Airport Express Network Gone after Updating to 10.4.9

Everything worked fine for a few days after updating the OS to 10.4.9. Now, the home network I set up that has worked and been stable for months is just plain missing from the list of available networks. Any ideas or solutions? Thanks!

This was about the simplest solution ever. I went over to MacFixit.com and looked up this problem. There was a range of solutions, the simplest of which was to simply unplug the AirPort Express and plug it back in after 30 seconds. I did that, and all the email from the past three days was streaming in before I even got back to the computer. Back to normal, thanks to MacFixit!

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