Airport Extreme Base Station

[Ted Burton]

I have an Airport Extreme Base Station in order to use my new 
PowerBook in the living room where my injured leg can be stretched 
out in a recliner. The Base Station works just fine. No problem 
there. It is on an Ethernet network WAN side. No problem. In fact 
this message was composed and sent using it.

However, neither of Apple's applications designed to configure the 
base station can see it. I have followed all the instructions about 
resets and restarts and sequence of power up and connections and 
such, without success. All the trouble-shooting assumes the apps can 
see the base station -- and they don't.

Now i can fire up the Airport Admin. Utility and manually enter the 
default IP # and it brings up a screen that looks like it might be 
interesting, but crashes before I can even read it.

It all just works. My problem is that I would like to configure the 
base station not to use DHCP in order that my connection not get 
hijacked by a neighbor or some such.

Hmmmmm.