Add Wireless Clients

the Airport Express Menu describes a means to 'add wireless clients' from the Airport Utilities Base Station Menu; it says "Choose Add Wireless Clients from the Base Station Menu". Well, there is no such choice available on any screen I can find. My goal is to allow "first attempt" access for a digital frame device (which apparently won't transmit the proper password, something I've tried about a dozen times).
Any help/ideas out there?? Thanks in advance, Ron

I assume you meant "Airport Express manual" (or maybe Online Help, but not "menu.")
In OSX 10.3.9, anyway, the Airport Admin Utility provides a WDS tab. The tools needed to add wireless clients are on this tab.
But you shouldn't need to do this. A wireless client is another base station, such as a second AE. Your digital frame device is just something with a wireless card.
Have you tried disabling wireless security via the Utility's Airport tab? This should solve the password problem for the moment and let you see whether there are other problems awaiting.
Later, you can seek a long-term solution to the password mystery. Perhaps, for example, your AE is set for WPA encryption but your frame device can only do WEP.

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P.S.: sorry for my "broken" english
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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4260
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yes, I said a PC... ARE YOU LISTENING APPLE?
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