How to configure a Snow base station with Snow Leopard?

According to "Mac OS X v10.6: About incompatible software"
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3258?viewlocale=en_US
...AirPort Admin Utility for Graphite and Snow 4.2.5 is incompatible with Snow Leopard.
I have a Snow AirPort Base Station, and AirPort Utility 5.4.2 doesn't seem to be able to see it. (At least I can't figure out how to make it do so.) Can it not work with a Snow Base Station?
Now what?

One solution is to keep a pre-Snow Leopard OS installation (either on another partition or external drive) and then boot from that when you need to configure the snow AirPort base station (ABS).
Another solution is to use another Mac running a pre-Snow Leopard OS to configure the snow ABS.
Since the snow ABS was discontinued 6 years ago I can understand why support is going away.
The last PowerPC was shipped only 3 years ago and that is not supported by Snow Leopard either.

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<http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/apple/application_updates/airportadminuti lityforgraphiteandsnow425.html>

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How do you set up an
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Fmsalazar

Apple did say it was important.
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I am searching as I saw it in a thread today where a person had issues. (No contribution from me in the thread but found that was the issue).
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I recently found a cheap Airport Snow Base Station to use on a trip I'm taking next week. I'll be at a lake house with no broadband, only dial-up capability. I thought if I could at least go wireless, it would be more bearable, so I got the Snow Base Station since my Express nor my Extreme Base Station have modems.
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I BEG of you: How do I replace an Airport Extreme base station with a 4th-generation Time Capsule as the base station?

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I bought a 4th-generation Time Capsule about a year ago, but couldn't figure out for the life of me how to replace the Airport Extreme with it. I became so incredibly frustrated that I hid it away in a closet until now. I just tried again, with the same results. I've got both Airport Utility 5.6 (to use with the old Extreme and Expresses) and Airport Utility 6.2. I was using version 6.2 to set up the Time Capsule... or to try to. Once again, I cannot for the life of me figure out how to do it! I tried so many different Ethernet wiring connections that I now cannot remember them well enough to describe them here.
I distinctly remember that, when I tried this a year ago with my wife's MacBook Air and Airport Utility 6.2, I was presented at one point with the question whether I wanted to replace an existing base station with the Time Capsule I was trying to set up, but this time I never was presented with that option.
Is there anyone who can, in essence, hold my hand and walk me through this process step-by-step? At this point I even need to be instructed what to wire to what. I feel like a total incompetent.
My MOST sincere thanks in advance for help!
(I hope Time Capsule is the correct forum for this question. I considered the Airport forum as well, but I don't want to cross-post.)
(And, just to complicate matters, after I get this done-- assuming I ever do-- I want to use the old Airport Extreme on the outside of the house to extend the range of my LAN to the back yard... but that's for another day entirely.)

apikoros wrote:
The Utility transferred all of the AE's settings, so I still have to change the password, which leaves me with only 2 other questions, I think:
1) I assume it's just a matter of using the Utility, entering a stronger password and checking for it to be remembered in Keychain Access. But do I have to change the password for each individual unit-- the TC, the Extreme and both Expresses-- or will changing it just for the TC alone work for the entire network?
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2) Who's the treasonous SOB who spilled the beans to you about the ICBM in my back yard?!?
N.Korean hackers.
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http://pondini.org/TM/Time_Capsule.html
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MacBook problems with Snow base station - other laptops work fine

Hi,
I just purchased a new MacBook to replace an iBook G4 800.
My snow base station works fine with the old iBook G4 (which has an extreme card) and with a borrowed PowerBook G4 Aluminum 1.5 GHz (also extreme card) but will not work with my new Mac Book. Every time I try to connect - I receive an error "There has been an error accessing "my name" 's network. Sometimes it will connect, other times (most of the time), it will not.
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Theresa

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I guess it can be interference but I am now wondering if it is related to the snow/graphite base station only. This laptop has no problems joining other b base stations.
I spent hours on the phone with an Apple wireless support specialist the other night. He wants me to try an Extreme base station. He didn't indicate that he was aware of any MacBook problems (and he mentioned interference and we setup my laptop to only join my network and it didn't make a difference).
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Hello -
I am having trouble configuring my Snow base station after a hard reset.
Airport Admin Utility will not see or connect to it.
I get the error:
"The AirPort admin utlity was unable to
read the configuration file of the selected
base station.
An error occurred while reading the configuration."
any suggestions?
I need to completely erase it and give it a different configuration altogether.
Any help would be appreciated.
Regards - Dustin

I can only offer sympathies. I have exactly the same problem.
A question:
1) After a hard reset of the ABS according to the procedures in Articles 106602 & 106685, at step 14 does Airport Admin(AA) find your ABS?
(I can reliably get to this point, however loading default software fails. I noticed that the Airport ID is zeroed! )
2) In AA have you tried connecting to 10.0.1.1 using your ABS password?
3) Can you create a c2c network? (I can connect my iMacs together reliably, so it is not a radio noise issue.)
I firmly believe this is a s/w issues somehow related to the recent upgrades. I only recenly bought my ABS, after replacing my Graphite for similar reasons. This is becoming unreasonablely time consuming and expensive.
I know this is a bit 'blah, blah', but I'm scratchng around too and would appreciate help! (I had to drill a hole in the wall to get 'hardwired' to the net, so I could get on here, this is not good!)
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My Snow Base Station ran fine with the Pacbell ADSL modem for seven years.
Had three laptops and tower at home wireless with no issue.
Yesterday, after getting Road Runner cable modem installed, tried to use it with the cable modem - had disasters continually so tried to go back to the old ABC plus ADSL modem.
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However,
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So furious I messed this up; should have stayed with the Pacbell modem.

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HEEEEELPPPPPPPPPPPP!!!
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