Airport Express (b and g only) not connecting to internet

Hey guys I have the old airport express (B and G) and I have been trying to make it connect it to the internet for 5 hours. I have an arris cable modem and a linksys 10/100 5-Port Workgroup switch router thats in between the airport and the cable modem. I have tried hard reseting the airport and manually changing the subnet mask to the correct one but it won't connect I have tried directly connecting the airport to the cable modem but still no go the weird thing is the mac mini also connected to the router and does connect to the internet but the subnet mask address does not match up with the one the airport automatically assigns the mac mini has 255.255.255.0 but the airport gets 255.255.255.255 and when i try to to change it manually it gives me the green light but still won't let me connect to the internet any ideas i have just about had it with this thing.

...and a linksys 10/100 5-Port Workgroup switch router...
Since I have never heard of a device described as a "switch router",I'm going to guess that this thing is really only a switch. Using a switch in this way will not work. You need to place a router (even a very inexpensive one) between the cable modem and the AirPort Express (AX). Then the AX would be configured to act as a bridge (not sharing a single IP address). The router would then provide IP addresses to the AX's clients as well as the ones connected via Ethernet to the router.

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