Configuring base station for WDS

I have an airport express basestation that is physically connected to a ZOOM ADSL X6 wireless modem with built in router. I set this up 6 months ago and don't remember the details but everything seems to be working fine. I can get wireless access to the internet from my windows PC through the Zoom modem or through the airport express. However, I now want to add a couple of more airport express remote base stations but when I use my Airport admin utlity it doesn't recognize any basestations present. When I use the Airport Setup Assistant it recognizes the Airport Express (among other wireless hotspots that are around) and says "Select the Airport network you want to set up." When I do this it says "connect to xxx network" but finally gives me an error message that says
"Cannot connect to the network or there are no airport basestations on the network"
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Dave

Hi.
I'm having the exact same problem as the originator of this post. The only difference is I am using an Airport Extreme (802.11g) and trying to use an Express upstairs as a bridge. I had this set up working fine until 10.5.7 was installed. Then the Express flaked out... probably because the Extreme was unable to be a WDS Main station anymore.
Some background... after having the issue of my wife's Macbook freezing after waking it from sleep I did some research on the forums here and found out that it had to do with the Ethernet not being turned on in the Network pref pane. The thread I looked at suggested trashing a bunch of network pref files and restarting... essentially defaulting the Mac OS to it's original networking state... which has the Ethernet port 'on' by default.
I wonder if this Ethernet bug in 10.5.7 is causing our WDS Main base stations (my Extreme and the author's Express - both plugged in to a high speed modem via Ethernet) to not accept the WDS Main status.
Duane, you pointed out that all the settings need to be identical... channel, password, encryption type, etc... but I never had a problem and Airport Utility always set these things up for me. That's what I expect from Apple gear.
Anyway, I'll try manually setting the thing up but I am pretty sure it's 10.5.7 that is causing the problem here.
Thanks,
Jon

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