Can't get wireless signal from Airport Express

I recently bought an Airport Extreme and Airport Express. The base station is in my office which is separate from my house so I bought an antenna from Macwireless.com. I'm able to play iTunes thru the Express perfectly but there's no wireless signal coming from the Express to connect to the internet. Does anyone have any idea what I can do to fix this?
After reading some other posts I found that my old wireless system wasn't acting up at all. It was Mac OS X 10.4.10. causing the disconnections to the internet. Great. Just great.

I'm able to play iTunes thru the Express perfectly but there's no wireless signal coming from the Express to connect to the internet. Does anyone have any idea what I can do to fix this?
If you have the Express and Extreme in a single Network there will be only one available network name to join. In that single wireless network the Express can be set up to extend range of network by using WDS, or simply as a wireless client that can print or use iTunes. If you check the Airport Utility help files it will give full documentation on how to set up either type of wireless network.

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I was chatting on #aircrack-ng and psycho_oreos pointed me to this
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09:12:41 < Daenyth> the orinoco one is assy, I can't even iwlist scan
09:12:55 < psycho_oreos> Daenyth, that and the ability to do 802.11g modes.. I'm presuming you have ar5212abg.. which also means 802.11a as well
09:13:09 < Daenyth> psycho_oreos: lspci tells me I have AR5001x+
09:13:12 < psycho_oreos> orinoco can scan, you just have to choose the right firmware
09:13:36 < Daenyth> psycho_oreos: oh really? If you could point me to any info on that, I would _much_ appreciate it.. right now when I roam I use airodump and filter for OPN
09:13:54 < Daenyth> it works, but it's not fun
09:14:07 < psycho_oreos> Daenyth, I've documented a bit on backtrack's wiki, however I too myself never bothered to flash it personally, you need windows to do it
09:14:16 < Daenyth> ugh
09:14:21 < Daenyth> that's not polite
09:14:26 < Daenyth> hrmm... would vmware work?
09:14:30 < Daenyth> I don't own any windows machines
09:15:03 < psycho_oreos> Daenyth, http://backtrack.offensive-security.com … _High_Rate
09:15:17 < psycho_oreos> only with usb should one use vmware
09:15:26 < Daenyth> hmm, no go then
09:15:36 < Daenyth> well thanks a lot, that gives me something to look into.
09:15:39 < psycho_oreos> I've got all the firmwares and stuff for it but never got around testing it
09:16:28 < Daenyth> where do you get the firmware?
09:16:43 < psycho_oreos> I've listed the links on that link I just posted
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09:17:12 < Daenyth> ahh thanks
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09:17:52 < psycho_oreos> wine might be able to do it but I wouldn't risk bricking it
09:18:10 < Daenyth> well my dad has a partly windows laptop.. I'll try that
09:18:44 < psycho_oreos> Daenyth, if you have any success, I'd like to hear about it I need to do something similar with a pair of hermes I cards I got
09:19:02 < Daenyth> will do
09:19:08 < psycho_oreos> and I'm not sure about using win2k, you might need win98
09:19:15 < Daenyth> uh... hrm
09:19:22 < Daenyth> well it's winXP MCE
09:19:33 < psycho_oreos> *shrug* might work
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