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My first Mac hates my old Linksys

Sep 1, 2005 2:17PM PDT

Hello.
I have a linksys wireless-b (Befw11s4) with the newest firmware. (1.52.02).

I just got a powerbook G4, (titanium).

My airport picks up the network, shows excellent signal strength, but won't let me connect? The PC's in the house have no problem. One of them even has an external wireless-G card.
What the hairy?

Help, please?

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Is mixed mode enabled?
Sep 1, 2005 9:23PM PDT

Some routers have a setting run "G" mode only. B wifi devices will not connect.

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Old Airport Card
Sep 1, 2005 9:45PM PDT

As Bob points out, this may be a speed problem .
The G4 Titanium Airport card can only connect to a wireless network that is working to 802.11b standards. (Slow) If your network is set to work only at the 802.11g standard (Much faster) the Airport card will not connect. It will see it though.
There is an interesting set of instructions up at the Apple site regarding the connection of an Airport card to a third party wireless router (Linksys)

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Other way around
Sep 2, 2005 8:45AM PDT

The router is a wireless-b. (the only setting available)
The powerbook is brand-new, has an Airport Extreme card.
I suspect that it has something to do with the network settings in the machine.

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Airport Extreme
Sep 2, 2005 9:15AM PDT

by default will try to access the 11b and the 11g wireless network.
Are you sue that the network is not encrypted and that it does not require a password to connect. Albeit one that you have told the other machines to "remember"
You also threw a curve ball by saying that this was a G4 Titanium and that it was brand new.
The G4 Titanium only took a 11b card. What you have is something newer than the Titanium.
Check out this link: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106424 and down at the bottom you will find the section dealing with Airport Clients connecting to Third Party Wireless base stations (Linksys)
Should help

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