Adding clients to our wireless network

We just added airport express as our wireless router and need help adding our windows xp laptops to the network. I do not see "add wireless clients from the base station menu" and our laptops do not recognize any apple wireless devices. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

boeeandme wrote:
I have selected 802.11b/g compatible. The network does not come up in when searching for available networks.
The advice I gave you applied to SP2 (at least) of Windows XP. I'll guess that those laptops are at least up to SP2 if not SP3. The only other issue would be whether you've configured AirPort's "Wireless Options" panel to "Create a closed network". That would prevent the AirPort unit from broadcasting its "SSID" and would require that you enter the name of the network when trying to connect. I can't tell you how to reach a screen on XP where you'd do that, but it shouldn't be hard to try that approach.
One other thought: What encryption option have you declared? If you're trying to use WPA2 and those laptops are sufficiently old, it may be that they don't support WPA2. Try turning off encryption temporarily to see if the laptops can connect.
Do I need to install airport express on the laptops?
No. I wouldn't expect that to help.
I do appreciate your help.
You'd probably be more appreciative if I could give you advice that helped!

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http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2494172
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lllaassJan 6, 2015 2:12 PM Re: My husband has a Mac mini, vintage 2009, running Snow Leopard. All other computers and devices in the house are able to connect to our wireless network, but since I upgraded his computer to Snow Leaopard it won't connect. What is the problem?
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