[canaryman16]

I currently have a Powerbook G4 with an Airport Extreme card running on an Airport Extreme base station, and it works well. I would now like to add an iBook G3 with an original Airport Card to the same network, is this possible?
Thanks.

[d00d]

Yup, Airport Extreme (802.11g) is backward compatible with regular Airport (802.11b). Should work just fine.

[canaryman16]

Great.
I read somewhere about the need to distribute the IP address. Is there a step by step guide to configuring a second mac to use Airport?
Also, the iBook is running 10.2.8 will this make a difference?
Thanks for the help!

[d00d]

By default, the Airport Base Station will allocate IP addresses inteligently. All you need to do is make sure all the computers are using DHCP (which they would be by default).
As for 10.2.8, doesn't matter one bit.

[canaryman16]

Having a couple of issues with configuring the iBook. When I enter the (correct) network password into the iBook, it claims that its not correct, any ideas?
However, i'm not certain that I have got all the parts configured correctly. Which bits need to be turned on/off in System Preferences and Airport Admin Utility on both computers. Is there a walkthrough, it seems somewhat confusing!
Finally... will using the old airport card slow down the rest of the network?
Thanks for all the help!

[Reboot]

Where did you get the password from? Is it the password to connect to the base station, or the password to connect to the other machine. If the latter you must enter the user name and password of the machine you're trying to connect to, not from.

[canaryman16]

It's the base station I'm trying to connect to. So I can use two computers off the same Airport Extreme. Is it possible to erase the wireless settings on the computer that doesn't work properly (network name etc) and start again?!
Thanks.

[Reboot]

If it's a WEP 128 password it's 26 characters long.
You can make a new Network Location in Network preferences/Locations, and edit and delete old ones there too.
Sometimes one needs to enter a $ sign before the password. I don't know if you would but it won't hurt to try.

[araknd]

Check the base station to see which security protocol are you using, WEP or WPA. I don't think that the original Airport card can do WPA, so make sure that the base station is set to use WEP for encryption.

[canaryman16]

It worked!
Thanks very much, i've now changed to 128 bit WEP.
What's the difference between WEP and WPA in a normal environment?
Thanks everyone!

[dougster]

-Hi,
Had the same problem you did helping a buddy, well...he WAS a buddy. /forums/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif [Additional info here] Glad these guys got you fired up, and running. Apple has much more info on their KB sites, or do a Google on the different flavors.