connecting older emac (wirelessly) to airport extreme?

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connecting older emac (wirelessly) to airport extreme?

Hi everyone, i recently picked up an older emac g4 700mb. I just got this past week a few wireless airport cards (that i know are the right ones for this computer). I installed the card, turned on computer and saw the "airport" bars on the top right. I opened the airport, it seems to have full bar strength...i went to try to connect it to the network i have (both reg or guest network) and it doesn't want to connect..it says it has trouble connecting (conn. failed) to either networks. I turned the gues one to a WEP connection and it still didn't work...am i doing something wrong? need some help pls...

thanks

fabs

Posted on Dec 30, 2011 10:10 PM

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BDAqua

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Dec 30, 2011 11:09 PM in response to pastachef514

Hi, you're lucky it didn't KP or bomb, with the latest Aple Routers you have to setup a seperate SSId for 80211b/g networks & join that.

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3549357?answerId=16929149022#16929149022

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Dec 31, 2011 5:21 AM in response to BDAqua

Hey BD, thanks for the reply..so how would i be able to go about doing that??? is it in the AE? when i choose the airport advanced setup..the headings there are:

AIRPORT TCP/IP DNS WINS 802.1X PROXIES ETHERNET

is it somewhere in there? thanks

fabs

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BDAqua

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Dec 31, 2011 10:58 AM in response to pastachef514

Boy, I don't have one of those AEs, but it must be in there somewhere, I've read a year or so ago here on this forum that a couple of people said that was the solution, I think I even asked for complete steps to do it but got no reply.

Guessing from using my old Saucer Base Station, (which doesn't have the n band), that the most likely place would be Airport>Wireless, maybe Wireless Options there, just not sure.

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