Weird Airport connection. Need help.

Here's what's going on:
- Used to use my AEBS to connect to internet using dialup modem.
- Switched to DSL this summer.
- I have my DSL modem connected directly into the WAN of my AEBS and I can connect with my G5 desktop.
- PLEASE NOTE: the DSL modem is plugged directly into the airport, NOT the computer, and I connect fine to the internet.
Here's where it gets interesting (to a novice like me):
- When I go to my Network Preferences (system preferences > network) and show the network status for my home location, I see two items:
1) PCI Ethernet Slot Unknown Port 2. This has a green status light, and to the right it says "PCI Ethernet Slot Unknow Port 2 is currently active and has the IP address 192.168.1.47. You are connected to the internet via PCI Ethernet Slot Unknown Port 2"
2) Airport. This has a yellow status light, and to the right it says "Airport is connected to the network ExtremeNet (the name of my home network). Airport does not have an IP address and cannot connect to the internet"
It's weird that my G5 is supposedly connected via a PCI Ethernet slot when there IS NO ETHERNET CABLE PLUGGED INTO MY G5 Ethernet NIC.
Now here's my problem: I can't connect to the internet wirelessly with my laptop. The Powerbook Titanium G4 sees the Airport, but in the Network Preferences it says the same thing (with the yellow circle).
How to I assign an IP address to the Airport? (A correct IP address would be nice).
By the way, I'm running 10.4.8 on the G5 and 10.3 on the Powerbook. The Airport Base Station is version 5.6

That's usually what happens when the router for whatever reason isn't providing a default route to the machine.
There are two big things your machine needs to be given to communicate with the Internet - an IP address for your local network, and a gateway address that tells your machine which address packets must be addressed to if they are to leave your local network.
It sounds as if the DHCP server may be providing one but not the other.
Note that this may not necessarily be a bug; several routers and DHCP servers can be configured with the default gateway field blank so that any system can obtain a local IP address but only those manually configured with the gateway address can use the Internet.

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