Post author By Wayne Post date September 1, 2018 9 Comments on How to update an old Apple Airport base station.If you have one of these Snow Apple Airport Base stations you may have noticed that newer versions of the Apple Airport Utility do not support the older base stations.And older versions of the Base Station Utility wont launch on newer macs.
Apple Airport Utility 5.6.1 How To Fix ThisHeres how to fix this problem and still use your old base station with a newer Macintosh computer.![]() The problem. More recent versions of the Apple Airport utility dont support older AirPort base stations. An error message appears that says This version of AirPort Utility doesnt support this base station. New versions of Apple Airport Utility do not work with older base stations. You might think Thats fine, Ill just use the old Apple Airport Utility. But Apple have broken the older AirPort Utility 5.6.1. The Utility shows up as having a white line over it and wont launch. If you try to launch it on any OS X newer than Mavericks you just get an error saying You cant use this version of the application Airport utility 5.6.1 with this version of Mac OS. The Fix Now it turns out that the old version of AirPort Utility works perfectly. Thanks to these guys, theres an Applet that will launch the older version of AirPort Utility in newer versions of OS X. It simply tricks the computer into thinking you have an older version of OS X when it launches the AirPort Utility. This launcher tricks the AirPort Utility into thinking you have an older version of OS X and allows it run. The result is as follows you can now change the settings on your older Apple AirPort Extreme using Airport utility 5.6.1. This still works as of OS X High Sierra. OS X 10.13.5) Tags airport, router Keep up to date Sharing songs between Google Play and iTunes 9 replies on How to update an old Apple Airport base station. Reply william eggemeyer says: August 8, 2019 at 10:19 am It fails in Mojave with the following error: sh: line 2: cd: privatevarfoldersn451z76b7n4jl9rdfdbmymhq4m0000gnTAppTranslocation7D641538-86BA-490A-8D26-D0B190E20FDAdAirPort Utility 5.6.1.appContentsMacOS: No such file or directory sh: line 3:.AirPort Utility: No such file or directory Reply dana2048 says: September 14, 2019 at 11:14 am note where the error message says: 0FDAdAirPort Utility 5.6.1.appContents particularly the part adAirPort Utility see that d at the beginning of the Airport app name there is a missing in the script. So copy the script and the app to your computer, open the script in Script Editor and fix it. Specifically, change line 10 from: currentDir AirPort Utility 5.6.1.appContents to: currentDir AirPort Utility 5.6.1.appContents just add that in front of AirPort. This works for me on High Sierra 10.13.6 and I can configure my 2005 Airport Express by plugging to the computer using Ethernet cable. Reply brianzo says: March 27, 2020 at 12:02 pm Thanks dana2048. That change helped, but then in Catalina 10.15.4, I encountered a problem where the Airport Utility wouldnt launch, because it was from an unknown developer. The usual trick of Control-clicking the app and then selecting Open wouldnt work, because it would throw up the error that Airport Utility 5.6.1 would not run on this system. To get around this, I removed the com.apple.quarantine extended attribute from the file with this command (and then dragging in the Airport Utility 5.6.1 app to insert the path): xattr -d com.apple.quarantine All working now, in Catalina. Thanks to all Reply Wayne says: March 27, 2020 at 4:37 pm Nice tip By Post Author Ed says: April 1, 2020 at 1:19 pm I dont understand your work around timr says: April 3, 2020 at 12:26 pm Ed I had the same question, guessed it was either for addition to the AppleScript, or in Terminal. It was the latter. Open terminal 2. Copy the line above (xattr -d com.apple.quarantine) and paste into terminal, put a space after it. Drag the Airport Utility 5.6.1 app in to the Terminal window this inserts the app location and name in at the end of the line. Hit return. 5. Terminal will run the command, you wont see any response. Run the script again this time it should fire up the Utility (did for me, first time) Ty Morton says: January 14, 2020 at 7:56 am Im trying to get my Airport Extreme to connect to my non-Apple wifi network so that I can continue to use the hard drives and printer connected to it.
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