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Hello August,

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

 AA> I acquired a Mac Pro 3.1 a couple months ago:

 AA> https://susepaste.org/59162534

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

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