Wireless Routers for Linux?
Aaron Konstam
akonstam at sbcglobal.net
Thu Apr 20 20:41:47 UTC 2006
On Thu, 2006-04-20 at 15:21 -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote:
> John Mason Jr wrote:
>
> > Bob Goodwin wrote:
> >
> >> Can anyone suggest a "wireless" router they have had success with?
> >>
> >> I bought a Linksys WRT54g, gave up on it and returned it. The
> >> installation software only works with Windows and our efforts at
> >> installing it on a Mac were frustrating to say the least. Tech
> >> support is through New Delhi, the people are fine but the language
> >> problem is near impossible! That was replaced with a Belkin 54g
> >> which at least came with usable installation software but the
> >> quality is poor, I'm about to return the second one with an
> >> intermittent power connector which has been causing maddening problems.
> >
> >
> >
> > You should be able to enter all the setup info via web interface
>
>
> Yes, if you can bring up the web interface, it doesn't always work.
>
> >
> >
> >
> >>
> >> My FC5 Linux system has a Linksys WET54G "wireless" bridge. I
> >> discovered that when you get that configured wrong there is no way to
> >> restore factory defaults except with a Windows computer and the
> >> supplied installation software.
> >
> >
> > Linksys user manual shows a reset button, but this may be different
> > than your model/version number
>
> The instructions tell you to press reset and/or pull the power plug and
> if that fails use the install software. I have never been able to
> verify that the reset button does anything of value to me? I've pressed
> it numerous times to no avail.
I think you have to od more than push it . You have to hold id for 10
seconds for the reset to be effected.
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Aaron Konstam <akonstam at sbcglobal.net>
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