Wireless Routers for Linux?
Bob Goodwin
bobgoodwin at wildblue.net
Thu Apr 20 22:17:44 UTC 2006
Aaron Konstam wrote:
>On Thu, 2006-04-20 at 15:21 -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote:
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>>John Mason Jr wrote:
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>>>Bob Goodwin wrote:
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>>>>Can anyone suggest a "wireless" router they have had success with?
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>>>>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.
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>>>You should be able to enter all the setup info via web interface
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>>Yes, if you can bring up the web interface, it doesn't always work.
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>>>>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.
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>>>Linksys user manual shows a reset button, but this may be different
>>>than your model/version number
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>>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.
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>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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I think you could hold it for an hour and no get back to defaults. Tech
support requested ten seconds and thought that was longer than required,
I was watching my watch ... The [WET54G] instructions also suggest
cycling the power which also accomplished nothing. Presently it is
working on this XP box but I still can't access it with the specified
192.168.1.226? I bought it because it requires only an ethernet input,
the required drivers are supposed to be built in.
It worked a few days on the FC5 computer and quit while I was messing
with the configuration not realizing that the Belkin router had gone
intermittent.
I do thank everyone for their response, I'm overwhelmed with information!
Thanks.
Bob
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