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My ancient 1st gen Airport Base Station finally flaked out on me, so I picked up a new Airport Extreme Base Station. . .   and it's working great for the most part, but my old TiBook (with OSX v10.4.11) just won't connect to it.  The symptoms are pretty peculiar.

1. When I use AirPort Utility.app on the TiBook, it scans for Apple networking devices -- and reports it can't find any.

2. It finds my network, but when I try to join the network it asks me for a WEP password -- even though my network is set up for WPA2 Personal!  It actually gives me the option of sending a WEP Password, WEP 40/128-bit hex, WEP 40/128-bit ASCII, or LEAP.  It does not give me any WPA options.  When I enter my WPA2-P password anyhow, I get "There was an error joining the AirPort network. . ."

3. I have in fact gone into the network prefs and configured it to use WPA2 Personal when connecting.  As far as I can tell, this setting has no effect.

4. All my other Macs connect to the network with no problem.  The TiBook still connects to the open Wi-Fi network at the local convenience store with no problem.  The TiBook can also connect to the AEBS successfully via ethernet cable.

5. I did use the TiBook a while back to configure a Linksys router, and I worry that some of the Cisco software might still be in the system somewhere messing things up, but I can't find any and don't know where to look for it.

I'm really stumped on how to proceed.  Surely it must be a software problem. . .  I've considered just wiping the TiBook and restoring the OS and everything else from the ground up, but man that's a lot of time and work.

Any suggestions much appreciated!

Last edited by Zobeid (2009-06-04 12:24 pm)