I’m pretty sure my Airport Express is hosed. It doesn’t seem to want to fully join my home network. iTunes can’t connect to it. Power-cycling accomplishes nothing.

It’ll show up in a Bonjour-browsing utility, but that’s about it. I attempted to reconfigure it using the Airport Admin Utility, but it consistently timed out after password authentication. After putting the thing through a hard reset, the Admin Utility saw it easily enough, and I was able to configure it as a wireless DHCP client, feed it the WPA password, and watch it pick up a DHCP address.

As soon as the Airport Express restarted after the update, the damned thing immediately gave itself an autoconfigured IP address, and attempts to configure it with the Admin Utility timed out after authentication again, and iTunes can’t find it. Time and again, the stupid thing sent me back to square one. Googling the problem was more disheartening than helpful; apparently a lot of people have found that their Airport Expresses simply die on them after a year and a half of service. Bummer deal.