The latest version of AirPort Utility (6.3.8) is an included part of the High Sierra operating system, so it is of course fully compatible with High Sierra. Or, stated another way, if you have High Sierra installed on your Mac, you also have the latest version of AirPort Utility (6.3.8) installed on your Mac. Posted on Dec 17, 2017 11:35 AM. Jan 17, 2018 It requires Airport utility 5.6 to configure. However, that version of the airport utility no longer functions under Sierra and High Sierra. Jan 07, 2018  Guide Airport - PCIe Half Mini v2 This tread is DEPRECATED Patches do not work with Clover v4305 or newer See Broadcom WiFi/Bluetooth Guide 11/3/16 - 10.12.1 WiFi Injection stopped working (1. FakePCIID.kext, now working, 2016-1115 or newer and 5. Clover/FixAirport), see: Airport.

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Jan 11, 2017 Open AirPort Utility 5.6.1 Launcher to launch the utility. Now that the AirPort Utility is open, you still won’t see your AirPort Express, even when you click the “Rescan” button. On your AirPort. For Mac OS X High Sierra, Sierra, El Capitan, Mavericks, and earlier. As you can see, there is an abundance of options to interact with wireless networks by using the airport utility in Mac OS X. Advanced Mac users should really get a kick out of this one, as it’s extremely powerful, and wildly useful.

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 won’t launch on newer macs. Here’s how to fix this problem and still use your old base station with a newer Macintosh computer.

1. More recent versions of the Apple Airport utility don’t support older AirPort base stations. An error message appears that says ‘This version of AirPort Utility doesn’t support this base station.’

New versions of Apple Airport Utility do not work with older base stations.

2. You might think ‘That’s fine, I’ll 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 won’t launch. If you try to launch it on any OS X newer than ‘Mavericks’ you just get an error saying ‘You can’t use this version of the application Airport utility 5.6.1 with this version of Mac OS.’

Older versions of Apple AirPort Utility are ‘broken’.

Now it turns out that the old version of AirPort Utility works perfectly. It’s just been ‘disabled’ by Apple so it won’t launch.

Thanks to these guys, there’s 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.

You can download the launcher from here.

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)

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How to fix the ‘ethernet unplugged’ problem on Apple Airport Extrememark0says:December 10, 2018 at 7:26 am

hi, unfortunately it does not work in mojave, do you know how I can fix it?
thank you.

Replywilliam eggemeyersays:August 8, 2019 at 10:19 am

It fails in Mojave with the following error:

sh: line 2: cd: /private/var/folders/n4/51z76b7n4jl9rdfdbmymhq4m0000gn/T/AppTranslocation/7D641538-86BA-490A-8D26-D0B190E20FDA/dAirPort Utility 5.6.1.app/Contents/MacOS: No such file or directory
sh: line 3: ./AirPort Utility: No such file or directory

Replydana2048says:September 14, 2019 at 11:14 am

note where the error message says: …0FDA/dAirPort Utility 5.6.1.app/Contents…
particularly the part “…a/dAirPort 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. Then run that modified script from Script Editor.
Specifically, change line 10 from:
…currentDir & “AirPort Utility 5.6.1.app/Contents…
to:
currentDir & “/AirPort Utility 5.6.1.app/Contents
— 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.

Replybrianzosays: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 wouldn’t launch, because it was from an unknown developer. The usual trick of Control-clicking the app and then selecting “Open” wouldn’t 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!

ReplyWaynesays:March 27, 2020 at 4:37 pm

Nice tip!

Edsays:April 1, 2020 at 1:19 pm

I dont understand your work around? Best widgets uber for mac os sierra.

timrsays: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.

1. Open terminal
2. Copy the line above (xattr -d com.apple.quarantine) and paste into terminal, put a space after it.
3. 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.
4. Hit return.
5. Terminal will run the command, you won’t see any response.
6. Run the script again – this time it should fire up the Utility (did for me, first time)

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Ty Mortonsays:January 14, 2020 at 7:56 am

I’m 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.

Firmware updates to my AirPort Extreme now prevent the 5.6.1 version of the app from accessing the hardware’s configuration. It either gives me an error or simply crashes.

It’s maddening because the only reason I need it is because the current version of the AirPort utility doesn’t have “Join an existing network” as an option. It only allows you to either create or extend a network. If Apple would just restore that option, I wouldn’t need the 5.6.1 version.

ReplyDennissays:April 8, 2020 at 7:20 pm

Hey guys. So I got it to run 5.6.1 in Mojave but it won’t recognize the airport… any way you guys could help? Thanks!

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AirPort Utility User Guide

See your network at a glance

Quickly see the status of your network and the devices connected to it in a graphical overview.

Safely share your network

Create a guest network so friends and visitors can use your Wi-Fi connection without compromising your network’s security.

Automatically update your base stations

Keep your network running smoothly by having AirPort Utility automatically check for software updates.

Manage your Wi-Fi network from your devices

With the AirPort Utility app on your iOS and iPadOS devices, you can set up and monitor your network from your devices as easily as you can from your Mac.

To browse the AirPort Utility User Guide, click Table of Contents at the top of the page.

If you need more help, visit the AirPort Support website.