Intel Macbook and Airport management Utility

I am trying to set up airport management utility on
my new Intel Macbook Pro. I have downloaded the
utility and attempted to open it and get an error
stating that it requires Airport 3.4. The update
doesn't work and I believe I must have the latest
Airport update. Might this be an Intel Mac issue?
Yes.
Airport Management Tool on Intel Macs
Download the AirPort 4.1 install from here:
http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/airport41formacosx.html
1. Open the .dmg if it did not auto-open.
2. Control-click "AirPortSW.pkg" and select "Show Package Contents"
3. Open Contents
4. Drag Archive.pax.gz to the Desktop
5. Double-click Archive.pax.gz to unarchive the file
6. AirPortConfig.framework is in ~/Desktop/Archive/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks
7. Drag AirPortConfig.framework to /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/
You will be asked to authenticate.
Airport Management Tool should work at this point.
iFelix

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check this link:
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7. AirPortConfig.framework is in ~/Desktop/Archive/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks
8. Drag AirPortConfig.framework to /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/ You will be asked to authenticate.
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I put this post last November, but no one seemed to have a solution to it, so I thought I would try again...
Our lab has and Airport Extreme (802.11g). Intermittently (once a week to a couple of times a day) our airport extreme will stop allowing new connections. Here's what appears to happen. The airport still appears in the the list of networks in the airport icon in the menu bar (ie it still broadcasts SSID), but when I try to connect it whirls for a while and then says connection timed out. If I go to the Airport Admin Utility the base station doesn't appear there even though all of the rest of the ones on our network do (I should at this point, mention that we have both ethernet and WiFi layers on our network--the base station operates as an access point in bridge mode). The only solution is to power cycle the base station. A couple of extra tidbits.
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* We never have more than about 8 users connected to the base station.
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* Sometimes this seems to fix itself after 30 minutes or so of just ignoring it. Other times it does not.
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Two reasons I don't think that this is likely the issue. Both are based on my assumptions about how noise would affect the working of a WAP. If these assumptions are erroneous, please let me know.
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