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March 21, 2008
Apple's new Airport Express 802.11n in client mode: no WEP for you!
Steve, this wasn't funny.
My brand-new Airport Express doesn't like to act as a client in an WEP encrypted network. The usual tricks (entering the 40-bit hex key with a $ prefix) don't work: it says it's got an "internet problem" and misses an assigned IP address. If you give it a fixed IP, it gives you a green "thumbs up", but it still won't work.
Interestingly, it did work fine with the original firmware (7.3.0), until I violated the "if it ain't broken, don't fix it" rule and eagerly installed the latest 7.3.1 upgrade. Arrrghhh!
The Airport Express does work in client mode when WPA or no encryption at all is used.
Take that on top of oodles of problems with OS X 10.5 and my new Macbook Pro: external displays get screwed up, the internal screen sometimes goes black or loses its color calibration. Is this the end of "it just works" for Apple?
Posted by dr at March 21, 2008 11:19 PM
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the same problem.
I spent more than 5 hours trying everything and it was just wasting the time.
Posted by: andy at May 28, 2009 7:14 PM