Re: Linksys Router Setup Failure
On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 08:54:07PM -0400, Emily Dryden wrote:
> As previously posted, I purchased a Linksys Wireless Router, Model
> BEFW11S4, to replace an earlier model damaged by a lightning caused
> power surge. The Ethernet connections work perfectly ...
> In desperation I borrowed a laptop running Windows XP Pro and spent the
> afternoon struggling with the router installation cd and then with
> Linksys technical support. The web based setup program was supposed to
> be reached at 192.168.1.1 all attempts to connect to this IP failed. I
> had thought that perhaps security updates had blocked this address but
> even when I shut down the lan and its firewall and connected the laptop
> directly to the DSL modem or through the router to the DSL modem the IP
> was unreachable.
That won't work. The other side of the DSL modem is not on the
192.168.1 subnet. Apparently you don't realize: 192.168.1.1 IS the
IP address of the router itself. If you're plugged into the router
and can't see that address, something is seriously wrong.
Have you tried hooking a computer to the router via Ethernet (rather
than WiFi), setting it to use DHCP, and rebooting it? (On a Debian
box, of course, you can just restart the DHCP client daemon instead
of rebooting.) As i remember, the Linksys box is a DHCP server and
should assign a valid IP address to the computer in this situation.
It's quite possible the thing is defective. I've had very, very bad
luck with Linksys products and won't be buying any more. Motorola,
FWIW, explicitly supports Linux.
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