Mac won't accept correct password to Airport Extreme

My two ipads are receiving my airport extremes signal fine; but not my mac. (Had to set up an ethernet extension from Airport to get online) Trashed the system configuration; reset hard and soft the base station; even trashed the airport byhost prefs.
Can't figure out whats up. I enter the correct password; and the window says its incorrect. And no my caps lock is not on; and my keyboard is English

Solution to Airport not accepting password
I simply clicked the wireless network options button; in Airport Settings,
then checked the box for the 5gz wireless network name; to created a 5ghz version of my network; but connected instead to the original network;
don't know how the heck it worked, but it did. I also reentered the password in the wireless tab.

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