Airport Utility 4.2.5 unable to find base station Snow m8440

Hello
I have Airport Base Station "Snow" M8440 - My Airport Utility on Tiger (10.4.11) se it but I decided to do reset to factory defaults like here:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3728?viewlocale=en_US
And now Airport Base Station is not visible - My Powerbook G4 see WiFi but Airport Utility don't see Base Station :/ what can I do? (10.5.8) does not see to.
- Powerbook G4, 1.5 GHz, Mac OS X Tiger 10.4.11 or 10.5.8
- Airport Base Station M8440
Please help!

https://discussions.apple.com/message/11998955#11998955
Don't know if this will help. Good luck!

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