AEBS won't talk to tower

I have a Mirror Door G4DP that was connected through an Airport Extreme Base Station to a cable modem via EtherNet. It worked fine and I could use my laptop wirelessly with the AEBS.
I recently moved and no longer use the cable modem. The tower no longer recognizes the AEBS but my laptop can see the BS wirelessly. I'm using an EtherNet cable to connect the <-> ports on the BS and the tower. I've tried a couple of other cables and the other port on the AEBS.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Donna - I better understand the question - but do not really know the answer. If required, I am confident that there are aftermarket PCI internet cards for your tower. Perhaps Duane or Henry or ...... can chime in with their expertise. On the surface - which is what you are thinking - one could hook the AE base station up to your tower via the LAN port and get connected. Does an AE base station have the requisite functionality of a AE card?
FWIW - I run 8 Macs on our home / business network using a main base station and remotes (WDS) and Gigabit digital switches and high level encryption with towers and notebooks and....... Truth be known, like many of us, I designed it and keep it zooming along with help from these boards and a lot of trial and error. There are many technical basics that I simply do not understand - let's hope one of the pros responds now - I'll learn something as well.

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