Airport Extreme blinking yellow , auto reset ?

I have two Airport Extremes connected via ethernet. One is connected to the Internet and the other is to extent the WIFI in the house for better signal coverage.
Every so often the Airport Exterme that is used to extend the WIFI signal, starts to flash yellow and when I reboot it is fine again. Is there way to "auto reboot" the Airport Extreme.
thanks in advance

When i go thru diagnostic steps by way of those messages, i get "Unknown problem (6rer)"
If you are using the Lion or Mountain Lion operating system on your Mac.....
Open Macintosh HD > Applications > Utilities > AirPort Utility
Click on the amber dot, and another window will appear to explain why the amber light is blinking
What is the message? If everything seems to be normal, the message might indicate that an update is available for the AirPort Extreme.
If you are using the Leopard or Snow Leopard operating system on your Mac.....
Open AirPort Utility using the path above
Click on the AirPort Extreme, then click Manual Setup
Click directly on the word Status (2nd line on the summary page)

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If you are using the Lion or Mountain Lion operating system on your Mac.....
Open Macintosh HD > Applications > Utilities > AirPort Utility
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I reset it twice but it will not appear in the airport setup utility.I am trying to extend my network from my Airport extreme in the basement.
Im sitting 2 feet away from it on my macbook pro
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Message was edited by: Thomas Colontonio

I hope you are sitting 2 feet away from the Airport Extreme with the Airport Express plugged in near it along with your MacBook.
If not, you should do this all in the same room to begin with..
Next, it sounds like you need to reset the new Express.
Unplug it, push a clip into the reset button and while holding the reset button in, plug the Express back in and keep holding the clip in for at least 10 seconds.
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I have just bought and installed a new modem gateway. It is an Arris TG852G DOC 3.0 model with a built in WiFi router.
After connecting it and activating it through Comcast, I reset, then reconnected my airport extreme MD0331LL/A Model No. A1408 to the new Arris
modem, I am getting blinking amber lights on the base station. I have internet connectivity, but I am still getting an amber light. My wireless devices (ipad and iphones) all see the old network name and id and seem to work just fine.
When I scanned for my airport base station in my airport utility (version 5.6.1) to try to resolve the error message I get
a message stating that the Airport Utility is not detecting any airport devices.
I cannot reset the default settings as these buttons do not work within the Airport Utility.
I suspect interference between the built in router in the Arris and I understand I need to operate it in bridge mode. Can you please help me fix this.
The COMCAST people are extremely unhelpful, and stated that this is not their problem but a problem with my router
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Try connecting an Ethernet cable from your computer directly to one of the LAN <-> ports on the AirPort Extreme to see if AirPort Utility can detect the AirPort Extreme that way.
If yes, click on the AirPort Extreme and then click directly on the word Status (2nd line on the summary page)
A window will open to explain why the amber light is blinking
If the message indicates that you need to configure the AirPort in Bridge Mode......
Click the Internet icon at the top of the window
Click the Internet Connection tab just below
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Click Update at the lower right of the window to save the new setting and restart the AirPort Extreme
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It would be a good idea to power off both the Arris gateway and the AirPort Extreme now
Wait a minute
Start the Arris first, and let it run a full minute
Start the AirPort Extreme next the same way
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1) If I put my AP Extreme in Bridge Mode, alll works well. The "other" router is assigning IP addresses (in the 172. range), the AP shows a green light and all is well. Except . . . I cannot use the Guest Network functionality, which I want to keep. It appears that does not work in Bridge Mode.
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2) If I let the AP create a network, everything also seems to work fine. Now the AP is assigning IP addresses (in the 10. range). But the AP stays blinking yellow and says it does not like having two routers.
Do I care if the AP stays blinkng yellow with that error message? Why does it care if everything seems to work?
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hi all,
i am having wireless network issues with my Airport Extreme.
I have a secured (WPA) network set up at work using the Apple Airport Extreme. We have about 7 - 10 users on it at one time during business hours. What has been happening is our Airport resets itself and drops everyone off. This happens quite frequently but with no real pattern, sometimes it drops 5 times an hour, sometimes it goes for hours without dropping anyone.
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1. I upgraded my firmware to 7.1.1 from 7.0 and still drops connections.
2. However upgrading my Airport Utility software allowed me to actually see logs after the thing restarts. This is what im getting when computers lose connections:
Aug 13 13:19:39 5 Rotated TKIP group key.
Aug 13 13:19:39 5 Deauthenticating with station 00:09:2d:85:ee:3a (reserved 2).
Aug 13 13:19:39 5 Disassociated with station 00:09:2d:85:ee:3a
Aug 13 13:19:39 5 Associated with station 00:09:2d:85:ee:3a
Aug 13 13:19:42 5 Deauthenticating with station 00:09:2d:85:ee:3a (reserved 2).
Aug 13 13:19:42 5 Disassociated with station 00:09:2d:85:ee:3a
Aug 13 13:19:46 5 Disassociated with station 00:19:d2:ad:b5:39
Aug 13 13:19:47 5 Associated with station 00:19:d2:ad:b5:39
i read some other forum posts (macfixit.com) that pointed to an article about this, but of course you gotta pay for it and i have limited faith in the solution. So anyone know what it means when it Rotates the TKIP group key?
could this be a security issue and not interfeaance ?
or both?
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vtwiz wrote:
Hi all,
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A persistent, flashing amber light indicates that any of the several potential conditions may require your attention:
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