Dead Linksys WAP54G

All,
For no reason today this WAP just quit working. No wireless devices could
"see" it, however, I could ping it and log into it from my hardwired
machine.

No firmware update was done to it, nothing. Just noticed that my TiVo didn't
have a connection.

I powered down the WAP, nothing. I reset the WAP, and now I cannot ping or
log into it anymore. All lights are lit, even the activity one, however,
there isn't any activity from me

Any pointers for reviving this ? I do have a laptop that is setup for
wireless if that would help (i.e. maybe connecting the WAP directly to it or
something ?).

Anyways, any help would be appreciated before I smash this thing.
Thanks.

good to go - still don't know what went wrong in the first place.
but i found this post:

Download the older firmware version and save it on a wireless computer.
- Reset your WAP.
- Change the TCP setting of the wireless computer like this:
IP=192.168.1.x, subnet: 255.255.255.0, router: empty
- Connect wireless to your WAP, the network is linksys, no password needed.
- Open your browser and connect to your WAP (192.168.1.245)
- Update your firmware to the older version
- Reset

and it worked perfect (except i didn't reflash the firmware), apparently the
wap just "lost"
all of my settings somehow. oh well.

"StinkFinger" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> All,
> For no reason today this WAP just quit working. No wireless devices could
> "see" it, however, I could ping it and log into it from my hardwired
> machine.
>
> No firmware update was done to it, nothing. Just noticed that my TiVo
didn't
> have a connection.
>
> I powered down the WAP, nothing. I reset the WAP, and now I cannot ping or
> log into it anymore. All lights are lit, even the activity one, however,
> there isn't any activity from me
>
> Any pointers for reviving this ? I do have a laptop that is setup for
> wireless if that would help (i.e. maybe connecting the WAP directly to it
or
> something ?).
>
> Anyways, any help would be appreciated before I smash this thing.
> Thanks.
>
>

Taking a moment's reflection, StinkFinger mused:
|
| good to go - still don't know what went wrong in the first place.
| but i found this post:

I have had this happen to me twice ... once just after flashing to a new
firmware, and once sometime later out of no where. However, in my case, the
IP of the WAP changed to 1.192.168.1 (note the sequence), and I could not
log in to the Admin page because of this.

I had to hook the WAP to a wired NIC, and reset it by doing the
following: Hold the reset button the whole time, wait 10 seconds, then
unplug power from WAP, wait another 10 seconds, plug power back in, wait 5
seconds and release reset button. This seems to have reset the IP to
192.168.1.245 per defaults.

StinkFinger wrote:

> All,
> For no reason today this WAP just quit working. No wireless devices could
> "see" it, however, I could ping it and log into it from my hardwired
> machine.
>
> No firmware update was done to it, nothing. Just noticed that my TiVo
> didn't have a connection.
>
> I powered down the WAP, nothing. I reset the WAP, and now I cannot ping or
> log into it anymore. All lights are lit, even the activity one, however,
> there isn't any activity from me
>
> Any pointers for reviving this ? I do have a laptop that is setup for
> wireless if that would help (i.e. maybe connecting the WAP directly to it
> or something ?).
>
> Anyways, any help would be appreciated before I smash this thing.
> Thanks.


Take the G PCMCIA card out of it before you smash it :-)

> Take the G PCMCIA card out of it before you smash it :-)

hey great idea. i'll remember that for the next "almost smashing"