Can you see it in airport utility on your laptop via wireless?
No, when I do a "rescan", that's when it says "nothing found"
Can you see it in airport utility on your laptop via wireless?
And the audio cable is in?
It isn't, as I've plugged it in in my office to do these tests (as opposed to the living room).
Although I could easily plug it in and do all of this with it plugged in in the living room as there's good wireless coverage in there.
I've now plugged the optical cable in if that helps?
I feel another factory reset coming on...
It'll only show up as a remote speaker if there's an audio cable in. Clever like that.
Does this help: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2610683 ?
The weird thing is that I've had it show up (wirelessly from laptop and via iPhone and iPad) and there's never been a cable in it.![]()
Does this help: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2610683 ?
I did what it said in that link (connect laptop to AE by ethernet) and I'm now enableing Airtunes (with a password)....
It's showing a (wireless) I.P of 192.168.1.81 and the Airplay icon is now present on my (wireless) laptop.
Ah good. So, progressed to where you were yesterday
Million dollar question: what about the wired pc?
Ok, so how about factory reset and try option 3. That can't fail.
Million dollar question: what about the wired pc?
What's the IP address of the wired pc? Is it on the same subnet?
Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : lan
Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe80::a483:f01c:adae:2a80%12
IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.71
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.254
What model of router do you have?
But I can't seem to find a section to manually get rid of that 169 IP address and it's also telling me that "the router address I entered is not compatible with my WAN address"
Which would presumably be because my router is 192.168.1.254 and the I.P of the AE is currently 169...
I found the section to manually specify an IP and I've entered 192.168.1.99 and it's saving/restarting now...
But I can't seem to find a section to manually get rid of that 169 IP address and it's also telling me that "the router address I entered is not compatible with my WAN address"
Which would presumably be because my router is 192.168.1.254 and the I.P of the AE is currently 169...
I would have thought that if you're asking it to join your current network via Ethernet, it should be getting it's ip address from the router, right? Do you have the Ethernet cable connected to the router or the laptop? If laptop, this might explain the error - AE is given ip by laptop, which is acting as dhcp thingy. I'm not sure whether, if you set it up like this, then plug it into the router, it will then get the right ip and details from the router. Or whether best to try setting up via router to begin with
Pinging 192.168.1.99 with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 192.168.1.99: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=255
Reply from 192.168.1.99: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=255
Reply from 192.168.1.99: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=255
Reply from 192.168.1.99: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=255
Ping statistics for 192.168.1.99:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 0ms, Maximum = 0ms, Average = 0ms
However now, there's no Airplay icon on my (wireless) laptop's iTunes, or my wired desktop's iTunes.
I give up.