First attempt at windows pc connecting to airport express

All pf my macs can connect to my airport express and use the internet. I am trying to connect an IBM thinkpad with windows XP to connect. The laptop cannot see the AX at all ( it does have an infared port) Help!

Chet Durnal wrote:
All pf my macs can connect to my airport express and use the internet. I am trying to connect an IBM thinkpad with windows XP to connect. The laptop cannot see the AX at all ( it does have an infared port) Help!
Ensure that you change the channel on the Airport Express from Automatic to a channel between 1 and 11.
Does the IBM Thinkpad have wireless capability? Infrared is for IR communication.
Ensure that the wireless switch on the IBM is in the ON position.
Problems connecting an XP PC to an Airport Extreme Base Station
http://tech.ifelix.net/2002.html
iFelix

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I really hope someone can help me with this since I have spent 2 days trying to get my new Airport Express to stream music with no luck yet.
I have a wireless network using Netgear WGR614 with WPA security settings. The AE has V6.3 firmware update and I used the Airport Admin 4.2 to set it up. I tried all the recommendations here and connected the AE to the router LAN port using ethernet cable and did a factory default reset. I then configured it to join my existing wireless network providing the WPA details.
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R

Thanks for the response. Here is an update:
I tried to connect to the AE from another windows laptop...and it worked. So it seems that it is only my laptop that cannot connect to the AE. The only difference is that I used my laptop to initially connect to the network created by the AE, and after that I could never get it to connect.
Interestingly, when I did manage to get into the AE and check its log, here is what I find...
Jan 1 00:00:00 5 Configuration updated.
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Jan 1 00:00:15 5 Joined BSS 00:09:5b:fb:7c:7a
Jan 1 00:00:16 5 Installed unicast TKIP key for authenticator 00:09:5b:fb:7c:7a
Jan 1 00:00:30 5 Internet configuration leased (host 192.168.0.3/24 gateway 192.168.0.1 dns1 192.168.0.1 domain innomedia.com lease 7776000).
Jan 1 01:14:29 5 Disassociated with station 00:09:5b:fb:7c:7a (message integrity error).
Jan 1 01:14:38 5 Disconnected from network.
Jan 1 01:15:31 5 Joined BSS 00:09:5b:fb:7c:7a
Jan 1 01:15:31 5 Installed unicast TKIP key for authenticator 00:09:5b:fb:7c:7a
Jan 1 01:16:14 5 Internet configuration leased (host 192.168.0.3/24 gateway 192.168.0.1 dns1 192.168.0.1 domain innomedia.com lease 7776000).
Jan 1 01:27:18 5 Connection accepted from ::ffff:192.168.0.6/1153.
Jan 1 01:27:24 5 Connection accepted from ::ffff:192.168.0.6/1154.
Jan 1 02:35:43 5 Deauthenticated with station 00:09:5b:fb:7c:7a (leaving network).
Jan 1 02:35:43 5 Disconnected from network.
Jan 1 02:35:49 5 Disassociated with station 00:09:5b:fb:7c:7a (message integrity error).
Jan 1 02:35:49 5 Joined BSS 00:00:00:00:00:00
Jan 1 02:35:51 5 Deauthenticated with station 00:09:5b:fb:7c:7a (4-way timeout).
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The administrative access denied is pointing to my laptop, whereas the connection accepted was the other laptop from which everything works. So it seems that the AE is specifically not allowing my laptop to talk to it! Given that my AE is being connected in Client mode, there are no settings I can access to see why it has singled my laptop out.
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3. Cut and paste it to your desktop with its contents
4. Uninstall itunes and Bonjour via your control panel (the desktop file of Bonjour you moved will still be there).
5. Install your new version of itunes, say version 10.5, from the apple website.
6. Before opening it go to program files and cut the (newly installed) Bonjour file and paste it somewhere different to the desktop (you can't just delete it). It does not matter where you won't be needing it.
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Okay, I'm logging this for anyone who might be experiencing the same issue. I kept poking around my system until I found the solution myself.
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Windows 7:
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I have been trying to connect a airport express to my home WIFI connection for the purpose of wirelessly transmitting itunes to my Alfresco area using my iphone as a remote.
The problem i currently have is that the airport does not seem to pick up my wireless broadband.
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Problems with channel id 13:
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I believe this is another (NEW!) issue unrelated to the already described WLAN-battery-performance-drop-down. Furthermore the following may not only apply to 10.5.8 but to 10.5.7, too:
Since there are many (~20) WLAN networks in my neighborhood, I decided to switch to channel 13 (in the AirPort Utility for my Airport Express b/g) in order to minimize interference. This used to work fine.
But since 10.5.8 my intel MacBookPro 15" (Early 2006) does not find my WLAN anymore. It is not listed in the available WLAN-list. When switching Airport off on my MBP and on again, it sometimes finds my WLAN but the connection drops within a minute and I am completely disconnected - too short to get AirPort Utility to connect the Airport Express station (but it can find the Airport Express station for a second or so).
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I tried another WLAN-router (d-link) and this plays well with my 10.5.8 MacBookPro.
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I have not tested with which other channels this occurs.
The "hack" to restore the 10.5.7 IO80211Family.kext did not work. I reinstalled the 10.5.8 combo-update, but that does not help, either.
Note1: In Germany, WIFI channels 1 to 13 are allowed. Maybe, in the USA this is different and Apple did not tested the 10.5.8 Airport with the channels possibly not available in the states?
Note2: My MacBookPro is too old to apply the 10.5.8 Airport-slow-on-battery thingy patch, posted here in the forums.
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Note4: I will post my specs (version of MBP and airport) later, since I am at work right now.
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Carolyn Samit wrote:
HI Samuel,
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Carolyn
Hey Carolyn thank's for your reply!
The Airport Troubleshooting Guide is great. Unfortunately did not help in my case.
(I tried a lot of other things, too. Installing the combo update 10.5.8, resetting PRAM, deleting keychain entries, removing Aiport adapter in the list of network adaptors, removing known networks and so one. Nothing did a change!)
What did help indeed was to plug in the Mac by ethernet cable and configure the Airport Express base station to a different channel. Then it works like charm (again), as you suggested, too.
I tested with another (d-link) wlan (b/g) station and confirmed my first suspicion that it has something to do with the channel and not with the base station or some configuration.
Both, channel 12 and 13 are NOT working, but all others do fine!
This is a bug (introduced in 10.5.8 or maybe 10.5.7, I am not sure?). I repeat, this is a bug and unrelated to the wifi battery issues described by others. I guess I will file a feedback report.
As a work-around, switch to another channel. I am not sure what happens to people who have channel left to "automatic" and the base station changes to 12 or 13 by itself. (Is this technically possible?) I think they will get problems. Definetely.
For completeness, my specs:
Model Name: MacBook Pro 15"
Model Identifier: MacBookPro1,1
Processor Name: Intel Core Duo
Processor Speed: 2 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2
L2 Cache: 2 MB
Memory: 2 GB
Bus Speed: 667 MHz
Boot ROM Version: MBP11.0055.B08
SMC Version (system): 1.2f10
AirPort Card Information:
Wireless Card Type: AirPort Extreme (0x168C, 0x86)
Wireless Card Locale: Worldwide
Wireless Card Firmware Version: 1.4.16.2
Current Wireless Network: Apple Airport Express
Wireless Channel: 1

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