New macbook cannot join network

I have an imac that is connected to the internet via airport extreme base station. My service provider is Surewest fiberoptic which is connected directly to the base station. No problems getting online with imac. I just bought a macbook and cannot configure it to join my network. I have the settings on the imac airport to "no security", but when I try to join network it says that my network needs a password. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I have exactly the same problem. Even more, I had the Airport Extreme protected with a password and my iBook would connect to the network with no problem with the password. But then I decided to eliminate the password and to have free access to the network, but the MacBook is still prompting for a password.
Any clues?
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Noble Seven wrote:
If the Macbook comes with Lion on it, you cannot downgrade to Snow Leopard.
Then what is this?
MBP Model 8.2 i7 2.2 SMC version 1.69f3.
Really I don't lie and I am getting tired of people calling me a lier.
Thanks.
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Hey,
Just bought a new macbook which comes with an Airport Extreme card. This has worked perfectly with my home router (Belkin Mimo) and my work router (unknown) as well as in various train stations and public places. However I'm currently staying at my parents house and I can't connect to their router (3Com Office Connect ADSL Wireless 11g Firewall Router). Originally I thought this was an encryption issue - my parents use a WEP password rather than more sophisticated encryption. However even after making it an open network I still get this familiar error message. I was originally able to log onto a neighbouring "Apple Network" which made me think it was just down to this particular router however I can now longer connect to this. Is Airport Extreme compatible with all networks or only the newest? Are there Mac/PC issues here? Or do you think I need to get my macbook to Apple to see if the Extreme card is faulty? I can still use this router via ethernet. I'm up to date on updates and tried most of the tricks suggested in previous threads regarding this error message.

Very useful answer Duane, Thanks a lot, a real sport that you are, you really provided us a lot of help with your answer
On-topic:
I am having the same problem as you guys have (using a macbook pro intel-based machine) and the odd thing is in my case i got this working for some time but now it's not willing to connect whatever I do.
Here's the story:
Immediately after I've bought the mac I used it on an open wi-fi network and it worked. When I got back home I tried to do connect to my private wi-fi router which had wep encription but the airport didn't want to connect it just stayed stone-dead, didn't even want to accept my wep password. I also have a PC& a Dell laptop at home which went flawlessly with my wi-fi network so I thought it might be the OS X fault.
So i installed bootcamp and windows XP Pro SP2 but i reached the same thing: airport doesn't want to connect to wep-encripted wi-fi network.
I then thought - let's try with an open wi-fi network: no result.
I then did the ultimate thing: hard-reset the wi-fi router and I re-configured it as an open wi-fi and finally got the bloody mac airport working. Thought this is it, I would have to live with this but after 2 weeks working time, now that I reach home from work (where I connect my mac on a lan) I can't make the mac's airport connecting to my wi-fi network whatever I do.
It connects though if I boot on the bootcamp windows partition.
Does anyone has any clue how to solve this issue??? I really got to the point of willing to hammer my mac for this. It's really unacceptable for such an expensive machine not to be able to work out a bloody wi-fi device.
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Software: OS X - 10.4.9
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