How do I get airport express to work again?
I get a message that I need to download Airport utility 5.6 for lion, which I have done. When I try to install the download, I get to the destination point on the menu, and there is a yellow triangle over the HD icon which says that the download is unsupported. On top of that, this is an Airport Express base station that had worked on this exact same system for several years. I took it out of the house to try to use it somewhere else, and that is where the trouble started. When I brought the system home, I had the same failure to connect with the base station. I have executed the reset steps many times, and am at a loss about how to proceed.
Well, a situation like this is sometimes called a Catch 22.
The version of AirPort Utility that you have on your Lion or Mountain Lion operating system no longer supports the older version of AirPort Express that you have.
AirPort Utility 5.6 for Lion will only work on a Mac running Lion up to the 10.7.2 version. If you are running anything higher than 10.7.2 Lion, or Mountain Lion.......Apple will not allow you to install AirPort Utility 5.6 using their normal installer.
There are two solutions supported by Apple:
1) Use another Mac or PC that is using a 5.x version of AirPort Utility to configure the Express
2) Replace the older AirPort Express with a new AirPort Express....likely what Apple really wants you to do.
A possible solution that might work......not supported by Apple, so there are no guarantees here..... is to install AirPort Utlity 5.6 on your Mac using a workaround to bypass Apple's installer.
ff you think that you might want to give this try.....I am not recommending it, simply pointing out that it exists.....take a look at this thread:
https://discussions.apple.com/message/21397085#21397085
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