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Howdy folks!

First off I apologize if this is in the wrong place, but I'm having a hell of a time trying to get my roomate's Playstation 3 to play nice with our airport express.  He just bought the 60 GB model, so it does have built in wifi.  For the life of me I can't figure out what the settings should be.  It can hook up to the WPA2 settings I have selected (TKIP), and during the test confirms that it grabs an IP address, but fails the connection test.  At that point I'm totally in the dark.  Here's what I've found online:

1) It might be that we need to update the OS.  I'm told there's a way to do that without connecting to the internet but I'll be damned if I know what that is.  Our version is 1.0 and the current is something like 2.0.

2) Some people had problems with not having distributed a MAC address.  I don't have that setting turned on so that isn't a problem.

3) Connecting via ethernet isn't an option.  Our school turns a blind eye to people who get around their security by using their own wireless routers but will not let you hook up through ethernet.

4) We had the same problem when I turned the airport to WEP.

5) This is the closest I got to finding a solution online off of the apple discussion forum:

I'm not sure how to disable the MAC address control, but I did fix the problem.

1. Created Wired Connection (PS3-to-DSL).
2. Wrote down the primary DNS server address it used.
3. Used the PS3 Network Settings as usual to set it up for Wireless Connection, choosing the Airport and such, but then chose Custom and manually specified an IP address (for my network), subnet mask (255.255.255.0), router (10.0.1.1 = Airport), and DNS server (plugged in address obtained in Step 2).

Works like a champ now!

I tried to copy this but it didn't like me using the router address as 10.0.1.1.  That's ignoring the fact that there's no way for me to tether it.


Has anybody faced this problem before?  I'm a total babe in the woods when it comes to networking.  Any help is much appreciated!

EDIT:  I have since tried something different: plugging my computer in to the ethernet, copying down all the information, and manually setting that to the PS3.  This is what some other folks have done with their XBOX 360s.  The problem is that you can apparently change the MAC address with a 360, and you can't with a PS3.  I tried enabling access control on the Airport Express and adding the PS3 but that didn't work either.

*sigh* EDIT:  Even later on I tried sharing the internet connection through the ethernet port on my MBP in almost the same manner described by this fellow for his Wii.  Still no dice.

Last edited by Shibbysan (2007-11-29 4:13 pm)