Airport Express Help

[.Dan]

Well i have an powerbook g4 12" (the new ones) so im trying to connect to my wireless LAN but it cant connect to the internet... my router its a Linksys (a blue one).. if some one can help me figure this out i would appresiate that..

Thanks

[krmathis]

Where does your AirPort Express fit into this?

[PureEdit]

Where does your AirPort Express fit into this?

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He probably means his extreme card.

[Vice]

yer where does your airport fit into that?.. start at your modem it then plugs into? then that plugs into? then so on.

[.Dan]

i mean the card... sorry.. my airport card...

[.Dan]

any one???

[Pilsbury]

Try to give some useful details - error messages what exactly you have tried, what else works on the LAN and wireless LAN, what the exact setup is and so on.

[BTallack]

Does your router use WEP? If so make sure you're selecting 64-bit encryption when connecting to the network, not the default 'Passphrase' option.

[michael.b]

Edit: Airport card not Express.

I hope I am not being too generic in the post, but if you don't get your answer taken care of here. Call Apple Care. They'll help you the best they can on getting in to run with a Linksys network. They helped me when I was new to the platform.

[DeleteMePlease]

Has you powerbook detected the airport and is there a connection from airport to powerbook? i.e do you see any bars

[.Dan]

yes it detect it... i saw the bars in the top-right of my notebook... and i can also see that the airport in the system preferences-network that airport detect the network "but it cant connect to the internet because the airport comes with an determinated IP"

[Pilsbury]

Set the correct IP details manually then.

If you only have a few machines, it's not really worth using DHCP anyways.

[.Dan]

i dont know how to change the IP can some plz tell me how??

[Vice]

why dont you.. umm read the manual... :unsure:

[.Dan]

can you plz tell me i dont know were did i put my manual..

[Vice]

find out what IP set your router uses it may use 10.x.x.x or 192.x.x.x or so on.

Find out which it does by reading its manual! (if you cannot find the manual go to there online website they always have the manual in a downloadable .pdf format!) once you know what the router requires go to system preferences on your mac -> Network -> Airport card -> IP / TCP -> Set Manually

Type in the details, alternative if you have another computer that works fine on the network copy its IP and all its settings but change the last digit for instance the computer you will copy is 192.1.1.1 make yours 192.1.1.2 (change the last digit) Mac sure you give the Macintosh the correct network KEY for your encryption and if you are using MAC address filtering that you know your computers MAC address and have entered it into the router properly.

[.Dan]

thanks you so.. MUCH WinMacLin...

Dan

[Amnesia]

if you still get an error I found the best solution.

Type 0x before the wep key.

worked for me

[.Dan]

I continue getting an error... :'(.... i'm going crazy.... never happened before

Dan

[Amnesia]

in case you didnt get what i meant

if your key is ABCDEFG

type 0xABCDEFG

also remember the key is case sensitive