Accessing older mac base station

I'm trying to connect with my airport on my MacBook (OS X 10.4.8) to a base station using 10.3.9. My airport shows a good connection, and I can even see the base station computer in Networks, but there is no internet connection. Under the Airport Admin utility, I received a conficuration error that said, "This version of Airport Admin Utility does not support this base station. You can't update the software for this base station, but you may be able to make configuration changes to it. Please go to www.apple.com/support to locate a newer version of the Airport Admin Utility." I can't find what I need on this site. Is it even possible?

...to a base station using 10.3.9.
The base stations don't use OS X at all.
If it is the round AirPort Extreme base station (AEBS), the AirPort Admin Utility should work.

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