Airport Icon Greyed Out with Up Arrow Over It

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Airport Icon Greyed Out with Up Arrow Over It

I have a PowerBook Pismo G3 with an original airport card. Worked fine to connect to wifi networks. A grandchild fiddled with the settings in the internet/file sharing/airport/??? panes and now I can't connect wirelessly to anything.

What does the Up Arrow over the Airport icon in the menu bar mean?

Powerbook G3, Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Posted on Mar 21, 2007 12:42 PM

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Jeff Rushton

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Mar 21, 2007 2:05 PM in response to MartaGo

Hello MartaGo,

Welcome to the  Discussions!!!

Look in System Preferences -> Sharing -> Internet and see if Internet Sharing is on. If it is, turn it off.

The arrow through your Airport Menulet indicates that your Mac is acting as a Software Base Station and is using your Airport card to wirelessly share your internet connection (ala Airport Base Station).

I used my Mac Mini to do this while I was waiting for my Base Station. Worked great for my wife's PB.

Hope This Helps,

Jeff

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