Airport Extreme doesn't recoginze second Airport Express
I have an Airport Extreme base station and one Airport Express that's been working fine for years. I have a second Airport Express that I'd like to add but can't seem to get it to work. I've entered the MAC address of the 2nd Express into the Airport Utility, have both Express' listed, check mark in the "Allow wireless clients," did the "Update" but the 2nd Express just blinks amber while the first one is fine with a solid green light.
Any thoughts?
It sounds like you're attempting to add a second remote base station in a WDS with the other two. Is this correct? If so, try temporarily connecting the second AirPort Express Base Station (AX) directly to the AirPort Extreme Base Station (AEBS) by Ethernet, and then, use the AirPort Utility to configure it.
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Message was edited by: illy5603Oh well... No dice huh? I just noticed that the Airport Extreme locks up every time I use my sonicwall global VPN client as well per this thread.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=5347398
Looks like will have to return this and try the linksys offering. -
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Click Done, then click Update and wait for the AirPort Extreme to restart. -
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I've tried removing all devices except Airport Extreme.
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I've tried setting values manually
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I've tried older Airport Extreme firmware versions
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nevian
Message was edited by: nevian1see the post by Bob Timmons in this thread: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=10726015�.
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