![]() Besides if you can get 3-5 years out of them, you pretty much spend their useful lives. ![]() I had enough and finally got rid of my old base stations. So, trust me, this is as confusing to me, as it may be to you. However, I also believe, if you delete v5.6 you won't be able to reinstall it even though it worked before. I believe you get the error message when running v6.3.1 because it is warning you that you can't use it to administer your older 802.11g AirPort. Fortunately, they should be able run independently of each other. As you can see that didn't always happen. By the way, a 1st Generation version of the AirPort Express is actually model A1264.which would be compatible with your AirPort Extreme. If already installed when upgrading OS X it should have been removed and replaced with v6.x. No, if you are asking about wirelessly extending the signal, since there is no setting to 'extend a wireless network' on the older A1084 version of the AirPort Express. and again, v5.6 was designed to work with OS X Lion up to v7.5.2. AirPort Express provides simultaneous dual-band wireless 802. so for clarification the AirPort Utility does NOT run on the base station. ![]() So far we are only talking about the AirPort Utility with all these versions. Please understand the AirPort Utility and the base station firmware are two different things. The 802.11n base, which could run on either version of Airport Utility, runs just fine when set up with v5.6. and yes, the best way to uninstall the utility is to just drag it to the trash or use an app like AppZapper to remove it. The only current resolution for managing the older 802.11g base stations are: 1) Use a Mac running OS X Snow Leopard or earlier, or 2) Use a PC running Windows XP or Windows 7. You will need to retain v6.3.1, as I mentioned above to manage your 802.11n base station. If your iMac is running OS X Lion as your tagline indicates you should remove the older version (5.6) of the AirPort Utility from your computer. So I'm guessing that if I get rid of the 6.3.1 version the 'b/g' network base will connect and work properly? What's the best way to uninstall, just drag it to the trash? but again, the earlier version does not work with OS X Lion and later.įor some reason the 'n' network base dealt with the conflict and is already working with 5.6, as I see it in the Airport Utility 5.6 window with a green light. Both the earlier v5.x & v6.x can co-exist on the same computer. You will need to use v6.x of the AirPort Utility to manage 802.11n & 802.11ac AirPort base stations. There is no updated version to manage these base stations with the later OS X versions.Īfter some investigation I discovered that I somehow have both Airport Utility 5.6 and 6.3.1 installed. Unfortunately, she cant find the CD that came with it and Im a bit of newbie when it comes to Apple products. To administer the older 802.11g AirPort base stations you will need to use v5.6.1 of the AirPort Utility and this will only run on OS X Snow Leopard or earlier Macs. A friend of mine gave me her airport express and I want to use it to stream music from iTunes to my living room stereo. I just reset the 'b/g' base station and opened the Airport Express network from the WiFi tab in the menu bar and got a message that Airport Utility doesn't support the base station.
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