Communication Airport Program with Time Capsule

My Time Capsule is flashing yellow and the airport program cannot find it. It says: no wireless unit to be found. What's wrong?

Thank You for Your response.
In the meantime I had a consulting by a service-man from an APPLE-dealer by TeamViewer and the problem concerning the TC not working and fleshing yellow was solved through re-installation. Nevertheless I could not vary the time for updating, which is set originally to 1 h. Do you have an advice how to proceed? I tried Time Machine Scheduler without success.
My TC is Model 2TB, Model No. A1409. The Airport Dienstprogramm (Service-Progr. = Airport Utility?) is Version 5.6.1. By the way: TC is wired by ethernet to my Speedport W701V modem and router and this device connected by cable to my eMac and iMac. So I do not need Airport Dienstprogramm on my Mac's or?
During the consulting I was told to plug in the cable into the ethernet port. I did it.
What "old stuff" do I have on my computer that ou detected??
Thanks for an advice
Jochen Seeger

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rickinlv wrote:
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