Airport Extreme Seems Unable to Find Non-Apple Wireless Devices-True?

My Airport Extreme does not seem able to find devices other than other Apple devices, eg, Airport Express. Is this a limitation of the Apple? Can't be, right?

rockitdoc wrote:
I downloaded iStumbler, but can't figure out what it does. It looks like it shows me all the networks within range, including mine, but not wireless clients. Is there any literature explaining what this app does?
sorry, i re-read your initial post and i might have been on the wrong track. iStumbler does just that: it scans for networks near you and thus helps you troubleshoot your network in case you get interference.
back to your your problem. i expect the BD player is a blue ray player so see if this thread http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=10649941&#10649941 provides any pointers.
good luck !

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I keep getting this message when I try to setup my time capsule.
"The settings for this Apple wireless device have been successfully updated, but there was a problem re-joining the wireless network or finding the Apple wireless device. You may need to select your network from the AirPort menu and try again."
After this message, the time capsule cannot be seen in the airport utilities at all either, and requires a reset before it becomes visible again. I've tried renaming the network and the time capsule itself to shorter names without punctuation as I'd read sometimes helps, but it doesn't seem to work. I don't have an internet connection set up yet, but that shouldn't be a problem, as I've selected not to connect to the internet for now, and am just wanting to back up my computer for the moment. What is happening here?

probablythestrongest wrote:
I keep getting this message when I try to setup my time capsule.
"The settings for this Apple wireless device have been successfully updated, but there was a problem re-joining the wireless network or finding the Apple wireless device. You may need to select your network from the AirPort menu and try again."
After this message, the time capsule cannot be seen in the airport utilities at all either, and requires a reset before it becomes visible again.
Until you can complete the Time Capsule configuration process, I recommend that you connect it to your Mac with an Ethernet cable instead of depending on a Wi-Fi connection. That would make a lot of sense given the rest of your situation, as it would make your backup process a lot faster.

AirPort Utility is unable to fine any Apple wireless devices.

Just installed Airport Extreme. Went beautifully:
- iMac (OSX 10.5) can connect wirelessly to Internet,
- IBM ThinkPad (XP, SP-2) can connect wirelessly to Internet,
- iMac can print to printer connected to the USB port of the AE
But if I try to administer the AE from IBM ThinkPad rather than from he iMac, though, and the AirPort Utility simply responds that "AirPort Utility is unable to find any Apple wireless devices [RESCAN]. Even though it is currently connected to the Internet using one .
Do I have to join a network or otherwise tell he Windows machine about the AE somehow for it to "see" it? I don't know where to turn.
Apple's doc on this subject is typically nonexistent.
Any help is GREATLY appreciated.

I do not believe that I solve this easily. I have restarted everything, connected directly wtih CAT6, patched my XP, reset the AE, etc. The ThinkPad is a work computer, and I believe that my issue is most likely related to some level of super-firewall-encryption-keep-me-same-from-everything kind of stuff that has been installed by my company, stuff which I am not going to try to find, remove, or shut off just so I can configure the AE from here.
I have an old XP desktop connected to the AE through CAT6 that is able to read and manage the AE's configuration, and of course my iMac sees it perfectly. That will be good enough for now.
Thanks to all who suggested solutions.
KAS

AirPort Utility unable to find any Apple Express devices.

Help! This is getting desperate. I bought an AEX for streaming music to my hifi. Installed it yesterday and it worked on both my desktop (running Vista) and my laptop (running XP). However I was experiencing sound dropouts on the Vista machine so, having researched on this forum, I tried to change a couple of settings in my wireless router (D Link DI524) to try and cure the problem.
My wireless network is still working fine but since making the changes the AirPort Utility software just keeps telling me that it is unable to find any Apple Express devices and I cannot make a connection. It is the same on both my desktop and my laptop.
I can't see why changing security settings in the router should prevent the Utility from connecting with the device as it has to do this during set up anyway to be incorporated into the network. I have tried a full re-set to factory settings but that didn't work. Any ideas? Otherwise this thing is going back to the store.

It's ok. It seems to have cured itself. And downloading Vista Anti Lag has cured the sound drop outs too.

Airport Extreme won't work with non apple products?

this is a recent problem after years on working ok.

You have not given us enough info to say anything. you haven't asked a question.
AE work fine as AP with non-apple clients.
I have multiple phones and wireless devices from numerous brands working with AE and TC.
What you might find is that naming of the AE has become more of a problem.. so you need to use SMB naming.. ie short, no spaces and pure alphanumeric, for the AE itself and the wireless SSID.
You might also find the latest firmware upgrade did nobody any good. If your AE is the flat one, go back to 7.6.1 which IMHO works better.
If your AE is old it could be just faulty.. it might need replacement.
If you want to do things like wireless extend, then there are huge issues with mixing apple and non-apple wireless routers.. but that is not new.. it has been an issues since Apple routers came out.

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Found a possible solution for me.
While the phone was plugged into my computer and iTunes is CLOSED.
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3. Then I right-clicked again and selected "Start".
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5. At the top of Device Manager I clicked the Action menu and selected "Scan for Hardware Changes".
This re-installed the iPhone and everything started working again.

Unable to find apple wireless device

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My connection to the internet was created by a technician from the ISP company who came and fitted everything and for my iMac it appears fine, as I can connect to the internet with my iMac but I am not sure how.
When I try to connect other hardware to the network eg iPod touch and Macbook. When I run the airport utility I get the response that Airport utility was unable to find any Apple wireless device.
I know that it maybe something very easy to fix but does anybody have any ideas, I can't find any suggestion in the Airport extreme user guide.
Look forward to you comments and help.
Thanks

James, welcome to the discussions!
Try the following.
Power down your Extreme.
Temporarily, connect an ethernet cable from one of the LAN <-> ports on the Extreme directly to your computer.
Now open AirPort Utility again and your Extreme should be identified so you can set it up. Once you have it configured, you can disconnect the ethernet cable if your computer will be connecting wirelessly.
Post back on your progress.

Airport utility can't find Apple wireless devices including Time Machine

I have a comcast high speed internet modem that is working, connected by Ethernet to a Time Machine. The Time Machine was working fine until this morning when I tried to reconnect to the internet wirelessly on my PowerBook G4. The Time Machine network wanted a WPA password but wouldn't accept the current password. I then tried to set up Time Capsule in the Time Machine dialog box, but it invoked the airport utility which says it can't find any Apple wireless devices. My Time Machine is now blinking amber at me, and I have tried unplugging, resetting, etc. I am on the internet via hardwire Ethernet connect through the Time Machine to the modem, but cannot get Time Machine to show green and cannot see any wireless devices in airport utility. Any suggestions, please?

set the TC to N+B/G do that using airport Utility. once done power off modem and the router. power on modem first then the router.

Computers do not discover Apple Wireless device

I have tried to connect my TC via Ethernet both to a PC and a new iMac and when running the AirPort Utility, it says it cannot find any Apple wireless devices. I believe when trying different settings when it was working, I set it up as being connected via Ethernet to my network. Ever since, I cannot get the computers to find it. How can I reset it and start from scratch????

I have a similar problem. I am getting a strong signal from the Airport Extreme, but I have lost contact with the backup. Last night I reset the Time Capsule, and it worked. This morning I've lost it again.
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HT3728 AIRPORT UTILITY IS UNABLE TO FIND ANY WIRELESS DEVICE 5.6.1

Ok So I have bought a 2TB Time Capsule, for the past few weeks we have been doing our backups on it etc and just using our already installed Netgear wireless router. Tonight I decided I would "extend an already existing wireless router" - after following all the steps etc and then clicking apply etc, the Airport Utility said that it would need to restart the time capsule etc. After about 5 mins and it looked like it had frozen, airport utility re-started and now all i get is:
"Airport Utility is Unable to find any wireless device. Make Sure the Airport Wireless Device you want to set up is plugged in and in range of your computer, and then click rescan"
I have clicked Rescan like 10 times
I have quit and restarted Airport Utility as well as my Mac OSX 10.5.8
I have pulled the Time Capsule plug out of it and restarted it
I have turned of my airport on my computer and turned it back on again
I have read a number of posts - yet nothing seems to give me any more options other than to rescan.

If you are trying to connect the Time Capsule to the Netgear router using a wireless only connection, Apple's "extend a wireless network" feature was designed to only work with other Apple routers. It is extremely unlikely that this setting would work with a Netgear product.
You will need to start over again and perform a Factor Default Reset on the Time Capsule and then re-configure it back to the original settings that you set up previously.
Resetting an AirPort Base Station or Time Capsule FAQ

"Airport Utility was unable to find your Airport after restarting"

Airport Express B has been working great for two years, and suddenly it can't be found in Airport Utility.
When I hard reset it, and re-set it up again, I go through the whole procedure, using the Utility to write the new settings : "The settings for this Airport Express have been successfully updated...waiting for Airport Express to restart" and at that point nothing happens - the light stays continuously green, no restart, and shortly afterwards I get the failure message "Airport Utility was unable to find your Airport wireless device after restarting".
I come out of Airport Utility, reopen it, and it can't find the Airport Express. Nothing. A £65 brick that has ceased to be, and this forum is full of people with similar problems. I've tried all of the fixes, including hard-wiring it using Ethernet, and again it goes through the whole procedure abut when trying to restart the AE, fails to find it.
Are Apple making any response to these issues ?

Thanks Martin - I can download it from the Apple website, according to this discussion :
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1085243&tstart=30
My concern is that a) it may not work with an Intel MBP, and that it may break my Airport - totally. Could you let me know what you're running it on ?

Airport Utility was unable to find your Airport device after restarting.

- I just updated the firmware on my base station (it a white dome?? i think snow?) to 5.7
- I am running AirPort Utility 5.5.2 (also recently updated)
- I have (3) AirPort Expresses (just updated firmware yesterday) and now are not being seen in the airport utility. They had been running for about two years just fine.
I have done a hard reset and was then able to see the Airport Express and go through set up. Upon finalizing the set up I get this message:
"Airport Utility was unable to find your Airport device after restarting."
This is happening with all 3 AirPort Expresses

Hello !
I had the same kind of problems when I upgraded to the latest version of Airport (5,7).
The Airport express seemed to have been disconnected, and nothing I could do to reconfigure it, after hard resetting it, seemed to be working.
I did two or three hard resets before remembering having been in a situation like that a while ago.
I went back to the Mini, **deactivated the firewall (in the "preferences" panel), then deactivated also the firewall of the Modem/router provided for my internet connection. Then I went in the other room and did another hard reset of the Airport express, came back in the mini's room, opened the Airport utility, the icon of the Airport express was already visible (which wasn't the case before... ), did the re-configuring.
The reconfigured Airport express reappeared very quickly, then I reactivated the firewalls of the Mini and the router. Voilà !
It took less than two minutes !
And since then the Mini have been streaming music without a glitch to the Airport express.
I hope this will help you and others !

"Airport Utility was unable to find your airport wireless device"

I recently bought an Airport Extreme to replace a D-Link DGL4300. My network is as follows: DSL > Modem > Airport Extreme > Ethernet and Wireless clients (wireless clients include my iMac and my wife's MacBook). This worked fine for about 2 weeks, until my wife's MacBook started having connectivity issues. I did a soft reset on the Airport Extreme, and . . . poof. No internet for anyone. I did a hard reset and used the saved profile that had previously worked (for at least my computer), and after the Airport Extreme restarted, I received the dreaded "Airport Utility was unable to find your airport wireless device". I have repeated this cycle several times with complete power-downs of the modem, the Airport Extreme and all clients, with no change in result.
What's odd is that even though Airport Utility can't find the Airport Extreme, my home network works fine (i.e., all clients can talk to an internal media server and each other), but there is no internet at all. Any ideas?

Alex Fisch wrote:
"Airport Utility was unable to find your airport wireless device"
Until you can complete the configuration process, try connecting your Mac to the AirPort Extreme with an Ethernet cable to see if that allows AirPort Utility to see the Extreme.

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After connecting the Hard Drive to the airport extreme, where can I find the File Location (to access my files from my Hard drive)

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Trying to set up time capsule but keep getting message stating airport utility was unable to find any airport wireless device. What do I do know?

Trying to set up my time capsule on my imac.
Keep getting message "Airport utility was unable to find any airport wireless devices."
What do I do now?
joglenn

When having difficulties accessing the Time Capsule (TC) via the AirPort Utility, try the following, in order checking accessibility with the utility after each step:
Check the local connection. If you are trying to access the TC wirelessly, make sure that you are connected to its wireless network before running the AirPort Utility to administer it. If you are still unable to access it with the utility, temporarily connect your computer directly using an Ethernet cable to one of the TC's LAN ports.
Power cycle the base station. Remove the power adapter's plug from the power outlet, and then, wait 15 seconds before plugging it back in.
Perform a "factory default" reset on the base station.
Finally, if you are attempting to access the TC via an Ethernet connection, be sure that your Ethernet port is NOT configured for Jumbo Frames, i.e., using an MTU of 9000+.

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