Missing item airport utility menu

Although your profile indicates that you are using the Snow Leopard operating system, it sounds like you have installed Lion on your Mac.

There is no Manual Setup option in AirPort Utility 6.0, the version which comes with Lion 10.7.x.

Even if you are using AirPort Utility 5.x.x, the Manual Setup option is not present under the Base Station menu.

In AirPort Utility 5.x.x, the Manual Setup option appears when the application is first opened, along with another option to click Continue, which will bring up the guided setup process.

Yes, I"m sure he's using 6.0 because he's looking at the watered down version in that menu-tab

Anyhow, the only time that menu is generally needed, is to copy the Network Equivalent Password.

If you do want a Manual Setup option, I suggest that you download and install the full featured version of AirPort Utility 5.6 for Mac OS X Lion

AirPort Utility 6.0....which is what you have....has a nice picture, but Apple unfortunately left a lot of other useful things out of 6.0.

You can keep both 5.6 and 6.0 on your Mac and use the one that you want.

I'm running lion and when I tried to install AirPort Utility 5.6 for Mac OS X Lion and I just get "installation failed". I'm currently running 6.3 Airport Utility and need to be able to install with a PIN. Ideas?

6.3 Utility has install with Pin .. from the top menu choose WPS printer.

The fact that if what you want to install isn't a printer will make no difference.

You can however use 5.6 utility in later versions of lion.. with a bit of skullduggery.

How to load 5.6 into later Lion & ML

1. Download 5.6 for Lion.

http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1482

Click to open the dmg but do not attempt to install the pkg.. it won't work anyway.

Leave the package open on the desktop so you can see the file. AirportUtility56.pkg

2. Download and install unpkg.

http://www.timdoug.com/unpkg/

Run unpkg on the desktop.. If your Mac refuses to run the software, because it wasn't downloaded from the Apple store, go to security in preferences and allow other software to work.. this is limitation of trade methinks. You can set back later if you like.

Now drag the AirPortUtility56.pkg file over to unpkg.. and it will create a new directory of the same name on the desktop.. in finder, open the new directory, drill down.. applications, utilities .. there lo and behold is Airport utility 5.6 .. drag it to your main utilities directory or just run it from current location.

You cannot uninstall version 6 (now 6.3 if you updated) so don't try.. and you cannot or should not run them both at the same time.. although I have had no problems when doing so.

Thanks! After posting I thought "What the ****!" and tried the pin even though its not a printer. Worked like a charm for a minute. The problem lies in my bluray player I think. Whatever. I appreciate the assist!