I just purchased a new airport extreme base station. Is has a USB port but I can not get anything to work using the USB port on the device. Everything works using the USB on my Mac but none work on the airport itself. Any suggestions on how to correct?
What have you tried connecting to the 802.11n AirPort Extreme Base Station's (AEBSn) USB port that doesn't work?
Have connected my Kodak USB printer and a USB headphone set. Neither worked on the airport USB but both worked from the USB on my computer.
The AEBSn's USB port will ONLY support USB printers, hard disk drives, or hubs ... so your USB headphones would NOT work.
However, your USB should work, although not all USB printers are supported. Please check out the following Apple Support article for help with troubleshooting your printer.
Went to the article, which I had tried before but thought I would try one more time in case I missed something, followed step by step and didn't work. Went to the Kodak website to download update for printer driver (I have a 5500 series printer), but still didn't work after the update. Works fine when plugged into my Mac USB.
The airport utility recognizes my printer, however when I go to print using the airport USB, I get an error message from my printer that says it is not connected.
Then, unfortunately, your printer just may be one of those that the printer's manufacturer has not provided a driver that works with the AirPort.
Kodak's website claims it will work with it so this will probably be one of those issues that isn't resolved for some time because neither Apple nor Kodak will try to fix because they both say it will work. Wll be interested to see if there is anyone out there with a Kodak 5500 printer using it with the airport USB.
Airport extreme USB doesn't work.
