[X4U] Airport Express

[Jan Melichar]

On 13 Feb 2007, at 01:43, Tim Collier wrote:

>
> On Feb 12, 2007, at 7:26 AM, Jan Melichar wrote:
>
>> Now that I am surrounded by wireless networks I thought it was  
>> time I enabled some security.
>> I'm using a Netgear DG834GT wireless router which is contacted to  
>> a G5 by eathernet and wirelessly to a powerbook and Airport Express.
>>
>> While I can set up WEP security which works fine with the  
>> powerbook I cannot see how this can be set up with Airport  
>> Express. After setting up WAP, Airport Express become unavailable.
>>
>> So I tried setting the security details in Airport Express before  
>> activating them in the router but got the following 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."
>>
>> Since AE is WPA capable I ignored the warning and went ahead.  
>> Unfortunately this did not help establish a connection and do what  
>> I may I cannot establish a workable connection.
>
> Are you certain you reset it?  The procedure is as follows:   
> depress the reset button with it unplugged and then while STILL  
> depressing the reset button, plug it in--continue holding reset.   
> It will show amber, then after about 20 seconds or so will give 3  
> quick green flashes then back to amber.  THEN it is reset to  
> factory default settings.
> This next bit is probably unwelcome advice, but you really should  
> consider using ALL Apple wireless networking devices.  They work  
> very well together and are VERY easy to set up.
>
> Tim


Thanks for the tip. Actually I managed to solve the problem by  
connecting to AX via ethernet and was only then able to change the  
setting. So simple by why should such a convoluted process be necessary?

Jan