[X-Apps] Airport Extreme Base Station

[Scott]

On Saturday, Feb 22, 2003, at 15:44 US/Pacific, Ted Burton wrote:

> 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.
>

Ted,
You'll need to install the AirPort software from the CD that came with 
the base station. It's a newer version than that included with 10.2.x.

-- 
Scott