I've just installed an airport card into my 7 yr old Mac pro and it's struggling to see a network. When it does finally pick it up it's timing out when I enter the password. Can anyone help?
AirPort Express 802.11n (1st Gen), Mac OS X (10.6.8)
Can you move the system closer to the WiFi access point to see if the situation improves? The antennas in the Mac Pro are not that great.
The router is sitting right on top of the Mac pro tower. Do I need to configure the airport card or anything?
Are you sure the antenna wires are connected to the AirPort correctly? What is the signal strength you're seeing to your router/base station/access point?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Airport
https://discussions.apple.com/community/wireless/airport?view=discussions
http://www.apple.com/support/airport/
About updates:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1218
FAQ http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1515
Setup and Configure: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4259
Join network: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1731
Thanks Hatter and Kujako
A bit more information - I'm running a happy and well maintained apple wireless network using an Airport Extreme Base station with two Airort Express extensions.
The Base station sits on my Mac Pro and they're usually connected via LAN, however, I need to move the base station to another room and start to connect the MAc Pro via wireless. To that end, I bought a wireless card, I think it's the same one you've referenced here http://www.bluevoices.com/computers/apple-airport-wireless-card-for-mac-pro-netw ork-adapter-802-11b-802-11a-802-11g-802-11n-draft/.
In network preferences the airport option dipslays but shows as yellow. I can sometimes get my network to show in the available networks (but not consistently) and when I try to enter the password I either get an invalid password message or a timeout message.
It's also worth noting that I've got various other devices connected to the network with no problems.
Any ideas?
Mac pro wireless card not connecting to the Internet
