I am having trouble getting my nook color to connect to my airport expresss

Your Color Nook built-in Wi-Fi is capable of connecting to wireless networks that operate on the 2.4 GHz radio band only. On that band it can connect with the 802.11b/g/n radio modes and with all current wireless security types, including WEP, WPA, & WPA2. It does NOT support the 5 GHz band

If your AirPort Express is running a Wi-Fi with any of these parameters, the Nook should be able to connect. I assume that you have verified that the Nook can connect to other wireless networks AND that other wireless clients can connect to your AirPort Express ... correct?

My experience has been different. When I try to set up the Nook color for my Wi Fi network it balks at WPA2, and terminates before I can enter a password.

The Airport instruction booklet describes a procedure for putting the Nook's MAC address on the access list for Network utility, but it doesn't work (I believe this is called MAC address filtering).

It says "Open Airport utility, select your base station and choose Manual Setup from the base station menu" (I assume the author means tab not menu). At any rate, THERE IS NO SUCH CHOICE OFFERED.

At any rate, THERE IS NO SUCH CHOICE OFFERED.

You need to be using AirPort Utility 5.x.x, not 6.0, which is brand new and not covered in the printed guides yet.

But, you not not need to use MAC Address Filtering with the Nook....unless you require that every device uses this to be able to connect to your network.

The Nook will connect just fine if.....

1) The name of your wireless network uses only letters and numbers....no spaces...and no apostrophes, colons, exclamation marks, etc in the name of the wireless network.

2) Wireless Security is set at WPA/WPA2 Personal. WPA2 Personal may work as well, but I have not yet fully tested this.

It occured to me this might be the problem, so I downloaded the old network utility v5.6. Sure enough, the very first dislplay has a "manual setup" box, which I clicked. But my troubles are not over. Step 2 of the instructions says to choose "add wireless clients from the base station menu". Again, there is no such choice.

My network name uses letters and numbers only, but I've been using WPA2. I switched to WPA/WPA2, and will try again. Thanks for your efforts to assist.

Step 2 of the instructions says to choose "add wireless clients from the base station menu". Again, there is no such choice.

Please check the instructions just a bit more carefully......Base Station Menu....

The Base Station Menu is up at the top of the screen where the other menus always are......Help, Window, File, Base Station, etc.

But, you do not need to use the Add Wireless Clients stuff. Just connect the Nook like you would any other wireless device, computer, iPhone etc.

On the Nook....Select the network that you want it to join and enter the password.

No luck. I select the network to join, the Nook flashes "remembered" for a half second,

then "(name), secured by WPA/WPA2 PSK disabled".

I've ignored the "PSK", and don't know what it is. Could it be significant?

Briefly, I ran the network with NO secutiy, and the Nook hooked up easliy, so I have to believe my problem has something to do with WPA.

What the author calls a menu I would call a tab, but I know what he means.

I see a lot of posts by preople having the same trouble I am. Is anyone NOT haveing trouble getting the Nook on a network? Maybe I could do what you did.

I'll try to get over to my neighbor's place tomorrow to look at his Nook settings.

We did not do anything special to his Nook to get it to connect to his AirPort Extreme network....just used the default settings

We used WPA/WPA2 Security on the AirPort Extreme

Entered the name of the network and password in the Nook setup and the device connected immediately.

Suggest that you get the Nook back to its default factory settings and give it another go.

Thanks, Bob.

It would be wrong to ask you to run around to solve my problem. I'll see if I can get documentation for v6.0 from the Apple site.

Specifically, what is it that you need to do or be able to change with 6.0?

I don't understand your question. My Airport Express came with firmware version 5.6 and I upgraded to v 6.0 in keeping with Apple's recommendation.

Now my operatiing insructions don't match my program. I had hoped to find v6 instructions on Apple's support site but cannot.

Are you are suggesting that, unless I have good reason to run v 6, I should re-install the old 5.6, which is known to work, for some people at least/ That is entirely reasonable, except for the fact I can't get 5,6 to work either.

I am displeased that Apple would put me in this positon.

My suggestion would be to keep both 6.0 and 5.6 on your Mac and use the one that you want or need at the time.

6.0 is the "new guy" on the block....it is nice to look at, but it is lacking in a number of areas.

5.6 is the full featured version of AirPort Utility, and it will allow to follow any current Apple support documents. Apple made this version available on the same day that 6.0 was released, likely for users who needed the extra features or wanted to follow existing support documents.

It is not a "downgrade". In fact, it is an "upgrade" from 6.0.

6.0 may add more features and functionality in future versions. We'll have to wait and see since Apple never tells us anything in advance.

If you are still having difficulty finding the Base Station menu or Add Wireless Clients setting in 5.6, post back and I'll post some screen shots for you.

I have it working. Here's how:

Select Settings>Wireless. Your networks are displayed. Select the one you want. If the system tells you it's blocked, hit "forget". Another, apparently identical screen, comes up, but your network is not blocked on this one. Select your network, enter your password when prompted and that's it!

I agree with Bob Timmons in advising against MAC address filtering; it has serious disadvantages, even if you could make it to work, and it is unessessary.