Hey, having a difficult time getting a g4 mdd 1.42 firewire 800 with an airport extreme a1206 to connect to my newer airport express wall outlet thing via wifi. Is the g4 network card just too old to make this work?
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Airport Extreme Card a1206 not connecting to airport express
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Help us out here. We know which AirPort card is in the Mac, but exactly what kind of AirPort Express do you have? What kind of encryption methods have you tried? Is it just not getting a strong enough signal, or is it timing out when you connect? OS version on the PowerMac can't hurt either.
i know the g3 is incapable of connecting to modern wpa networks. it was WEP only. i forget about the g4, i know my quicksilver g4 was compatible
when in doubt use the preshared key, if that doest work, the its not compatible
go to https://www.wireshark.org/tools/wpa-psk.html
enter your SSID
enter your passphrase
it will spit out a 64 character long 504 bit preshared key.
paste that instead of the password you use to connect to the wifi network
and see if that works.
the web code runs in your browser. it does not get transmitted to that website, so it is safe to use.
when in doubt use the preshared key, if that doest work, the its not compatible
go to https://www.wireshark.org/tools/wpa-psk.html
enter your SSID
enter your passphrase
it will spit out a 64 character long 504 bit preshared key.
paste that instead of the password you use to connect to the wifi network
and see if that works.
the web code runs in your browser. it does not get transmitted to that website, so it is safe to use.
Its the airport express 802.11g. Its asking for a wpa password and the pass i use on my ipad, and current macs isnt working. The ppc is running whatever the latest os it can run is. I am hoping to be able to figure this out without messing with the airport express cuz everything else in the house is working well and dont want to disrupt everything for this old ppc but it would be nice to get it on wifi.
The original AirPort card required OS X 10.3.x and AirPort Software Update 3.3 to connect to WPA networks. On top of that, most of these AirPort cards will only connect to TKIP enabled networks and not AES.
So Tiger or Leopard. It should have the necessary software to connect. You could plug the G4 into the Ethernet port on the Express as well.
If resetting network connections in System Prefs or deleting network preferences in your Library does not work, try reinstalling the last OSX Combo Update. That worked on a troublesome Powerbook recently for me. Sometimes a corrupt file somewhere can cause network issues.
Didnt work. Is there a terminal command i can run to provide some specs here to help troubleshoot this more?