Airport Extreme card switched off

After upgrading from 10.4 to 10.5 my Macbook Pro Airport Extreme does not function at all, obviously because the Airport card is turned off. As far as I know, I haven´t done this on purpose. I have not been able to find out how to get it back to work. Where is the on/off switch?
Sorry about my stupidity...
JanteroW, Finland

There is no way to "program" the Extreme to turn off it's WiFi signal. You can limit children's Internet access:
http://www.macworld.com/article/1161672/limit_internet_access.html
An alternative would be to just turn off the Extreme at the wall.

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Can the wireless function be programmed to switch off and back on at certain times? Being a paranoid parent, I would rather not have a wireless signal radiating in my house all night.

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http://www.macworld.com/article/1161672/limit_internet_access.html
An alternative would be to just turn off the Extreme at the wall.

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Hi,
I was trying to install an AirPort Extreme card on my G5 iMac...where I couldn't physically pull the tip of the antenna off the gray plastic base...
I tried turning it to the right and left, but it didn't help me out. Seems like I need a knack or something??
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This Apple Support Document will provide some ideas to minimize wireless interference:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1365
The first obvious thing to try is to move the AirPort Extreme as far away as possible from the headphones. You can use virtually any length of Ethernet cable to physically connect the AirPort Extreme to your modem.
After that, the next best bet is to experiment with a different 2.4 GHz Channel setting by manually trying different channels.
If the interference persists, you may be forced into trying a different manufacturer of headphones, or abandon the BlueTooth communications.
A few years ago, I had to replace my cordless phones at the house for the same type of reason. Whenever the phone would ring....the wireless signal would crash.

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the power logix thing was really sad. apple changed so much after 10.4.8 that there wasn't a viable way to patch the software.
That statement is precisely why I don't believe in blindly updating the OS, especially in a non-standard machine.
We can't expect third parties to support us forever, and it is shameful to break something that works fine, except that we updated the OS....
I think that any upgrade or modification to a machine or the OS greatly increases the risk of trouble or incompatibility with current configuration and "new" system files.
After all, the component or software could only be tested as far as the current OS version when the component or software was released.
Beyond that, we are all "beta testing".
Following a beta tester protocol, and applying updates to a cloned system drive first, is a prudent way to approach updates, and not only for older, heavily modified machines.
After 10.4.8 and moreso with Leopard, the focus is primarily on Intel architecture, not PPC architecture.
Like it or not, we are all updating to the abyss of the extinction of our machines, unless we can be satisfied with the last stable version of OS that works well with our hardware and software.
I wish they would include the latest pkgs at least with software update.
Yes, having individual packages, rather than lump "OS X 10.x.x" updates would be nice.
This way, one could update as one sees fit. That is to say, for example, fix the Quicktime, but leave my Network alone, etc., etc.
In all fairness, Apple does provide for some breakdown of updates, but I believe there is much room for improvement, especially, as you point out, with regard to the core services portion of the OS.
Until then, I'll leave Software Update disabled.......

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I've had my MacBook Pro since mid August with a built Airport Extreme Card. It has for most of the time been working fine with my Netgear router. Yesterday it just stopped working. The black bars aren't showing on the aiport, it keeps refusing to accept the WEP password.
I have tried switching the airport on and off, and have also switched off the router and re started it, all to no avail. The WEP password is correct.
I have a WIFI printer connection and the airport will not connect to that either.
This has happened once before about 6 weeks ago but I can't remember what I did, if anything, to remedy the situation.
I have 3 other laptops all working perfectly well on the system, and all printing from the printer without any problems.
Any suggestions before I and the laptop go hurtling through the first floor window?

Hello MiBy. Welcome to the Apple Discussions!
I've had my MacBook Pro since mid August with a built Airport Extreme Card. It has for most of the time been working fine with my Netgear router. Yesterday it just stopped working. The black bars aren't showing on the aiport, it keeps refusing to accept the WEP password.
Try resetting your MBP's PRAM ...
Reset the PRAM
o Shut down the computer.
o Turn on the computer.
o Press and hold the Command-Option-P-R keys. You must press this key combination before the gray screen appears.
o Hold the keys down until the computer restarts and you hear the startup sound for the second time.
o Release the keys.
(ref: Resetting your Mac's PRAM and NVRAM)

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Hey, as I was in the process of moving out, I thought I would get an airport extreme card for my iBook. I did such, and installed it. I am now in an appartment with a 'wi/fi' certified wireless router. My buddy gets wireless in a snap on his Windows Laptop, but I can't seem to connect.
My card is installed and the computer sees it, but all I can manage to get is a computer to computer network!
Can anybody help me set it up for wireless internet so I don't have to connect through the LAN cable when I have an airport card installed?
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Happy threading..
DP

Hi and Welcome to discussions!
Can your iBook 'see' the wireless network? If not then SSID is switched off at the router, (a good thing to do as it's not broadcasting its existence to all & sundry). Although if you can network the computers that probably isn't the case.
Some info from the AirPort
Extreme Card User’s Guide
"To join an AirPort wireless network, choose a network from the AirPort status icon in the menu bar. Enter the password for the network if necessary. If you are joining a closed network, choose Other from the list, and then type the name and password of the network.
Note: To show AirPort status in the menu bar, open System Preferences and click Network. Choose AirPort from the Show pop-up menu, then click AirPort. Select the “Show AirPort status in menu bar” checkbox."
Run Software update first to make sure that you have got the Airport SW.
Have a read through the manual at the above link and see how you get on.
Have you tried the 'Assistant', from Network Prefs? That should walk you through it.
Good Luck!

How to setup a network setup with an airport extreme card in a mac pro

I have installled an airport extreme card in my mac pro. Restarted the mac. The AP black triangle appears on right top of the screen. If I activate the AP than the a light grey triangle appears, with grey bars. I can create a network, than the triangle becomes dark grey with an kind of black computer icon in the grey area. The signal strength shows all blue bars.
I have two other wireless networks (linksys and another for streaming music) both are working and detected by my imac. But the mac pro does not detect these networks.
I would have thought that the two networks would be detected automatically.
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You won't believe this, but the card is a crock. Mine was installed by an Apple tech at an Apple store. He obviously did not check out reception.
At home, I tried setting this up right next to a Netgear wireless router (2 feet away!), and got no signal bars. Yet I pull the cover off the machine and I get 4 bars and can connect to an 802.11g network. This stinks. What idiot at Apple designed a card where the antenna is a 1" square piece of metal? Could this be an emi cage? Where did they hide the so-called "built-in" antenna. Who knows?
See if you can aim the back of the machine toward the wireless router. There is a back door into this mother, through the fan(ny) opening.

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I have an iMac G4/1.25 17-Inch "FP" with Airport Extreme capability but NO Airport Extreme card.
I just want to stream iTunes music to the stereo buying Airport Express ( no internet wireless connection needed).
Is this possible or I have to install the Airport Extreme card inside the iMac?
Thanks
piero

ziopiero,
There are probably ways to do this but you would have to be wired via Ethernet cable(s)... and apparently you are already connected to the Internet via an ethernet cable. You would then need a hub, router, or a switch etc. if you don't already have one of these. If you stereo is in another room, then your ethernet cable would also have to be connected there.
Your easiest, and probably cheapest method, is to purchase the Airport Extreme Card. You can even buy these refurbished from the Apple Store under "Deals" and are very reasonable.

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The signal strength meter in the menu bar or in Internet Connect is greyed out and the connection cannot be made -- eventually it gets to the point where the G5 cannot even remember any of my precvious connections. The Macwireless.com widget shows the connection and signal strength as bouncing from 0 to about 70% for all connections that are still recognized, with each location bouncing from the top of the list to the bottom and then sometimes disappearing altogether. After a short while the locations don't reappear... Once they're gone, they're pretty much gone without a trace (Airport Admin either cannot connect to the Airport, telling me an error occurred while trying to access it, or it doesn't see anything to get an error message from).
My G4 sits right next to the G5 and has shown no problems. Strangely, after a full day trying to troubleshoot this, the G5 started up today at full signal strength -- I'm using it now to write this message! Nothing has changed on this machine in the past week, except for me trying to get the Airport Extreme Card to function as it had for the month or two I've had it. Yesterday I lost connection altogether -- neither restarting the Mac nor a full shut down, wait a minute or two, restart would restore my connection. At one point, I shut down the machine for about an hour while I reseated the AE Card and let the computer become room temp (roughly 70 F). Still no go...
After eliminating all the variables I could think of, I've come to the conclusion that the Airport card is probably bad -- possibly malfunctioning with heat build-up (?). Problem is, how do I show this problem to a tech? Especially since it's a half-hour drive to the closest Apple store and longer to a third-party Apple repair shop. And knowing that once it's been off for a while and is on a workbench, it will behave like all intermittently faulty equipment and work perfectly. :-/
If anyone has trouble shooting suggestions, or can help me determine for sure that the card is the problem, please help!

Hi Julia,
Well, the card may have problems too, but I now think there's a software problem as others have suggested. It's odd because everything seemed fine for some time after applying the updates, so it appeared as if the card was bad or going bad. For me, I spent three days trying everything I could, including removing and re-seating the card, antenna wire and antenna, trying various configurations, resetting the Airport itself and so on. All to no avail.
On the last day, I had the strangest situation, where Mail could not see the Airport and could connect to nothing, but Safari was able to access the Internet! I used Safari to access sites I hadn't visited in months just to be sure I wasn't seeing cached versions of the pages... Eventually though, Safari lost contact, and that was it for the day.
After all that, the next day I turned on the Mac to see a solid connection that's been stable ever since except for the incident in my previous post where the Airport widgets knocked the connection out. Turning off those Widgets and closing Dashboard brought the connection back up immediately -- I haven't tried them again, and probably won't!.
Once I had the solid connection, I used Onyx to repair permissions, optimise the System and to empty the Network cache. I also deleted the various Locations I'd set up in the Network Preferences to get it back to just the one connection to choose from. If you're comfortable with Onyx (or Cocktail or one of the other utilities) you could try at least clearing the cache(s) and repairing permissions.
Have you tried a complete shut down and leaving the computer off overnight? Do you have anything set to open on startup that may try to connect with the Internet (like Mail or Safari)? Try removng them from your Startup Items (you can do this from the Dock -- click and hold on the icon and a mini menu should pop up with that option).
Have you looked at the info in System Profiler, and does it show the Airport card? (you can access System Profiler from the About This Mac item in the Apple Menu and clicking the button: More Info...) The card should show up under Network>Airpport Card.
Since you have a Powerbook, you have the option to take your computer to an Apple tech (Apple Genius at an Apple store, or to a dealer with a repair crew) and have them troubleshoot it. My guess is they'll end up reinstalling your OS and/or replacing the card... My G5 is far too heavy for me to throw it in the car -- and I found out the hard way yesterday that my computer is just 2 weeks out of warranty, so I'm ineligible for AppleCare. grrr... (my fault, but grrr...)
Let us know if anything good happens -- best of luck!

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Are there any hardware tests that can be performed on it?
At a higher level, is there anything I can do to diagnose problems with connections to an Access Point? (I don't have an Airport base station, unfortunately, I recall there being lots of tools for this).
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Don, thanks for the reply.
In this case, it's not a problem with my ISP, as I can access Internet sites from other systems connected to my wireless/LAN router that are connected on the LAN.
It's not a problem with the wireless side of the wireless router, as I can connect from other wireless systems.
I do have problems where resetting the router is the only cure, but this isn't one of them!
The symptoms I was having on the Mac side were:
a) I saw only grey bars in the signal strength status icon - i.e. useless signal.
b) I clicked it, and did 'Turn AirPort off', then 'on' again - this usually 'kicks' most problems.
c) this didn't result in a good connection - Internet Connect showed that the AirPort Extreme card was connecting to the correct network and base station ID, then disconnecting after a few seconds.
(Similar to that discussed at
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=380635 )
It looked like my AirPort Extreme had developed a fault (gone 'deaf')... I opened the iBook, reseated the card, clicked the antenna lead back in, but this had no effect.
At this stage, I was ready to take the iBook into the Regent St. Genius Bar, but out of desperation, re-entered the connection details / WPA personal password in System Preferences.... and it all started working!
So I don't currently have a problem, but would like to know if there is any hardware diagnostic for the card, so I can rule out hardware fault in future.
Regards,
Matt
iBook G4 ~900MHz Mac OS X (10.3.4)

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I just recently purchased a Mac Mini with the Airport Extreme Card, and was able to manage to get it to work to share my Internet connection with my husband's Airport enabled iBook G3...for a few days, and now it appears that the network I created is no longer available.
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Yeah, I made sure that I did that. It is odd that the machine won't even turn on with the card installed. I don't see how it could affect the power.

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