Re: Linksys Router Setup Failed - Fixed
The victory is not particularly satisfying as I don't know how we
fixed the problem.
On the plus side,the Linksys tech support was alway immediately
reachable and worked tirelessly in four long phone sessions to find and
fix the problem. On the negative side I had to do all this on my
grandson's laptop running Windows XP Pro. I am sure I had already tried
everything the tech support people suggested. One of those actions must
have been correct but required a reboot although there was no message to
this effect.
While it is frustrating not to know what fixed the problem it may
never come up again as this was a one time setup which should remain in
effect until setup is run again.
Finally, I really suspect that there has been a security change
which prevented me from doing this running Linux. Specifically,
reaching the setup page requires a DHCP setup. Our LAN normally uses
fixed IP addresses. When I changed one system to DHCP a link came up
immediately but still when the IP address of the setup page was entered
in Mozilla there was an immediate message that the connection was refused.
Tom George
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