#AIRPORT UTILITY 5.6 INSTALL#

If you wanted to mod the package to skip the check, if you want to easily install the package on multiple macs for instance, here's what you need :Ī tool called 'Flat Package Editor' to modify the file called Distribution in AirPortUtility56.pkg. The app works without issue on Mountain Lion in my limited testing so far. AirPortUtility56/AirPortUtility56Lion.pkg/Payload | sudo tar -C / -xvf - './Applications/Utilities/AirPort Utility 5.6.app' AirPortUtility56.pkg ~/Downloads/AirPortUtility56

Then in a Terminal window do : $ cd ~/Downloads If you do not want (or can't) get the app out of a backup you can extract it from the installer.ĭownload the Airport Utility 5.6 for Lion and move the file AirPortUtility56.pkg contained within the dmg to your ~/Downloads folder. Seems anyone with older Airport kit, or a need to do anything slightly advanced in ML is screwed.Īnyone know how I can either view logs in 6, or install 5.6 on 10.8? So I download 5.6, which is the most recent non-6.0 version that uses the old ways and lets you view logs etc - and it won't install because it's not compatible with Mountain Lion.Ī bit of googling about also reveals that apparently V6.0 will only manage Wireless-N networks.

I presume the AE just rebooted, so I fire up Airport extreme to look at the logs, and remember that in Airport Utility 6.0, all the nice advanced features (and some not so advanced ones) are not available. I wait a while, it starts to flash green, then it goes green, and slowly my SSIDs start to appear, and everything is normal again. Sure enough, my Air has also lost it's network connectivity and the Airport Extreme is solid Amber on the status light.

#AIRPORT UTILITY 5.6 WINDOWS 7#

Incidentally, version 5.6.1 is available, but it complains that it requires Windows 7 SP1.So I just upgraded to Mountain Lion, and I'm watching some Netflix over my Apple TV, when it stops streaming and tells me it's not connected to the network any more. I installed version 5.5.3 under wine-1.5.12. I can't get APUtil.exe running under wine.

Airport utility 5.6