Airport Utility 6.1 Bug(s)?

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Airport Utility 6.1 Bug(s)?

Hello all

I'd appreciate any help or guidance on two things, please:

1. Can anyone explain the peculiar appearance of Airport Utility's interface?... or better still suggest a solution?

It wasn't always thus, just one day out of the blue it began to look this way and a re-installation has made no change.

2. Using Airport Utility 6.1 to edit an Airport Extreme or Time Capsule, the Internet tab invariable reports DHCP, whereas the setup of the devices is static. Airport Utility on iPad reports this correctly as Static. Furthermore, attempting to change the setting from DHCP to static using Airport Utility 6.1 on my MBP results in the usual "This device and its network services will be temporarily unavailable" dialogue. But the device does not reboot if I "continue" at that point... nothing happens at all.

Any ideas and suggestions welcome, thanks.

MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2)

Posted on Jan 28, 2013 2:56 PM

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Bob Timmons

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Jan 28, 2013 3:22 PM in response to Expr3ss!

1. Can anyone explain the peculiar appearance of Airport Utility's interface?... or better still suggest a solution?

Ignore AirPort Utility 6.1 and use AirPort Utility 5.6. You will need to use a workaround to do this, but it will be worth the effort. See this article for more details:

http://www.macworld.com/article/1167965/mountain_lion_and_the_ancient_airport_ba se_station.html

AP 6.1 is a "Lite" version that has been dumbed down primarily for use on the iPhone and iPad. It does make a nice picture.....when it works, but Apple left off more than 20 useful features on this "upgrade".

AP 5.6 is a real utility. Keep it on your Mac and use it to administer all of your AirPorts.

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Jan 28, 2013 3:52 PM in response to Bob Timmons

Thanks @Bob Timmons

I found the resource you mentioned before I posted here and will probably go down that route, with thanks for your post.

I'm still curious about the "maxi-icons" though!

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Jan 28, 2013 4:02 PM in response to Expr3ss!

I cannot recall another post with a similar issue and could not find anything like this on a few forum searches. Maybe another user can help us out here.

Since AirPort Utility 6.1 is now part of the Mountain Lion operating system, you cannot easily "delete" the version that you have and install another.

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Jan 28, 2013 4:17 PM in response to Expr3ss!

With thanks to @Bob Timmons I thought I'd re-post the solution found in the link he shared.

The post about installing Airport Utility 5.6 (Lion) without having to buy an unpackaging utility worked perfectly. Just remember to open the .dmg file then locate the .pkg file within it. This is the file to drag and drop into the nice little unpkg.app utilty (kudos to the author http://www.timdoug.com/unpkg/).

For clarity, here are the original instructions that worked for free for me:

Hey, this has is a free solution to the problem that has worked out fine for me:

1) Download the Lion Version of AirPort Utility from http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1482?viewlocale=en_US

2) Download a free tool called unpkg from http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/16357/unpkg

3) Use unpkg to extract the app from the .pkg installer inside the dmg image you´ve downloaded, drag it into your Applications folder and done!

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