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Is there a way to reset an Airport?

Kingsly

Kingsly

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I need my Airport for a trip (leave Wednesday) but I haven't used it in a while, and forgot the password. Is there a way to reset it to factory settings?






ciao
 
Unplug it, wait 30 seconds, hold in the reset button while plugging it in and keep holding it. The status light will blink 4 times. Now you can release it and run the airport setup assistant.

Enjoy!

Kingsly said:
I need my Airport for a trip (leave Wednesday) but I haven't used it in a while, and forgot the password. Is there a way to reset it to factory settings?






ciao
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Some_Big_Spoon said:
Unplug it, wait 30 seconds, hold in the reset button while plugging it in and keep holding it. The status light will blink 4 times. Now you can release it and run the airport setup assistant.

Enjoy!
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Tried that... followed Apple's support article to the letter. APAU keeps giving me an error. Its a graphite AirPort base, in case that helps.
 

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With my Airport Extreme I just pick it up and push the reset button in with a pen tip for 10 seconds. I have never unplugged it to reset and I have never had a problem. 😕
 
When you said trip I thought you meant the Airport Express. I take mine with me everywhere.

Hmm.. configuration error message. What are you doing? You're doing the reset button thing and it's giving you a config error? Can you access it in the Airport Admin Utility? If so, then reset it, or reapply the last firmware update.



Kingsly said:
Tried that... followed Apple's support article to the letter. APAU keeps giving me an error. Its a graphite AirPort base, in case that helps.
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Some_Big_Spoon said:
When you said trip I thought you meant the Airport Express. I take mine with me everywhere.

Hmm.. configuration error message. What are you doing? You're doing the reset button thing and it's giving you a config error? Can you access it in the Airport Admin Utility? If so, then reset it, or reapply the last firmware update.
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Tried all that. I connect the ethernet cable to my MBP, unplug, plug in, push the reset button, open APAU, click the Airport, click configure, click automatic, it does its thing and comes back with the error. Arrgh!
 
I know this doesn't help the problem you find yourself in now, but did you save the password in keychain? Just go to Keychain Access.app in the utilities folder and all your passwords should be saved there. (It'll prompt you for your master password to access them though)
 
neocell said:
I know this doesn't help the problem you find yourself in now, but did you save the password in keychain? Just go to Keychain Access.app in the utilities folder and all your passwords should be saved there. (It'll prompt you for your master password to access them though)
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Nope, I'm on my MacBook Pro. Last time I used it was my iBook G3!

EDIT: I reset it using the iBook... worked fine. I guess something with OSX86 causes the old graphite Airports to freak out.
 
neocell said:
Good that you got it worked out 🙂
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Yep, now If I can get it to work with a roadrunner cable modem (at the uncle's house) then all will be good. 🙂 *fingers crossed*
 
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