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How I set up older Airport Express 802.11g on Mountain Lion.

How do I set up older Airport Express 802.11g on Mountain Lion.

AirPort Express Base Station, OS X Mountain Lion

Posted on Jul 29, 2012 1:11 PM

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Jul 31, 2012 6:00 PM in response to messonic

It's shocking that Apple has chosen to break this functionality in Mountain Lion! I can't imagine it's much work to write the necessary code to allow the new version of Airport Utility to set up the older Model A1084 AirPort Express Base Stations and others of that b/g era. I have many of these units between my house and office, and used them to stream my music from iTunes.


As Bob said (above), "Hopefully, Apple will soon address this issue."


Message was edited by: S. Kaliko Trapp to remove the word "s u c k s" and replace it with "shocking"

Aug 17, 2012 5:45 AM in response to george wayne

you will need to download and use Airport Utility 5.6 to be able to set up or reconfigure the older Airport Express or extreme bas stations.

You can find and download this from Apple

Did you do this? If you try, you will see that you can download AirPort Utility 5.6, but the Apple installer will not allow you to install 5.6 on Mountain Lion.

Aug 17, 2012 6:14 AM in response to Bob Timmons

Hi folks,

This is easy as pie. The installer for 5.6 and 5.6.1 won't let you install them in Mountain Lion, but you can go to the link I posted above to get around that. You download a zip file that you extract to find an Automator Workflow, which looks like an application but is actually a thing onto which you drag-and-drop the installer application. It takes 30 seconds or so (you'll see a spinning gear in your menu bar) to fiddle around with the installer and tease out the Airport admin app from within the installer, and then it drops the admin app on your desktop, where you can open it and configure your airport 802.11g without a problem. Feel free to read the full text of that page I linked to get a more precise description :-)

Aug 20, 2012 6:11 AM in response to John Clouse1

You need to perform a Factory Default Reset on the Express.


Resetting an AirPort Base Station or Time Capsule FAQ


When you do this, the Express sends out a wireless network signal with a name like Apple Network xxxxxx. You must log on to this wireless network first....no password is required....and then open AirPort Utility.

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