Airport card wont connect

I just recently got this 15 inch G4 Powerbook and the Airport card is acting funny. I can connect to a wireless router but whenever I try to access the net the signal immediately drops and reconnects over and over, and I am unable to get online. It does this even when I am two feet away from the router. All my other computers including other Mac laptops work fine.

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Airport Extreme Card wont connect to D-Link DIR-615 (wireless N router)

Hi, I got an old Mac G5 that has the airport extreme card in it and can't connect to the internet through with my D-Link DIR-615. I tried a couple options on a MAC but didn't work. I have a Laptop running Windows Vista and had no problem connecting. I'm using WPA for security and my password has 31 characters. Do you guys think That I have to change the length of my password to 26 or even less? Is there any guide that you guys may know that cuold help me on this issue?
Thanks a lot.
Masrocha

Password
40-bit hex
40-bit ASCII
128-bit hex
128-bit ASCII
LEAP
This would be telling me that your G5's AirPort is NOT "seeing" the D-Link's wireless network as encrypted with WPA, but with WEP instead. This typically can be caused by either the D-Link's current configuration is incompatible with the AirPort card or that there is something amiss with the AirPort card itself.
BTW, My D-Link has WEP, WAP-Personal and WAP-Enterprise
Ok, we will want to stick with either WEP or WPA-Personal.
We now have two choices: 1) Continue to troubleshoot additional configuration changes to the D-Link to try to get WPA to work with your G5, or 2) Switch to the lower strength encryption: WEP.
Which would you prefer to try?

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ok so I just reformatted my brother I-book G4 and started with a clean slate, 10.3.9 OSX I am trying to connect the airport extreme that is in the computer to the linksys network I have set up. I have a Imac with an intel processor and a powerbook g4 titainium the Imac is using the internal wireless that it came with and the powerbook is using a linksys wireless card through the slot on the side.
I am using WPA2 personal on the network and both of these computers connect just fine through the password. the I book will not allow me to even bring up WPA2 personal as an option. it recognizes the network and I can click it but will not except the password because the only option is WEP of different types. how do I get around this and get it on the network?
I bought a external USB wireless card for it but it wont even recognize that either.
also the computer will not boot up with the airport card taken out of the computer which I found very odd. what is up with that?

Copied from apple's support:
To set up a WPA2 Personal network:
1. Open AirPort Utility, located in the Utilities folder in the Applications folder on a Mac, and in Start > All Programs > AirPort on a computer using Windows.
2. Select your base station, and then choose Manual Setup from the Base Station menu. Enter the base station password if necessary.
3. Click AirPort in the toolbar, and then click Wireless.
4. Choose WPA/WPA2 Personal from the Wireless Security pop-up menu if you want computers compatible with WPA and WPA2 to join your network. Choose WPA2 Personal if you want only computers compatible with WPA2 to join your network.
5. Enter an ASCII password of 8 to 63 ASCII characters.

Airport extreme wont connect to computer it was setup on

I setup the base station on my girlfriends computer, IBM thinkpad t42, with a WPA/WPA2 personal password. I can connect to the router through my computer using a wireless card but she cannot. It constantly says aquiring network address but never connects. the airport utility doesnt recognize the router on her computer either after the password is entered. she can connect to it when the router has no password attached. what can I do?

What do you mean "wont connect"?

Slightly damaged airport card, unstable connection, & malloc errors? Fixes?

Hello!
I've got a 500 mhz iMac G3, running 10.3.9 with 256 MB of ram - and may add more soon. It has an original Airport card installed, via the Airport adapter. This card has a dent in one of the sides, but seems to power on fine.
Here's the problem: if I click on the Airport symbol in the menu bar, the iMac can see our home network with the Airport card installed - so I know the card is at least working in this regard. If I select the network and enter the WEP key, it sits there for a moment before giving a "There was an error connecting to the AirPort network * SSID *." box. Clicking "Try again" hasn't helped. Interestingly, the "Console.log" log shows a list of malloc errors:
"* malloc[@@@]: error for object 0x3----0: Double free", where the dashes are various hex values, and the @@@ differs by application: Attempting to connect via Internet Connect gives a @@@ of 385, while attempting to connect via Network Setup Assistant gives a @@@ of 329, and attempting to connect via the airport menu bar icon gives a @@@ of 208. These errors seem to appear when I type the WEP key in.
To see if the airport card was broadcasting, I tried to setup a computer-to-computer network from the iMac, then connect to it from my G4 (400mhz, Tiger, 1.5 GB RAM, Original Airport card). The network initialized OK, but the G4 could not see it. Entering the SSID manually into the Internet Connect application still gave a "There was an error connecting to SSID" box. I then noticed that the iMac kept "disconnecting" and "reconnecting" to its own network every 10 seconds or so, as if the Airport card kept resetting. I also tried creating a network on the G4, then connecting to it from the iMac to see if it could join and if the malloc errors kept showing up - it coudn't join or see the network, but there were no malloc errors in the console!
This is the same problem that occurred when I put the card into another old iMac. Therefore, I believe that it's a problem with the individual card, not the system. At the same time, the fact that the memory allocation errors occur when I enter the WEP key - and not at other times - is a little odd. I've assumed that the dent in the card was the problem before, but now I'm beginning to suspect a firmware issue with the card itself.
So, the questions:
A. Is there a firmware update for the card?
B. Is there anything else I can try? I will try to setup an open network to test the card then.
C. If the damage to the card is the culprit, then the card is useless and must be replaced, correct?
D. Is there somewhere I can find an original airport card for (well) under the $150 or so you usually find it online? I am aware that they are old and hard to find.
Thanks a bunch,
-Dan

See my post about using the WaveLan card out of an old graphite "flying saucer" Airport Base Station. My iMac accepted one as an Airport card. The old ABSes are cheap since they don't work with new releases of OS X any more.

Airport Card not connecting to existing network

New to wireless and to these forums, although i have found them useful in the past this is my first posting.
I have just installed a new airport extreme card into my imac, prior to this i installed the software.
the airport card seems fine, the mac recognises it, it does not however see the wireless router. (netgear dg834pn). The router is configured ok as my laptop (Macbook Pro) and my wifes laptop (dell pc) work fine with it.
how do i make the imac see the network?
any help would be appreciated.

ukdave, Welcome to the discussion area!
Verify that the antenna wire is properly connected to the AirPort Extreme card. Compare you installation to the photos in KB 108039, Properly attaching the antenna on an AirPort Extreme Card.
Also... is there any chance that you have installed an AirPort Extreme card from the US? The US cards only recognize channels 1-11. If your Netgear is using channels 12 or 13 try changing it to a channel between 1 and 11.

Airport extreme wont connect to my d-link DI-624 router--WHY!?!?

OK-- i have a d-link DI-624 wireless router hooked up to my ethernet router on my imac g4/ 800mhz gooseneck. i have a mac book pro with airport extreme-- when i set up a closed network with WEP i could log in the password, get a strong signal and connect via the airport card but when i tried to open safari, it said i wasn't connected to the internet. when i made it an open network, no problem. why can i join the closed network, get a signal, but not connect to the internet.
i tried the network setup assistant but no luck. any ideas? i am new to wireless routers so any suggestions as to why this is happening and how to solve would be greatly appreciated!

...when i set up a closed
network...
Don't do that. Disabling the broadcast of the SSID
(network name) may make you feel secure but it is a
false sense of security. The network name is still
broadcast and easily detected.
Why do you have 2 routers? Why not replace your
"ethernet router" with the DI-624? It will support
both Ethernet and wireless clients.
So are you saying I should just leave the network open? I don't mind sharing my wi-fi connection but I want my computers to be secure. I set it up to have WEP so I could share with friends. I still don't understand why my airport card in my macbook pro will pick up the open network but not the closed (even though i can log the WEP and it shows maximum signal strength).
Will the settings on OS X Tiger's firewall be the most effective or do i need to configure the wireless router's firewall as well?
I am a newbie to wireless routers and to answer your question about two routers, I was following what the directions from the DI-624 manual said to do. What you are saying makes total sense in that respect.
imac g4 800mhz Mac OS X (10.4.8) 768mb RAM

A1irport card wont connect to Dlink DIR-615

I'm having exactly the same problem as described in this archived thread.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1690175&tstart=0
In my case, I have an original Airport card installed in an iMac G3 400. I can see my network and attempt to connnect to it but it never connects and says "there was an error joining "network name"". The thread above did not seem to offer any resolution to the problem. Does anyone have any ideas? I have the router set to allow connections to b, g, and n networks (I have a newer iMac to with an n card installed so need that).

Did you try turning OFF security on the router temporarily? Get it working without security, then turn it back ON.
Also, if security is turned ON, are you using the WPA security protocol? Most 802.11b AirPort cards support WPA under Mac OS X, but the earliest ones do not. They all support the earlier WEP protocol.
You may also want to reset the router. They often have a recessed button you can press to reset it. First, get the iMac to connect to router (that is using its default settings). Then, if any special settings are needed for your setup, change them. If the iMac stops connecting at some point, at least you know what setting change caused the issue.

Airport extreme wont connect

i reinstalled my OS on the laptop [windows xp]
btw all was woking fine prior to the OS reinstall
the internal wireless sees the networks, but it wont connect.
running diagnostics all passes up to the association tests, that fails.
Dell run thru a series of downloads, etc trying to find the problem, but no luck.
i casn use dell pay service to try to solve the problem, but thats my last resort, because i dont know if it a software, apple, or cable issue.
any suggestions?

Hello NYGramps. Welcome to the Apple Discussions!
I assume that your Dell laptop can access the Internet when connected directly to the 802.11n AirPort Extreme Base Station (AEBSn) by Ethernet ... correct?
If so, can the laptop "see" and access other wireless network and just not the one provided by your AEBSn?

Macbook Pro Airport Card looses connection if not running a continuous network ping

Okay, I have a crazy issue going on.
Since I upgraded to Mountain Lion, soon after my Airport Card started disconnecting from any network and I would have to turn it off/on to get it working again and then it would die about 45 seconds later. This repeats over and over. I have found that if I run a continuous ping to something else on the network it will stay live and not disconnect. So, my Airport Card will stay connected if I run a continuous ping, but without it it will die every time. What the heck is going on? Did Mountain Lion put something in the firmware on my Airport card that is messing it up? I have done fresh installs many times and downgraded to lion and snow lepard and still the same issue. Is my Wifi Nic just dead or is this some other issues like the antenna? I have a new Wifi Nic in route from China but I want to make sure I finish running through all other possibilities before it arrives.
Thank you
Kevin Monette

I'm sure you meant to post in the appropriate forum. This area is for MBP (Original). You want MacBook Pro (Late 2008 and Early 2009) here:
http://discussions.apple.com/category.jspa?categoryID=190
1. Try typing a $ before your password, so $password.
2. Proximity to your router without walls in the way is helpful for proper signal. Proper orientation of your router is also helpful.

Original Airport Card: Intermittent connection to internet

I have a wireless (netgear router) home network that has been running fine for over a year. Two dell laptops and Two iMac computers connect wirelessly w/o problems. Last week the iMac (original G4 FlatPanel) with airport card located in the basement start dropping the network (no network detected). All other machines still work fine. The laptop taken into the basement work fine.
The original iMac shows the airport power "on" but no network to connect to? Laptop show network and good signal strength. Next time I check the iMac, its connected with excellent signal. Next time....gone! This has been ongoing on for over a week now. As of late it's see no networks (there's 3 in my neighborhoos - mine and 2 others)
Is it interference? Faulty Airport card? Gremlins?
Any suggestions? Thanks!

If you move the G4, having the problem, to another location nearer your router does it still exhibit these problems? You mentioned that if you tried with one of your Dell laptops, at the same location as the G4, it's working fine...correct?
I'm leaning toward your AirPort card in the G4 is failing vs. interference as the cause of your intermittent connections.

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Airport express wont connect to internet

i cant get my airport express to connect to the internet

I would recommend that you do the following as a minimum:
Power-down the modem, AirPort base station, and computer(s).
Power-up the modem; wait at least 10-15 minutes to allow it adequate time to initialize.
Power-up the AirPort base station; wait at least 5-10 minutes. Note: The AirPort's status light may continue to flash amber after it has intialized. That is because, there may be some additional configuration items necessary, like setting up wireless security, before the overall setup is completed to get a green status.
Power-up your computer(s).
If the above steps do not solve the problem, start over with step 1 above, but then perform the next steps between steps 1 & 2. above.
Disconnect the AirPort base station from the Internet broadband modem.
While all of the devices are powered-down, perform a "factory default" reset on the base station. This will get it back to its "out-of-the-box" configuration and make setting it up much easier, especially if you use the "Assist me" process within the AirPort Utility. (ref: Resetting an AirPort Base Station or Time Capsule)
After the base station resets, go ahead and power it back down.
Reconnect the AirPort base station to the Internet broadband modem. For the Extreme and Time Capsule, be sure to connect the cable to the base station's WAN (circle-of-dots) port.
Continue with step 2 in the first set of steps.
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Macbook2.1, OS 10.4.8, Airport Extreme wont connect to Actiontec GT701-WG

I can't get my macbook to connect to Qwest-DSL wireless gateway modem (Actiontec GT701-WG). A Dell laptop connects without any problems. I've tried a number of things: WEP, no WEP, Access lists. I've recycled the Actiontec, rebooted the macbook, etc. No luck.
Airport sees the network but when trying to connect I get "There was an error joining the Airport network Home". When running Network Diagnostics I do get something in /var/log/system.log:
/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Apple80211.framework/Resources/airport:Error:W irelessAssociate2() = 88001006 for network Home
I've been through both Qwest and Apple support and they are pointing fingers at each other. Any ideas out there?
Thanks
Macbook2,1 Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Let's double-check both your Actiontec & AirPort settings.
For the Actiontec:
Wireless Settings
- Wireless: On
- ESSID: ACTIONTEC
- Channel: 1
- Security: Off
Wireless MAC Authentication
- Enable Access List: unchecked
LAN IP Address
- Device IP Address: 192.168.0.1
- Device LAN Netmask: 255.255.255.0
DHCP Server
- On (enabled)
- Beginning IP Address: 192.168.0.2
- Ending IP Address: 192.168.0.254
- SubnetMask: 255.255.255.0
- DNS: Dynamic (enabled)
Services Blocking
- All options should be blank.
Website Blocking
- All options should be blank.
NAT (Network Address Translation)
- On (enabled)
...and for the Mac's AirPort Extreme Card:
System Preferences > Network > Show > Network Port Configurations
- Verify that an AirPort option exists. If it does not, click "New" to create one. - Verify that AirPort is "On" (checked)
- Verify that AirPort is at the top of the list. If it isn't, you can drag it to the top.
Systems Preferences > Network > Show > AirPort
AirPort tab
- By default, join: Automatic
TCP/IP tab
- Configure IPv4: Using DHCP
- Configure IPv6: Automatically
Proxies tab
- Configure Proxies: Manually
- Select a proxy server to configure: <All proxies should be unchecked unless you specifically require a proxy for Internet access.>
- Exclude simple hostnames (unchecked)
- Bypass proxy settings for these Hosts & Domains: <leave blank>
- Use Passive FTP Mode (PASV) (checked)
First try connecting your Mac directly, using an Ethernet cable, to one of the Actiontec's LAN ports. Can you access the Internet? If so, disconnect the Mac from the Actiontec, and try again wirelessly. Can you still connect?

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