WPA Personal & A Non Airport G5

[redAPPLE]

hi guys.

think about this. the setup:

_G5connected to a switch

_Airport Extreme connected to a cable modem

so here's the problem: i tried to convert from 128 bit WEP to the new (more secure?) WPA Personal, but i get the message:

"Joining a WPA-protected network and making changes to a WPA-protected base station requires a WPA capable computer. This computer is not WPA capable. If you continue you will not be able to join the WPA-protected network or make changes to the WPA-protected base station."

i do not have the time to reconfigure everything especially this time before christmas . so has anyone tried this?

thanks and merry christmas to everybody.

 

[mim]

hi guys.

think about this. the setup:

_G5connected to a switch

_Airport Extreme connected to a cable modem

so here's the problem: i tried to convert from 128 bit WEP to the new (more secure?) WPA Personal, <snip>

I've got a similar setup to this - iMac into APE basestation. I used to change between WEP and WPA all the time (gf's windows XP laptop had issues with WPA...seems to be much better with SP2 by the way...).

I used to see this message often when administrating the basestation from the iMac. You can ignore it, as long as you remember the password you set - that is, you can always administrate the APE basestation via the ethernet connection.

All you'll have to do after changing to WPA is reboot the basestation and re-log your laptops into the network with the new password.

Good luck!