Airport Utility 5.6 on Mavericks?

having trouble getting this wine thing or the second workaround working. can someone help me out?

Hi there, is Apple expecting that we consumers throw away working apple products? I can not hear my music any more with my just 5 years old AirPort Express cause it can't be configure with Mavericks. Is there at least a plan to substitute the old ones by new ones? Or should we start asking ourselves not to buy Mac products because its operating life is just 5 years? I just posted this comment on apple Feedback. We the people, having the same situation, should complain and let them know we like using the hardware we pay for until the HARDWARE stops working. http://www.apple.com/feedback/airportexpress.html

Ok, I made what suggested by Ninad but I used Crossover instead that is more complete and works better. It's in promo at Macupdate now https://deals.macupdate.com

Airport 5.X still works under Windoze 7 (😉). I am running Mavericks and using Parallels and the Windoze version of Airport Utility 5.5.3 and it works fine with my old UFO-looking Airport Extreme G. If you don't have Parallels you could probably dual boot or use Virtual Box or something along those lines to accomplish the same thing.

Virtual Box is free: virtualbox.org

Windoze isn't....

Good luck!

I've come to the same conclusion and am happily running Airport 5.6.1 on my late 2006 MacBook Pro which won't run Mavericks (maybe Linux, though).

I just sent this feedback:

I own THREE first generation extremes, that I can no longer administrate under Mavericks - This change was not announced, and I was successfully doing this on my 17 inch MBP under the originally supplied Lion, and Mountain Lion updates. These base stations are still useful to me and to many others. Some of us have older computers that could run the older software, but others do not - don't make an assumption that we have a spare CPU for this task or are willing to purchase and use a foreign OS to do it. Please provide a mechanism to continue this functionality under Mavericks.

So folks, Apple hardware seems to be working only thanks to workaround using Windows...?!?!?! What the XXX Apple, wake up! Or ur next step is selling Windows as a part of Mavericks update? 😁

Airport Utility 6.x is garbage. I might as well throw out my Time Capsule and never buy another Apple routing product if this is the best they can do. Airport Utility 5.x had functionality that I deem critical, such as a LOG FILE VIEWER. What a bunch of nonsense removing logging from the GUI. The functionality is still there on the device, you just can't see it in the 6.x app. There were other nice features in the old version as well, such as the ability to see wireless signal strength of all of my attached devices, which I actually used one time to find a lost wireless device in my house. Give it some thought, it's a great tool in a pinch. If they really do kill the old utility in a way that work-arounds no longer work, I will really throw this router in the trash.

Apple changed one of theirs private frameworks in Mavericks, in particular Apple80211.framework and that's why Airport Utility 5.6 doesn't run under Mavericks. I've managed to run it though by using this framework from 10.8 and starting Airport Utility 5.6 from a terminal. However this is ugly... but it does the trick. Hopefully Apple will put back all what's missing in 6.x....

apple wants us to buy the new express... mine is now 6 or 7 years old and still works nicely... i was using the 5.6 in mountain lion as well as the newer airport utility... to make it impossible for us to change settings on mavericks is a smack in the face...!!!

Is anyone else getting an error when entering this discussion from the email notifications? I see this when I click on the disccusion link in emails:

" It appears you're not allowed to view what you requested. You might contact your administrator if you think this is a mistake."

I am interested in this thread because I want someone at Apple to fix their broken software that supports their still useful hardware, and let us know they actually read and respond to their customer's concerns, and, am a bit miffed at the error message that indicates falsely that I am not permitted to access the discussion.

That's because Apple is deleting the posts that mention the solution. 😟

My easy solution posts just got deleted :-(

Search for answers elsewhere in the world wide web.

Everyone.

Just Google: Airport Utility 5.6.1 on OS X 10.9

I posted a solution that works perfectly fine on my Mac Min and my iMac 27", both running Mavericks.

Apple Support Communities has removed my post, telling me so, in an email. In the email they reference these two articles which, after reading, I KNOW I am not violating.

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3743

https://discussions.apple.com/static/apple/tutorial/tou.html

The first entry above refernces iOS and jail breaking.

My suggested solution was for Mavericks and is NOT jailbreaking.

The second references the T's and C' of using Apple Communities, which again, I did not violate.

I was respectful, helpful, stayed on Topic and "suggested" what has been working for me, might work for you, on MAVERICKS, not iOS.

We'll see how long this helpful entry lasts, before the HOST, applies the wrong response.

I had the same thing happen to me (Apple removing my post). I'm pretty sure the Apple moderators are deleting the posts to the easy solution (Airport Utility 5.6.1 launcher) because that site provides the 5.6.1 binary along with the launcher script. When you think about it, it is pretty dangerous to download an Apple utility or app from a third party. I did it and it worked for me (so far) but it really is a theoretically unsafe fix (I'm NOT saying the fix is unsafe, just that downloading Apple binaries from third party web sites is inherently unsafe). I probably should have found and downloaded the Airport Utility 5.6.1 on Apple's site and just used the launcher to be safe(r).