OS 10.2.8 and new base station problem

I cannot get my PowerBook g4 running 10.2.8 to join my airport network. I can't run the cd to update the software because it requires 10.3
Does anyone know how i can make this work?

gjmiller4, Welcome to the discussion area!
Is your AirPort network using WPA wireless encryption? If so, you must change it to 128 bit WEP or upgrade your PowerBook to OS 10.3.
I can't run the cd to update the software because it requires 10.3
What software? All the PowerBook software (including AirPort software) will be updated if you all apply all of the updates indicated in Software Update.

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I ran into a similar problem with a friend's new AEBSn. He couldn't connect to it wirelessly nor wired. To make sure that's his AEBSn was not at fault, I brought my MacBook and tried to connect to it. No luck in wirelessly connecting to the AEBSn. Same thing went with trying with ethernet attached. I changed my Network Preferences to "Automatic" and it finally worked.
So, make sure that your Mac is set to "Automatic" in Network Preferences.
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Sorry, you lost me on that last post.
Let's start over again.
Open AirPort Utility on your Mac
Are you asked for a password at this point? If yes, enter the base station or device password that you used when you originally set up the AirPort router. Depending when you did this originally, you might have been given an option to use the same password as the wireless network. If you were not, then you have a separate password for the base station.
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If you forgot the password, a Soft Reset will allow you to go in and reset the base station password. Might be a good idea to write down that password.
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Refer to the last section "How to perform a factory default reset" on this page:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=108044
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I'm confused. You say you're connected to "Apple Network e3fec9", and you're having trouble connecting your iMac? It sounds like you've managed to connect to your Airport Base Station.
Have you configured the Internet settings for the base station? Try this:
1. Launch Airport Admin Utility (in /Applications/Utilities/) select "Apple Network e3fec9" and click Configure.
2. Under the Airport tab, give the base station a name, click the Base Station Options… button, and make sure Enable Ethernet Port is checked.
3. Select Create a Wireless Network (Home Router) if it isn't already selected, give your network a name, and check Create a closed network
4.Click the Wireless Security button and set it to WPA Personal, and enter a password.
5. Under the Internet tab, set Connect Using: to Ethernet, and in the Configure dropdown, select Using DHCP
6. Click the Access Control tab and click the plus button on the right side of the window. In the panel that pops up, click the This Computer button.
7. Click Update
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cosmomurphy, Welcome to the discussion area!
Do you have the AirPort Extreme base station (AEBS) configured as a WDS main and the AirPort Express (AX) as a WDS remote?
Or are they both 802.11n capable and the AEBS is configured to have the extend network feature is enabled and the AX configured to act as an extension?
In either of those cases, they are working together as one big wireless network. In that situation, any client will connect to the base station which appears to be the "best" connection for them.
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Today when I tried to get on the internet, my MacBook Pro would not recognize my AEBS. It cannot find it in the AirPort Utility or when I type the name of my network and password into Airport from the Menu Bar. My PowerBook is running fine on the same network. It recognizes and joins the network when it wakes from sleep and it sees the AEBS in Airport Utility.
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I'm glad I'm not the only one experiencing this problem. I was beginning to think that I made a mistake in purchasing the Airport Extreme BS (Gig). Since our jobs are printing perfectly when the printer is directly attached to our macs running Leopard, I have to assume this is a wireless issue. Currently, my Extreme Station is configured to run at 5 GHz and backward compatible with the other devices. Unfortunately, because my Powerbook is the only one that can take advantage of the 5GHz range, the base station has to allow for 2.4 GHz as well, and I'm beginning to think this is the culprit but I guess we have no choice. Because the 2.4 range is quite crowded (my cordless phone runs at that frequency), I imagine this might be what's causing the computer and base station to be confused. I hope Apple can fix this and make it more rubust. Incidentally, there is a toggle option in the Airport Utility where it does allow for more "robustness" but warns that this could slow down the overall performance of the network. I tried, but I'm still having the same sort of printer issue as you described. What do you think?

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