Q: AirPort Utility won't recognise AirPort Extreme base station
AirPort Utility 6.3.5 (on an iMac running Yosemite) says "No configured base stations have been found...." even though it also says internet is connected and gives the correct info about my connection. Of course, the only way it could see the internet is via the AirPort Extreme base station.
The network connection is working fine for all sorts of other programs, including Mail, Safari, Screen Sharing, Finder file transfers, and ChronoSync (backup).
With the iOS AirPort Utility, the base station pops up almost instantly. The iOS devices and the Mac are on the same network.
I can't find any way to search/browse manually for the base station, or to just give Utility the address. How do your force it to behave? (Or give it a hand?)
iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2011), OS X Yosemite (10.10.3)
Posted on May 31, 2015 3:56 PM
Yosemite has a number of network bugs, and you are experiencing one of them first hand.
If you have not already powered off and restarted both your Mac and the AirPort router, now would be a good time to do this.
As far as having the utility search for the AirPort using an IP address.......
Open AirPort Utility
Click the File menu in the upper left corner of the screen
Click Configure Other
Enter the IP address of the AirPort router....if you know it....and the base station password. If the AirPort is performing as the "main" router on your network, it will have an IP address of 10.0.1.1
Otherwise, you can try to exterminate some of the bugs in Yosemite by checking a few settings that tend to act up on a regular basis.
Open System Preferences (gear icon on the dock)
Open Network
Click on WiFi to highlight it
Click on Advanced in the lower right corner of the window
Click the TCP/IP tab
Make sure that the setting for Configure IPv6 is set to Link Local Only
Click OK
Click Apply
Then repeat the same sequence as above, except click on Ethernet to highlight it, and follow the exact same steps
Restart the Mac and the AirPort router and see if AirPort Utility will operate more reliably
Posted on May 31, 2015 4:06 PM