I have an Airport Express that I bought last year and used it once. > > Now I cannot get it to work properly. > > I plugged it in and plugged in an ethernet internet cable. I don't have > the original software but I used the new Airport application. > > First of all it wouldn't recognise any Apple wireless network. Then > about five minutes later it suddenly popped up and I get in with my > password. > > I changed the name of the network and saved it and then quit. > > However the Airport utility still didn't find any network. > > So I went to System Prefs and started Airport. It found the Express > wireles network and I entered the same password as earlier. It refused > access saying it needed a WEP password..... it repeated this several > times... > > Am I missing something ? > > Tks... > > Howard I solved all my recent Airport Express problems with a hard reset, push button underneath in for 5 secs I think and LED starts to blink quickly. Set it all up again and no problems since. -- Phil http://www.philwalters.co.uk http://twitter.com/philwalters
From: Howard on 27 Feb 2010 16:51 Phillip Walters <pjwalters(a)nospamdsl.pipex.com> wrote: > I solved all my recent Airport Express problems with a hard reset, push > button underneath in for 5 secs I think and LED starts to blink quickly. > Set it all up again and no problems since. Tks Phillip. Do you have to do that with the express plugged in ? H
From: David Empson on 27 Feb 2010 19:41 Howard <Howard.not(a)home.com> wrote: > Phillip Walters <pjwalters(a)nospamdsl.pipex.com> wrote: > > > I solved all my recent Airport Express problems with a hard reset, push > > button underneath in for 5 secs I think and LED starts to blink quickly. > > Set it all up again and no problems since. > > Tks Phillip. Do you have to do that with the express plugged in ? Yes. I've generally done it by holding down the button while powering on the Airport Express (easiest if it is in a switched outlet) and waiting for the light to blink rapidly before releasing the button. Re the missing disk - don't worry about it. It just includes a version of Airport Utility which is new enough to support the particular model of Airport base station. If you have sufficiently recent version of Mac OS X it will come with the same or a newer version of Airport Utility anyway. -- David Empson dempson(a)actrix.gen.nz
From: Howard on 28 Feb 2010 09:17
David Empson <dempson(a)actrix.gen.nz> wrote: > Howard <Howard.not(a)home.com> wrote: > > > Phillip Walters <pjwalters(a)nospamdsl.pipex.com> wrote: > > > > > I solved all my recent Airport Express problems with a hard reset, push > > > button underneath in for 5 secs I think and LED starts to blink quickly. > > > Set it all up again and no problems since. > > > > Tks Phillip. Do you have to do that with the express plugged in ? > > Yes. I've generally done it by holding down the button while powering on > the Airport Express (easiest if it is in a switched outlet) and waiting > for the light to blink rapidly before releasing the button. > > Re the missing disk - don't worry about it. It just includes a version > of Airport Utility which is new enough to support the particular model > of Airport base station. > > If you have sufficiently recent version of Mac OS X it will come with > the same or a newer version of Airport Utility anyway. Ah cool... thanks for that ! H |