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Power mac G4 Wireless

My power mac G4 has an airport card in it and will not recoginize our netgear wireless router. It can find the wireless connection, but continues to tell me I am entering the incorrect password (obviously I am not). Is there something else I need to do for the computer to recognize the wifi? I have already gone to the network set up and tried to start a new network. I have also gone to the wireless IP address to try to look for something out of the ordinary, but this was a little beyond my scope. Is there a driver, perhaps, that I need to install? Please help!

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Posted on Aug 4, 2013 7:15 PM

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Aug 5, 2013 9:54 AM in response to nuved310

Has this worked before?

As a test turn off encryption in wifi router

Try wep encryptions. -- it's worthless, but some old cards only support wep

Try spa spa2 encryption.

Robert

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Aug 5, 2013 8:20 PM in response to nuved310

Great advice so far! 🙂

If you do have an old AP card that doesnt support WPA2 & that is what your Router is set to, & you have 10.5...

http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Newer%20Technology/MXP3802NU2C/

Wifi for Panther/10.3.9 & up to 10.8.2...

Also for 10.3.9...

http://store.bearextender.com/products/bearextender-mini

http://store.bearextender.com/products/bearextender-for-mac?gclid=CMP2pNWLsa8CFS c0Qgod-mwiIA

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Aug 8, 2013 4:33 PM in response to rccharles

YAY! I had to change it to WEP... unfortunately. Thank you so much, the thought would have never crossed my mind otherwise.

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Aug 9, 2013 9:41 AM in response to nuved310

WEP provides some legal protection. It should allow a legal case against someone reading your network traffic.

From a practical perspective, there are programs on the internet that allow hackers to break into your network. ( I have read. )

If you need more protection, buy a wifi dongle listed above.

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