Hp photosmart C6150 invalid WPA passphrase with new airport base station

Okay, I had the old flying saucer type base station that worked great wirelessly with my HP all in one C6150 printer. I upgraded to the new square base station and printer still worked fine. Then about a week ago, my printer can no longer find the network. I unplugged it for some time, been using the USB cable for now and can now find the network in the selection list on the printer. The problem is, I keep receiving the error "invalid WPA passphrase" even though it is the correct one. I have tried changing the passwork on the base station, my computers can find it and work great, but the printer doesn't want to accept the passphrase no matter what I try between 8 and 64 digits (mine is 13 digits). I am about ready to chuck everything out the window. I ran updates on the base station and possibly my computer at some point after the initial hookup of the base station. So perhaps the update affected my ability to connect?
My dad recently visited with his newer macbookpro (I have a powerbook g4 running 10.4.11) and his did not connect to my network even while mine was (at that time). So it leads me to think something in an update mucked it all up but would LOVE to know if anyone else has had this happen and how to fix it!

Ok. I found a solution that works for me. Taking one of the poster's cue about the installer's confusion over an the presence of both an Airport Extreme and Airport Express(es), I unplugged my AP Expresses such that the installer only saw one access point, the AP Extreme. This time the installer was able to complete the wireless installation.
I then plugged my AP Expresses back in and found that the printer has no problem with them.
Apparently, it's the installer that can't handle the multiple access points, not the printer.
Anyway, it worked for me.

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There are 4 iphone5's and 1 iphone4 on my network along with 2 laptops running 10.6.8 and 10.7 respectively as well as two desktops with the same configurations as the laptops.
I get a sense that the iphones may/will be useless the new airport.
Can I use the old base station (operating as an extender/bridge/router) so that older equipment will operate in the short term until they are upgraded?
Thank you.

I get a sense that the iphones may/will be useless the new airport
They will work fine with a new AirPort base station. You can use an iPhone or iPad to set up and configure the new base station. If you want to use a Mac to set up and configure the new AirPort, it will need to have at least Lion 10.7.5 installed. Mountain Lion 10.8 or Mavericks 10.9 could be used as well.
Can I use the old base station (operating as an extender/bridge/router) so that older equipment will operate in the short term until they are upgraded?
You can use the older AirPort base station to extend the wireless network. No updates will be needed to your iPhones or Macs.

I lost my connection with my AirPort Base Station when I upgraded to the OS Maverick. How can I get my system to recognize the base station again?

I lost my connection with my AirPort Base Station when I upgraded to the OS Maverick. I can still see the Internet, but the Time Machine cannot backup now because it cannot locate the AirPort base station. How can I resolve this issue?
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That information helps. If you want to use one of the SmartStor's disks as a repository for sharing your iTunes Library, then do not configure that disk as a RAID. Format it with Disk Utility using the Erase tab. Mac OS Extended (Journaled) is the correct choice.
Connect it to your Time Capsule, then use AirPort Utility to configure access requirements for sharing it on your network. It should appear as a shared volume in the Finder, available to all your Macs as you thought it should.
I also thought maybe the extra HD space would be added to the existing Airport Disk. It isn't.
Correct. There is no way to do that. The only way to increase the capacity of a Time Capsule's hard disk is to replace the Time Capsule (or its disk, if you are amenable to disassembling it) with a larger capacity model.
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We just replaced our old extreme base station with the new fast one. It works good so far except that now my two existing airport expresses- one I use for airtunes and the other to relay the wireless signal to a far corner of the house- don't work. What do I need to do to set them up with the new station? I tried a reset but it didn't help.

Either connect them with ethernet to configure the Expresses or find them wirelessly(you can use Airport Utility or the older Airport Admin Utility). The bottom line is to get the Express selected in Airport ie the icon on the top file menu then use the Utility. If your nearwork is not visible to select then use the preferred drop down menu found in Network pane of system preferences. You may need to type in the network name or use the + button.

Will there be a new airport express like the new airport base station?

Will the airport express be upgradable to the "N" standard? (I doubt it.)
If you want to use your airport express with the new Base stations wouldn't it screw up the "Pre-N" mode? (I don't doubt it)
Is apple saying that one wouldn't need an airport express to extend the reach of the new base station because the new "Pre-N" modes have so much more range? (I think so).
Does this mean that apple will be making a new version of the Airport express with A,B, G and "Pre-N" ? How cool would that be? I want one of those!!
IMHO the airport express is the coolest Network device available for use with either Macs or WINdoz machines. It is just plain cool. It seems to me that the new Base station has little or no place in it's heart for it's older little brother.
Yaesumofo

As you know from reading the "Help & Terms of Use" for this discussion area, we are Mac users like yourself and have no special knowledge of Apple's future plans or activities.
Furthermore in the "Help & Terms of Use" it states that speculation on future Apple products, plans, or activities is forbidden in this discussion area.

Airport Admin Utility v4 with older Airport base station

I'm trying to reconfigure my Airport network and AP Admin Utility v4.2 sees my base station but cannot access it. The network works fine as it is, but I can't change it. Is there an issue of the newer software with the older hardware?

Stephen:
1. if you have an older Snow or Graphite Base Station, you can only use the Airport Express as a client to the existing wireless network. This means you can stream iTunes to it, and print to a printer cabled to it. You cannot use the Airport Express as a "wireless to wired" bridge.
2. since you now seem to be "stuck" - I suggest you unplug the Airport Express from power and ignore it for now. Get your original wireless network setup working again. Then hard reset the Airport Express, run the Airport Setup Assistant, and use its guidance to configure the Airport Express to join the existing wireless network created by your older Base Station.
2. the unofficial list of compatible printers is found at:
http://www.efelix.co.uk/tech/1013.html

Just got a time capsule with my airport base station.

I am trying to use it as a backup but keep getting an error message, i have other backups using time machine on my imac, but on different hard disks that are all dis-mounted. I want to use the Time-capsule as my main backup for our different mac's. not sure what to do?

Is the TC available as a TM target?
You sometimes need to reset the TM to allow a new network destination to be chosen.. but it will usually work with multiple destinations .. you just need to select where you want the backup.
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Reset it and run the airport utility 5.6 from Lion to do the setup.. v6 in lion does make a mess of this often enough we recommend don't use it.
Apple made a version of the utility from previous versions available to Lion since v6 was featureless.
http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1482
Ignore what it says .. just load it into the computer and use that instead.

Trouble with new airport- Blinking Amber light

Not sure if this has been answered- but I'm having mucho problems with my new airport express. I am running an powerbook g4 with the original airport- and I want to use the express to extend the range of the airport. However I followed the directions on the apple support- and the light is STILL blinking amber- what's the deal. Can someone help me- step by step (i'm kinda slow...even though it's still apple haha!)
Thanks!

I've had a lot of similar problems, and find the whole process quite frustrating, as the directions are very minimal.
The easiest way that I've come up with is as follows.
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2. Open up the AirPort Setup Assistant (Applications/Utilities/AirPort Setup Assistant).
3. Select the option to set up a new AirPort Base station and select the base station (it will have a weird-looking alphanumeric name).
4. Select the option to join the current network, and then select the option to extend the range of your current network.
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I am unable to join my existing wireless network with new AirPort Express

I am unable to join my existing wireless network with new AirPort Express.
I am using a DLink DI-524 Router, Windows 7 (64), and the AirPort Express.
AirPort Utility will not recognize the AEX wirelessly, it will only recognize it when it is connected by Ethernet. I can then configure the AEX and verify that the settings stick once disconnected and then reconnected. However, even after that, it will not recognize the AEX once disconnected from the Ethernet cable.
I followed the suggestions of several other threads on these forums. But I am unable to get the AEX to work.
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Welcome to the discussion area!
It's almost always a security setting that causes problems when the Airport Express (AX) tries to join a third party wireless network. The AX usually does not "join" correctly and that's why you can't see it on your wireless network using AirPort Utility.
Using an ethernet cable is still the more reliable way to configure and adjust the AX, but if you are want to try to configure it using wireless, you must return the AX back to factory defaults as follows:
Power down the AX
Hold in the reset button +and keep holding it in+ as you plug the AX back in to power
Release the reset button after 10 seconds
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Open AirPort utility, click Manual Setup
Click the Base Station tab to establish a name for the AX, device password and adjust time zone settings
Click the Wireless tab
Wireless Mode....Join a wireless network
Wireless Network Name...must exactly match your D-Link wireless network name
Enable ethernet clients if you want the port to be active (your D-Link must be compatible with ProxySTA for this to work)
Wireless Security...exact setting of the D-Link network. WEP security causes a lot of issues. Try to use WPA/WPA2 Personal, which is far more secure.
Wireless Password...must match the D-Link network
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And if not, is there any other way for me to be able to play music wirelessly to my home stereo from my mac and iPhone/iPods, like I was able to do before?

Im thinking my Airport Express has failed. I tried hard resetting it several times and I can see it through Airport utility, nor my iPhone. The iPhone sees it, but it cannot set it up.
Looks like I need to get a new Airport Express no matter what. Ive had it for a Looooong time. So I guess its number was finally up.
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Can't set up Airport base stations with new MacBook Pro

i have a brand new, late-2013 15" MacBook Pro running Mavericks. my attempts, using this machine, to set up my sixth-generation, 802.11ac Airport Extreme and my brand-new, whatever-generation 802.11n Airport Express purchased yesterday at an Apple Store (that means it's the current generation, with the power cord) - these attempts all fail with Airport Utility saying it's joining the base station for about a minute and a half, after which it stops trying and says, "An unexpected error occurred. Please try again."
i can set up both of those base stations effortlessly with my iPhone.
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why can i set these devices up with my iPhone and not with the newest, best, fastest, fanciest, most powerful laptop Apple makes?
thank you.

mmm...okay. thank you, Bob.
for now, i've got the base stations configured via my iPhone, and once configured, my MBP can see and use them just fine. it just irks the **** out of me that my brand-new top-of-the-line MacBook Pro can't handle this simple task, and should have to use a wired connection to set up my base stations (how archaic!). it may be the only device i have with me one day when i want to set up an Airport base station (okay, that's unlikely, but it's the principle of the thing, dammit).
are we sure this is a matter of bugs in Mavericks, and not a hardware problem with my MBP or something?
many thanks.

I have a strange WPA problem with my airport card

To set the scene, I'm using a powerbook G4 with built in airport card. My home router is a Belkin Pre-N MIMO.
I have had a recurring problem with the router for a few months now, I don't quite know when it started, but it has gotten to the point where I must do something about it.
The security on the router is set to WPA PSK with a TKIP system. I understand that in order to preserve the integrity of the encryption, the WPA key is routinely changed. In normal circumstances, this transfer is instant, but for some reason on my powerbook, it results in the computer becoming disconnected from the Internet, although it thinks it is still connected. Even more strangely, only port 80 is affected by this, as ftp, POP3, online games and instant messengers work fine.
Disabling the security on the router seems to fix the issue, but leaves the network open to others. Other wireless computers, including a G4 MDD with a Belkin Wifi card, are not affected by this issue.
I thought it might be a problem with my powerbook's built in wireless card not dealing with the WPA key change process, but i'm not sure. I'd appreciate any insight.

This was solved by buying an Apple Airport Base Station.

Interoperability with older wireless standards using new Airport Base?

my question to everyone is how will the new base station inter-operate with existing Apple Wireless equipment, like the older Airport Express 802.11g?
I have the older base station at the moment, which is 802.11g compatible and I also use Airport Express to stream music to my Amplifier from iTunes.
Off course because they all have the same speed and use WDS to work as a pair, I get extended wireless signal all around my house which is great.
How will that work with the new base station?
Will they still work together, and how will you stop devices that support 802.11n from stepping down to 11g if the signal from your airport express is stronger as part of the WDS network?
Any help and advice would be greatly appreciated.
cheers
G

I couldn't find any manuals or guides that include
the new AEBS with 802.11n.
They haven't been released yet.
I would guess that with
the new AEBS, it will work with 802.11a,b & g, but
operate at the speed of the lowest common
denominator. So if you had three 802.11n devices and
one 802.11b, all would operate at the 802.11b speed
because the AEBS would switch to that mode for all
wireless. This is how it has been done before on
previous Airport Base Stations.
This is not correct.
When a device 802.11b or 802.11g joins an 802.11n network, yes it does slow it down, but not down to the lowest denominator.
If an 802.11b or 802.11g client joined an 802.11n network, 802.11n clients would still connect at speeds faster than 802.11g, but not as fast as a pure 802.11n network.
With the 802.11g Airport Extreme and Airport Express, a similar thing would happen when a 802.11b client joined the network, 802.11g clients would still connect at speeds faster than 802.11b, but just not as fast as a pure 802.11g network.

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Thanks Stuart, nice set up!
I listened to your advice and it worked!!!! They are both synced up, however somewhere in the setting I seem to get some problems.
I can use both Desktop(LAN only) and Imac (wireless only) to play Airtunes however I realized that the Imac is surfing the net using the Airport Express rather than the Airport Extreme. Hence a very slow surfing experience.
I went back into the Airport Express and set to join an existing network and tried using a different name, so the Imac won't use the Express to do the surfing. Upon resetting the Express, the green light is active which is good news but now I cannot play Airtunes on both my machines. So I guess even with the green light, the Extreme and Express are not linked up. Am I right?
Furthermore I can get my Imac to use the Extreme to surf the net which is ideal but have the problem where I cannot play Airtunes with Express. I think it's because Express is not linked with my Extreme base station.
What I want is for both machines to surf the net at normal fast speed using Extreme, and for Itunes to connect to Express via Extreme and play my music using Airtunes so I can get great music out on my HiFi.
Any solutions, or settings I need to do? Much appreciated for all feedback from members here.
Thanks!

Airport Base Station Agent with AEX

Hi,
I bought an airport express last week and am happily listening to itunes on my home stereo. I noticed that the airport express installation loaded the "airport base station agent" that runs in the system tray. This seems to imply that it is possible to connect a USB drive to the AEX, to the contrary of the imformation provided by Apple. My question is, what is the base station agent for? And if it does not provide any functionality for an airport express alone, why did it install along with the airport utility?
Thanks,
Derek

Hello Cannon Fodder. Welcome to the Apple Discussions!
The primary purpose of the AirPort Base Station Agent is to monitor any changes in the AirPort base station itself or (if enabled) to alert you that a new firmware version is available. It DOES NOT indicate that the AirPort Express Base Station (AX), either the 802.11g or 802.11n version, can support an external HDD attached to its USB port. Sorry!

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