Snow Airport Base Station

I have a Snow Airport Base Station model M8440, Part # M8209LL/A serial # UV145392M2C
I have repeatedly attempted a factory default reset on it with a MacBook Pro 15" running 10.5.8 without success following the directions at: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3728?viewlocale=en_US
During a soft reset, when attempting to connect to the base station with the *AirPort Admin Utility for Graphite and Snow* Version 4.2.5 (425.1) I get the following error message:
--- Begin Error Sheet ---
AirPort Admin Utility does not support this base station.
Use AirPort Utility, located in the Utilities folder inside the Applications folder, or install it from the CD that came with your base station.
Check www.apple.com/airport for the latest version of AirPort Utility.
--- End Error Sheet ---
It seems to be reading the base station data, as the title bar of the window has the base stations name in it.
When attempting to connect to the base station using the *AirPort Utility* Version 5.4.2 (542.22) I get an error -6753.
I do not know what version of the base station software the base station is running. It has not been used in at least 4 years. As far as I can tell it seems to be operating correctly by attempting to dial out to connect to the internet when it is in soft-reset mode.
I do not remember the WEP password for the base station which is the reason I want to reset it.

But isn't the wired ip address different from the wireless ip addresses?
They are on the same subnet (for example all will start with something like 192.168.1).
It also asks for a Gateway address (DEF. Gateway: 0.0.0.0 - is that the airport ip address?) and the BOOTP/DHCP Server: 0.0.0.0. (is that the dsl service provider address?)
Those both should be set to the LAN side IP address of the ABS (for example 192.168.1.1 if your ABS is providing 192.168.1.x addresses).

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Thanks for your reply, Barney.
I get a bit confused, because one utility administers the base station, and another one administers the WiFi. I forget which is which.
My MacMini has built in WiFi, I think, but it's turned off and I don't need it. I'm connected to the internet by the Ethernet cable that comes from the Airport base station. I just want to configure the Airport base station (Snow).
I have "AirPort Utility" version 5.5.2. It will launch. I get a notification: "Airport Utility was unable to find any AirPort wireless devices. Make sure the AirPort wireless devices you want to set up is plugged in and in range of your computer, then click rescan to try again."
Hope that's clear.
I'm stumped. Not sure where to go from here.
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Tim

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Is it possible to do that? I have an LaCie external hard drive and I'm thinking that it would be very use full if i could plug it strait to the base station. So that way i could be anywhere in my house an would be able to access my storage all the time. Anyone as got an idea on that matter? I would use a USB connection for that because there is no FW port on the base station.
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No you can't do that. The graphite and snow AirPort base station (ABS) only have Ethernet ports.
The AirPort Extreme base station (AEBS) and AirPort Express do have USB ports but that is only for a single compatible printer. (There are a few exceptions, see What kind of USB devices...?.)
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i recently bought a second hand airport base station and would like to use it to extend the range of my current wireless internet. I dont seem to see any options for relaying or wds in my configuration options. Is this base station to old?

damonhyland, Welcome to the discussion area!
That is an older 802.11b Dual Ethernet [aka "Snow"] AirPort base station (ABS). KB 107908, Identifying AirPort hardware
It does not support WDS. You can see the features of that ABS in iFelix's table.

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I have the older snow airport base station and was trying to connect my xbox 360 to it via an ethernet port. There are only 2 ethernet ports on the snow base station. one is being used by the cable coming from my dsl modem. the other free port i tried plugging into my xbox 360 to no avail. the xbox cant get an ip address. the open ethernet port on the base station is labeled with the circle logo. the one being used by my dsl modem has the two outer pointing arrows. I turned off the airport to my macbook and tried to connect my macbook to that port my xbox was in and it would not connect to the net either. Is it possible, i have the ports backwards. my wireless internet for all 3 mac computers works fine. Any help would be greatly appreciated!!!!
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Vinny

Yes, you have the ports connected backwards.
The WAN port is labelled with the "circle of dots" icon, and must be connected to your DSL modem.
The LAN port is labelled with the "double-headed arrow" icon, and that is where you connect ethernet cabled devices on your LAN.
See Apple's article AirPort Base Station: About the WAN and LAN Ports
What is surprising is that you haven't previously run into all sorts of problems with your existing setup. Once you cable things properly, you will likely have to power down your DSL modem and Base Station for a while (sometimes just an instant, sometimes overnight). After waiting, plug the modem into power and wait a minute. Then plug the base station into power and wait for it to restart.

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Firmware is uploaded onto the base station itself and is different from AirPort Utility. Although you probably cannot confirm it without connecting to the base station, I think it highly unlikely that you use a firmware version earlier than 6.1.1 (which came out in 2004). If newer firmware is contained in software on your computer, AirPort Admin Utility and/or AirPort Utility should have prompted you to upload it to the base station, whereas if it is not on your computer, Software Update (assuming you use it) should have prompted you to obtain it. Even if your firmware is older than version 6.1.1, the reset procedure is virtually the same--in that case, you won't see the AX's status LED flashing rapidly a few seconds after you start holding the reset button, and you will just need to hold the reset button for 10 full seconds.
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I'm having trouble connecting my airport base station graphite to my macbook. My macbook is running 10.6.8 and I downloaded the airport admin utility 4.2.5 for graphite but when I open it, it says that it doesn't support this version of OSX. I tried enabling opening by rosetta but i still got the error message. What else can i download so I can configure my airport?

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I'm using an iMac with OSX 10.5.4.
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Thanks.

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I am posting a new thread because I can't find one that is similar to my case. I have a late 2010 Mac Mini. Here is what happened:
1. Using it this morning to wirelessly print a document. Recieved notice that printer appears off-line.
2. Re-booted printer, re-started airport base (snow white) , no luck.
3. Did above again and restarted Mini... no luck
4. Airport signal indicator suddenly went gray on the bar and notice asking me to join an unrecognized netwok.
5. restarted Mini... would not recognize my network and Airport Base station
6. restarted mini and ABS.. still the same gray bars but being prompted to join someone else's network
7. did no.6, 3-more times... no change
8. Opened airport utility... does not appear in the scan
9. opened network preferences and clicked remember network... restarted... same SIGH!
10. checked system profiler... airport card is on but is "not associated". (Could it be broken but on?)
11. did no.6 again and also restarted DSL modem... same thing
12. Turned on my Macbook ABS recognized and was able to print my document through it no problem.
Until an hour after I turned on my Mini, it was fine.
All other devices 2 macbooks, 2 windows PCs, iPod Touches and wireless printers work.
my first instinct was to do a permissions repair but it was taking to long to finish and had to leave... will this help?
ABS and Mac-mini all have latest updates. frustrated ,have to go to work... PLS HELP.
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I'm sure if this is related but I'm also having a problem connecting a pre-2009 mac mini to an Airport base station. I have two others and they are working fine but one will not connect.
I can see the airport station and get a prompt for my password. When I try it, it times out and cannot connect. Another strange thing is the signal is only showing 2 out of 4 bars. The base station is less than 15 feet away and other devices like my iPhone show a very strong signal. The older mini is only 802.11g so I have left the multicast rate on the base station at 2.2 which I believe is the default.
I had been using an 802.11n USB adaptor but I wanted to go back to the internal wifi because the USB adaptor would disconnect whenever the computer went to sleep. I have the mini connected as a media center on a tv so having to always log again was getting frustrating.
I may try a clean install again, but the machine was just formatted and updated with a clean 10.6 about 2 months ago. I didn't install much beyond eyeTV and a few FrontRow plugins. Any ideas on how to debug wifi problems?

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I have an old AirPort Base Station (2001 model, Dual Ethernet, "Snow", actually not "Graphite", though apparently that's the correct category here), which was previously configured with my MacBook Pro running MAC OS X 10.6.8. I've just started it up, with the DSL modem connected to it, and I'm able to connect to it (and get Internet) from my new MacBook Pro running 10.9.4 just fine. However, the latest AirPort Utility v.6.3.2 doesn't see it, says "No configured AirPort base stations have been found. AirPort Utility will continue searching." – although its window does show a green button next to the word Internet, showing (I assume) that there's an Internet connection. Does anybody know how to configure an old APBS like this from 10.9.4? AirPort Utility v.5.6.1 apparently can't be used with 10.9; is there a version that can, and will see this older AirPort Base Station?

Does anybody know how to configure an old APBS like this from 10.9.4?
Not in any way that Apple would support, or that we could discuss on this forum.
Not recommending that you try a solution from the Internet using an "unknown" author to "override" security settings on your Mac, but that would be the only way to possibly get AirPort Utility 5.6.1 to run on 10.9.4.

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A friend gave me a base station with no documents. It is marked Model # M8440 on the bottom. I have tried putting that into searches under manuals to see if I can get a manual but it finds no matches at all.
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DGKentucky, Welcome to the discussion area!
Does it only have a single Ethernet port? If so it is a graphite AirPort base station (ABS).
If it has 2 Ethernet ports, does it have a printer port? If not, then it is a snow ABS.
See KB 107908, Identifying AirPort hardware.

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I noticed that you can't use the current AirPort Utility to configure old AirPort Base Stations. I'm talking about the pre-Extreme models that only had 802.11b (Graphite and Snow). It won't find them and even entering their IP manually won't let you enter the configuration.
Copying over the older AirPort Admin Utility from a 10.3 system won't let you configure them either, the app itself runs fine though. You need to use an older PPC Mac with OS 9 or max OS X 10.3 if I recall correctly.
Is there a way to do it directly from a current Intel Mac running Leopard?
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Björn

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

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