Linksys: IE only?

I have finally gotten a wireless network running that includes a Linksys
BEFW11S4 wireless router, which I only use as an access point, and a WET11
wireless bridge. I have tried configuring these with konqueror and firefox
on my Suse 9.0 box and with netscape on a Mac OS9 and have had problems
being able to store the settings. It seems that the only way to setup the
linksys devices is with Internet Explorer.

Has anyone else had a similar experience?

Are there network devices that are more linux-friendly?

Ken


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Ken D.

In message <Iz8oc.58$(E-Mail Removed)>, Ken Dere wrote:

> I have finally gotten a wireless network running that includes a Linksys
> BEFW11S4 wireless router, which I only use as an access point, and a WET11
> wireless bridge. I have tried configuring these with konqueror and
> firefox on my Suse 9.0 box and with netscape on a Mac OS9 and have had
> problems
> being able to store the settings. It seems that the only way to setup the
> linksys devices is with Internet Explorer.
>
> Has anyone else had a similar experience?
>
> Are there network devices that are more linux-friendly?
>
The Linksys box I had worked happily with Mozilla running under Windows
although it always misbehaved (probably with the symptoms you're seeing)
with anything running on Linux.

Dave
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So many gadgets, so little time...

> I have finally gotten a wireless network running that includes a Linksys
> BEFW11S4 wireless router, which I only use as an access point, and a WET11

My BEFW11S4 version 4 had serious trouble with non-IE browsers when
I received it. But ever since I switched to the new firmware 1.50.10
things work fine.
The new firmware is very different (and my first attempt to upgrade
resulted in a dead box that Linksys replaced for free).

Even though Linksys uses GPL code in some of its routers, it's pretty
strongly MS-oriented. To the point of responding rather nastily to
"comments/ideas" that are not MS-specific.


Stefan

Stefan Monnier wrote:

> My BEFW11S4 version 4 had serious trouble with non-IE browsers when
> I received it.**But*ever*since*I*switched*to*the*new*firmware*1.50.10
> things work fine.
> The new firmware is very different (and my first attempt to upgrade
> resulted in a dead box that Linksys replaced for free).
>

When did you do the upgrade? What happened?

Al

>> My BEFW11S4 version 4 had serious trouble with non-IE browsers when
>> I received it.**But*ever*since*I*switched*to*the*new*firmware*1.50.10
>> things work fine.
>> The new firmware is very different (and my first attempt to upgrade
>> resulted in a dead box that Linksys replaced for free).
>>

> When did you do the upgrade?

A couple months ago, why?

> What happened?

Don't know. But after the upgrade, it behaved strangely at first, so
I ended up donig a hard-reset to factory defaults using the magic button in
the rear and after that it behaved as a pure switch (on all 4 ports + DSL
port as well) with no HTTP or DHCP server running (i.e. no config, nothing).


Stefan

Ken Dere wrote:
> I have finally gotten a wireless network running that includes a Linksys
> BEFW11S4 wireless router, which I only use as an access point, and a WET11
> wireless bridge. I have tried configuring these with konqueror and firefox
> on my Suse 9.0 box and with netscape on a Mac OS9 and have had problems
> being able to store the settings. It seems that the only way to setup the
> linksys devices is with Internet Explorer.
>
> Has anyone else had a similar experience?
>
> Are there network devices that are more linux-friendly?
>
> Ken
>
>
Make sure you allow popup windows for the linksys site (192.168.1.1). I had
problems untill I opened up all the security features of Mozilla.