AirPort: AirPort Base Station Does Not Work and Has Blinking Lights
This document explains what you should do if your AirPort Base Station does not respond to wired or wireless connections, a situation in which blinking amber (yellow or orange) lights (LEDs) may be visible on the base station.
Products Affected
AirPort
Symptom
Cannot connect to the base station using the AirPort Admin utility. The base station does not respond to Ethernet or wireless connections, and may have blinking amber (yellow or orange) lights.
Solution
Perform a hard reset of the base station, then reload the base station software. See technical document 58613, "AirPort Firmware v1.0, 1.3 & 2.0: AirPort Base Station (Graphite) Forced Reload or Reset".
Note: In addition to this solution, you need to be sure that you have connected properly to your base station and have configured the connecting computer(s) properly. Technical document 106858, "AirPort: Troubleshooting Outline" contains additional information that may be useful isolating your symptom to a hardware issue.
Cannot connect to the base station using the AirPort Admin utility. The base station does not respond to Ethernet or wireless connections, and may have blinking amber (yellow or orange) lights.
Solution
Perform a hard reset of the base station, then reload the base station software. See technical document 58613, "AirPort Firmware v1.0, 1.3 & 2.0: AirPort Base Station (Graphite) Forced Reload or Reset".
Note: In addition to this solution, you need to be sure that you have connected properly to your base station and have configured the connecting computer(s) properly. Technical document 106858, "AirPort: Troubleshooting Outline" contains additional information that may be useful isolating your symptom to a hardware issue.