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Configure AirPort Express with a Windows Vista Laptop to play music through powered speakers

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Zones:

Apple Networking, Networking Hardware for Macintosh, Windows Vista

Tags:

Apple, AirPort Express, N/A

I've just brought home and installed an Apple AirPort Express. I followed the instructions in the setup guide, but my laptop can't seem to connect to the port.

Hardware:
IBM/Lenovo ThinkPad Z61t running Windows Vista home edition
Hawking wireless networking card (it works fine with my Hawking wireless router)
AirPort Express
audio cable connects AirPort to amplifiers

I installed the AirPort Utility software. When I open it I get the following message:

"AirPort Utility was unable to find any Apple wireless devices. Please make sure the Apple wireless device you want to set uo is plugged in and in range of your computer, and then click rescan to try again."

If I open Control Panel >>> Network and Sharing Center >> Connect to a network,I can see my primary network and an "Apple Network 0118f Unsecured network which has a very strong signal. WhenI select the Apple network (I presume this is the AirPort Express) Vista gives me one of its tedious warnings:

"Apple Network 0118f is an Unsecured network"

Connect Anyway
Connect to a different network

When I select "Connect anyway" I get the message:

"Windows cannot connect to Apple Network 0118f "

Diagnose the problem
Connect to a different network

When I select the first of these options I get the following:

"Windows cannot connect to Apple Network 0118f "
Wireless association failed due to an unknown reason.

more useless information.

A couple of other points:

I don't use the Windows Firewall and
I have turned the Norton 360 Firewall off.

Still nothing.

Can anyone help?

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Answered By:	strung
Expert Since:	03/31/2004
Accepted Solutions:	1069
Computer Expertise:	Advanced

strung has been an Expert for 4 years 9 months, during which he has posted 4420 comments and answered 1069 questions. strung is just one of 301 experts in the Apple Networking Zone. 1 expert collaborated on this answer, which was graded a "C" by the asker.

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