Graphite airport base station help

I've inherited a graphite airport base stations. It comes up enough for
me to see the wireless network, I can even log in as a client, but it's
useless since I can't configure the ethernet side.

I have access to a Mac OSX system without wifi, and a Windows laptop
with wifi.

Details of my attempts follow, but if anyone knows to good technique
administering it via wireless Windows software or from a Mac via
ethernet, please let me know.

TIA, Paul

What I've tried:

When I connect it to the Mac via an ethernet switch, the airport utility
never sees it. I've tried setting the mac to (IP 192.42.249.15, Subnet
255.255.255.0, Router 192.42.249.13) per the instructions at
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=58613 , and to a random
address on the 10.0.1.x network that it seems to want to use when my
Windows laptop connects as a client.

When I try a Windows-side utility (FreeBase, Apple's AirPort utility for
Windows, they don't find it although my wireless card sees its wifi network.

When I follow the reset procedures described on line, the thing ends up
sitting there with the center light lit red.

When I power cycle it, it ends up sitting there with the center light
green and the LAN side light flashing.

Of course, it never actually gets reset, because it always comes back
with the same custom wireless network name.

-- 
Paul Mackinney
2111ABC Etcheverry Hall
University of California at Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720-1740
510/643-0106
mackinney_at_berkeley.edu
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