Airport network form time capsule does not see airport express

Hello,
I'm rather new, bought my first apple few days ago, it's great. Have been throwing away years by using the blue screen machines
I now have mac mini, today i bought time capsule and an airport express.
time capsule to make my network and the airport express to connect my stereo.
Important: I have no internet connection yet, it will be installed in 10 days.
for now i use a mobile phone connection on the mac mini.
I installed time capsule. time machine works and airport is in the air.
With airport utility i can see the time capsule, but nothing else.
it has been there for a short time, but then time capsule was gone.
i can not find the utility to start installing airport express all over. Maybe i gave the wrong WPA2 password with the first install, but can not find the software to try again.
I placed the a.expr within 1 meter of time capsule for this test.
led of time capsule is green, led of a.expr is amber blinking.
I did a reset of the a.express, no response.
I downloaded the latest a.express client, no difference.
airport is still on. it does not see the a.express.
how to proceed?
Is it only possible ONCE to setup a.express the right way? I remember answering questions which i can not find anymore.
Sorry for the long story,
hope you can help,
Rik

oh oh oh oh........ :O
Found it.... before i connected the a.express with time capsule by a wire....does not help!
Solution is to make this wire connection between a.express and mac, then it's possible to reconfigure.
After this wire everything worked in 5 minutes.
Anyway.... thanks for reading...
Rik

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