Time Capsule keeps on flashing amber light.

So basically reset it then reconfigure it again? ****.

Thank you though I guess I'll try 'cause I wouldn't know what else to do.

And yes I'm aware it is to be set up through Ethernet which is what I did the first time then I put it on wifi.

I have an Ethernet cable still I'll use that to connect it to the Mac and do the setup again with the manual help...sigh.

Thanks for your help! 🙂

Ok here's the deal. I did the reset, connected it to power, connected it to modem (through Ethernet), and it finally started up, updated, and reset (also the firmware was to be updated). So the light finally went solid green, and the disk is now shown (I had to rename it/choose password again) in both the airport and time machine pane, it also by itself set itself up (old settings got through maybe?) to be backup disk to be used with time machine so I haven't done that 'cause it did it automatically. So now it's connected and asking me to backup for the first time, which I know is to be done while on power (for the Mac...much data) and on Ethernet (for the time capsule...faster maybe?). But...this is supposedly a wireless device, and I've always used it like that, wirelessly just connecting it to power but using the wifi network that the modem creates and that Mac and iPhone already use. Now, I've set/reset it through Ethernet, and it's fine for the first backup. But I want to go back to using it wifi, like I did in my old apartment. Deal is if I take the Ethernet cable off the modem off the time capsule, the light goes back to flashing amber, obviously, and there it is again it can't connect to the internet. Why is it that I cannot manage to put the time capsule ON the existing wifi network without Ethernet? What must I do? I've checked the manual and checked every setting in the panes but I can't figure out what I need to do to take Ethernet off/switch to wifi. Same network, different connection...I guess. When I bought it a year ago I never used Ethernet, I somehow (can't remember) set it up through wifi from the v. beginning and always used it wirelessly. Now...I can't. I don't wanna stick to the Ethernet cable, not an option. How to switch to wifi? How to remove the cable and still make it connect/join to the wifi network the Mac uses? What's the option? If it can be of any help when I select the disk from the airport pane and click edit and get the menu with options, I see Base Station tab (name and password I chose), Internet tab (connect using: DHCP, other fields are blank), Wireless tab (off, it was on create network but that's not what I need, I ALREADY HAVE A WIFI NETWORK), Network tab (Bridge mode, it was on DHCP and Nat, changed it 'cause I thought maybe it must be on bridge to function just as a bridge on an existing wifi network, guess I was wrong), Disks tab (showing the disk, the partition, space etc.). That's it, I'm sorry I'm no Mac expert here, just a user who's only used TC to automatically backup on wifi, never really got into the internet troubleshooting stuff before. Help would be much appreciated. 🙂

I've tried doing the first backup even if it's on Ethernet now, no it won't time machine pops up telling me the backup disk *** is not available, instead light is solid green and airport says disk is okay. Why in **** can't I backup be it Ethernet or wifi? Is some option stated before wrong, which one? D:

Yes I'm sorry this is my current situation:

I cannot shut wifi off on my modem, I use it in wifi for my TV, iPhone and Mac, always have...I don't like cables. Now I would like for my TC to also join this wifi network and backup without using the Ethernet cable going to the modem, like it did ever since last December that I purchased it, up until a week ago that I've moved houses/changed modems. I don't understand how I did it the first time, I got the TC and set it up simple as. It was pretty simple I remember just unpacking then setting it up and somehow I must have chosen my wifi network to join, just like you do on the Mac, or something similar, and off it went on wifi. Or maybe...time confuses memories...maybe the setup as stated up in previous posts I did with the Ethernet cable, like it actually says on the manual, I cannot remember wether I did or not unfortunately. But anyways after the first time EVERY other time I would just get the TC out of the box, power it and it would backup in wifi no cables. That is for sure, did it last week for the last time. Modem on in wifi, Mac on in wifi, TC on power, green light (it must have joined my wifi network automatically everytime like a Mac does once the network is known/favourite), TM in menu bar, "back up now". And it would backup wirelessly, then power off and back in the box. I was moving so I didn't keep the TC out and running 24/7, if you're wondering. I've done it for over a year, it's pretty umbelievable to think it was some strange unusable setting, that I won't be able to repeat now. Instead I thought it was the normal way to go since it's also wifi device, and that I'd simply chosen the wifi way, instead of the Ethernet cable way! Omg. Now it looks like on this wifi network it cannot go wifi, it needs Ethernet, and also it won't backup not even now that all is green and it's connected through Ethernet, it tells me the disk isn't available. Pretty weird... I would just like for it to use this wifi network like all my other devices do like it did before on the old network, is it impossible? I do hope not! Thanks again for all your help, much appreciated. Sorry for any mispelling, I'm foreign. 🙂

Edit:

Also this may help?

I don't understand the first two lines of your reply, I'll try and keep it simple I don't know.

I did reset (completely, as in by pushing the rest button on the back) the TC yesterday, to factory settings.

Then I set it up again (completely, as if it was new), connected it to modem, power, set it up with AP Utility.

As you can see AP Utility then said everything was fine, now nothing has changed ever since, I left everthing ON.

So TC is set up, disk appears as okay, in both AP Utility and TM pane, but if I try a backup: "disk isn't available".

Left everything like yesterday means TC has Ethernet cable, going to my modem (it's an italian ADSL modem) :|

It gives me a wifi network which my TV, Mac, iPhone join w/o problems, and TC did too, in my old house!

Now, I'd like to take this Ethernet cable OFF, and use TC to backup in wifi, but if that's too tricky OK I'll use Ethernet, just as long as it DOES WORK/BACKUP, which it doesn't do in Ethernet either right now!

I don't know what's wrong, I posted you all the settings, are they right? Is something on/off that shouldn't be?

Now as you suggested I'll try to shut everything down/off, then restart everything, hopefully TC will still be setup, once I restart everything in the order you described, I'm just afraid if I shut the modem down and disconnect power from the TC, it'll disappear from the disk list or something, I hope everything stays the way it is now.

The name I gave is the same I used a year ago when I first setup TC and it's worked fine for a year even though there's no number and there's spaces, it's "my name space my surname space TC". Could that be a problem too now?! Are the settings such as Off (Bridge Mode) and Wireless tab Off correct for the type of use of the TC I want or should something be different? I don't know all these things. 😟 There might be something not correct. But AP Utility set it up automatically so I don't think settings are not correct... I don't think the name should be an issue either... As said before I'll try and shut down then restart everything and try a back up now at that point.

Nope. Powering off and powering on didn't change a thing. Green lights no backup. Disk is not available and is not "mounted" in the finder sidebar either when plugged in. Like it's not there but AP Utility sees it and says it's ok.

So tried the procedure in your link to delete TM preferences/memory. Didn't work either. I cannot re-select the disk in the TM preferences pane now. I cannot select it from the list it's not there. I choose Other it opens AP Utility my disk is there green light and all, but can't do anything with it. Can't "select it" to use for the backup.

I have no idea at this point. Maybe I'll try and push the reset button on the back, agggainnn.

I did some of the things you listed after my last posts. I unplugged and plugged everything in again. I shut down and turned everything on again. In a proper order... Then the disk was visible again and AP Utility found it again. I then did the factory-reset thing again not with the back button but through the AP Utility top menu where it says restart and below it says reset. Again I had things like new and proceeded to configure again through AP Utility (kept the same name...my bad). BUT. I did a different step during the configuration bit that I didn't do the few times I tried before but that I did do a year ago when I set it up the very first time and that's how I got it to work on wifi right away no Ethernet no nothing. When it asks what you want to do with the TC there's a little Options button in the bottom left corner I didn't consider. Clicking that it gives you various options for the internet connection besides creating a network which I didn't want and besides connecting to the Ethernet cable which I didn't want either (and didn't work apparently). You can choose (I remembered correctly from last year) to JOIN an existing wifi network (like a Mac or iPhone does) and connect to that. No hidden impossible stuff it's among the options. I put the WPA password from my modem and it connected updated and started backing up through the wifi network w/o cables. As you can see in the photos some of the settings are now different then they were before (I knew some of them were not correct like bridge mode and wireless off) and in AP Utility where the TC drawing/icon is the popup indicates the wifi network as a connection whilst before it said off. And the disk is finally showing up everywhere finder sidebar included. I guess I missed the step where you can choose to just join an existing network and just work on that and configure it for that pourpose. Stupid me. Didn't pay enough attention to the options while setting up. Thank you for your patience and help anyways. I would have gone crazy by myself. It was stupid but hard to figure out. I didn't even lose my old backups it seems... 😎