So I have an Apple Airport Extreme base station that I use to create a wifi network at my house. But on a separate story from this station i have a PC (running Windows 7) that does not have a wireless card. Luckily, I have another Airport Extreme Base Station, so I figured I'd have my second station "extend" the existing network. I asked Apple if this was possible, which it was, and walked through the setup wizard to extend the network. Then I ran an ethernet cable from the Station to my PC. However the PC refuses to connect to the Internet. It says it can access the network, "Unidentified Network (Limited Connectivity)", but that's it. It tells me that my computer does not have an IP address. I tried running the cable to another computer (my Apple MacBook Pro) and got a similar error. Any thoughts?
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Does the Airport Extreem have some sort of status/diagnostic page where you can verify the two stations see each other? I'd verify that they actually see each other first.
You can also get the correct ip address settings from a working computer on the network. Then manually setup that windows 7 pc's ip4 address. All of the ip address numbers (subnet, gateway, dns) will be the same except the last octet of the actual address line. It must be a unique unused address number between 1 & 254.
example: 192.168.1.xxx where xxx is an unused number -- say 200.