What to do when unable to turn on the airport?

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What to do when unable to turn on the airport?

I have 2 imac connected to a Cisco WRT 120N router. One day, the 27" iMac cannot detect the network through the airport while other iMac works normally. The apple system profiler shows the card installed but no network available. I tried to turn it on but failed, I tried to add the network manually but failed either.

WRT120N

iMac (27-inch Mid 2010), Mac OS X (10.6.8)

Posted on Dec 7, 2012 12:54 AM

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Answer 1

a brody

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Dec 7, 2012 9:20 AM in response to Peter Lee1

Make sure the router does not have MAC address filtering turned on. It may only accept connections from specific computers. MAC is a hexadecimal address known as Media Access Control that all network devices have that is unique to each device. Has nothing to do with Macintosh.

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Peter Lee1 Author

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Dec 9, 2012 6:27 PM in response to a brody

The MAC filter is disabled, should not be the reason.

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