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.
The HP6840 printer has the RF link built in but has a button pressing
routine that will restore the defaults without the provided software!
Any thoughts on the best solution to my problems will be
appreciated. This router needs to be returned but is there something
else that will be better suited to my situation or should I risk
another of the same type? Ideally something that would be manageable
from my FC5 system.
Might look at openwrt.com to help select your hardware, this would
give you some options
Good, thank you I will look at that page.
I realize this is not a straight forward FC-5 problem but my Linux
computer won't work on-line until I get this worked out and I doubt
I'm the only one with problems like this.
Thank you.
Bob Goodwin Zuni, Virginia
John
Thanks for the reply. BobG
