I'm trying to use a old airport express 802g and the support page says to install airport utility 5.6 to do that but this version will not install on OS X 10.8.2. What next anyone???
Michael
Have you tried using the version that came with Mountain Lion? If not, then give it a try. If you aren't successful then download 5.6.1 that does work with Mountain Lion.
Hi Kappy,
AirPort Utility 6.1 comes packed in with Mountain Lion. Unfortunately, AirPort Utility 6.1 cannot be used to configure older "b/g" wireless devices.
Either AirPort Utility 5.6 or 5.6.1 can be used.....the problem is that Apple's installer will not allow you to install either application on Mountain Lion.
You can manually install the application using a utility like Pacifist. Apple of course does not officially support this, but it works as far we know. More details here:
http://www.macworld.com/article/1167965/mountain_lion_and_the_ancient_airport_ba se_station.html
I've been able to install 5.6.1 on my system without using Pacifist, Bob. In fact I just did that two days ago trying to "fix" the bad relationship between my AEX and Bright House modem/router. But one can use Pacifist to install it quite easily, of course.
Do you know a secret that you can share?
I cannot download and install 5.6 on Mountain Lion (or 5.6.1) without using Pacifist or a similar utility...and neither can the the original poster michaeltbarret, as he has already reported above.
Ha! I don't have a clue. It just happened to work for me the other day, and I couldn't begin to tell you why. No luck with it today. Maybe I did use Pacifist and just forgot. I do that a lot (forget.)
5.6 not working with 10.8.2
