Adding AX remote to WEP AX Base - Blinking Amber!

My home network has an AX base station using 128 bit WEP security (couple of Windows machines also use this network so WEP instead of WPA). My mac and the two pc all communicate happily, sharing my internet connection and using the base station as a USB print server.
I'm trying to add a second AX in another room as a remote to stream iTunes to my stereo. I've used the second AX as a "travel" wireless router to use hotel room broadband, etc. but I've done the "Factory Reset" on it in hopes of clearing all settings and starting "clean".
When I plug in the second AX, I get the dreaded blinking amber light mentioned so many times in this forum and my mac cannot see it. I've tried temporily disabling all security on my base station AX to see if I could locate and configure AX #2 as a remote with a plan to then go back and enable security on the whole thing. I've done soft, hard and another factory settings reset on AX #2. No luck.
My mac is physically located close to the second AX and has no problems comnunicating with the base station in another room so I don't think I've got an issue with the second AX not being in range of the base station.
Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Bob in Baku

need to get that router selected under the airport icon before using the setup utility. If not there do a reset 5 second or more to get the blinking lights rapid. Check the airport icon. If not shown the go to sysyetm prefs/network/status/airport/preferred and if there , select and drag to the top of the window then hit apply. If not there then select + and proceed to be successful. You may need to reset for one second only.

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