I have an Airport Base Station from 2000 IIRC, the white conical one. The problem is that I get no signal on my Powerbooks from it. I can get a signal from a neighbor's Linksys and go on the web through that. But on my Powerbooks, I see the antenna strength meter on the top bar as greyed out. When I first connected to it this morning from a Pismo Powerbook, it started the connection, the antenna meter showed a few bars and the elapsed time of connection started to show up, and then it lost the connection. I then tried to reset the Airport first by un plugging the power. That didn't work, so I tried the reset from the AirPort Admin utility. That didn't work. Then a buddy suggested I try Macstumbler to look for Wi-Fi signals. I very briefly found my Airport, but then it quickly went away. The neighbors Linksys showed too. I then tried my 17" Powerbook and it only saw my neighbor's Linksys, but not my Airport.
I have used it successfully all this time till today. The current set up has a DSL modem wired to the Airport Base Station, then from the Basestation is connected to a G5 2.7 Dualie OS 10.4.3. As is, I can still access the internet since the Airport has a hard wire connection to the LAN port on the G5.
The only conclusion I have is that the Basestation's internal Airport card has stopped working.
Any ideas? Thanks!