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    From August Abolins@2:221/1.58 to All on Sat Dec 17 07:48:00 2022
    I acquired a Mac Pro 3.1 a couple months ago:

    https://susepaste.org/59162534

    I have no long term experience with networking these things.
    The internal wifi seems capable and is able to detect my wifi
    router, but it doesn't seem to want to connect it citing
    "missing air port" or something like that. Do these macs only
    talk exclusively to apple airport wireless routers?


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  • From Daniel Path@2:371/52 to August Abolins on Sun Dec 18 11:52:00 2022
    Hello August,

    17 Dec 22 07:48, you wrote to All:

    I acquired a Mac Pro 3.1 a couple months ago:

    https://susepaste.org/59162534

    I have no long term experience with networking these things.
    The internal wifi seems capable and is able to detect my wifi
    router, but it doesn't seem to want to connect it citing
    "missing air port" or something like that. Do these macs only
    talk exclusively to apple airport wireless routers?

    no they can talk to anything with a proper authentication method :)
    i guess you are using WPA2/WPA3 on your routers but these old macs are not capable to connect only for WEP maybe WPA1... better check the docs :)

    Regards,
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  • From August Abolins@2:221/1.58 to Daniel Path on Sun Dec 18 09:11:00 2022
    Hello Daniel Path!

    https://susepaste.org/59162534

    ..Do these macs only
    talk exclusively to apple airport wireless routers?

    no they can talk to anything with a proper authentication
    method :) i guess you are using WPA2/WPA3 on your routers
    but these old macs are not capable to connect only for WEP
    maybe WPA1... better check the docs :)

    "not capable to connect only for WEP"? Are you saying that my
    router needs to be WEP?

    My router is indeed an older Netgear, but it is currently using
    WPA-PSK [TKIP] + WPA2-PSK [AES]
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