MN-500 bridged - how to update?

I have an MN-500 in bridge mode - acting as an AP and switch, behind another
router (Netgear) I use as my main router.

I want to reset the AP settings on the MN-500, in particular change the SSID
and turn on WEP (or WPA if it supports it, I don't even know).

The broadband wizard can't see the MN-500. Even if I hard-reset it, it
can't see it, I thought I'd done this in the past and it worked. I know that
normally once it's set in bridge mode, you can't access it directly until
doing a hard reset.

Is there some reset other than just holding a pin in the reset hole until
the power light goes orange? I don't think this is setting to factory
settings, which I assume is what I'll need to do.

After all my reset attempts etc., it keeps working in bridge mode just fine
(serving the old AP SSID etc.) so it hasn't been reset to factory settings.

Ok, figured it out, I wasn't holding down the reset button long enough (after
5 or 6 seconds it starts to flash orange and green), which did the trick.
Looks like WPA isn't supported, but 128-bit WEP should be sufficient.

"Jim" wrote:

> I have an MN-500 in bridge mode - acting as an AP and switch, behind another
> router (Netgear) I use as my main router.
>
> I want to reset the AP settings on the MN-500, in particular change the SSID
> and turn on WEP (or WPA if it supports it, I don't even know).
>
> The broadband wizard can't see the MN-500. Even if I hard-reset it, it
> can't see it, I thought I'd done this in the past and it worked. I know that
> normally once it's set in bridge mode, you can't access it directly until
> doing a hard reset.
>
> Is there some reset other than just holding a pin in the reset hole until
> the power light goes orange? I don't think this is setting to factory
> settings, which I assume is what I'll need to do.
>
> After all my reset attempts etc., it keeps working in bridge mode just fine
> (serving the old AP SSID etc.) so it hasn't been reset to factory settings.
>

You can install the firmware manually if you have assigned it an IP
address in the same range as the other routers. For example change the
LAN IP address to 192.168.0.253 (assuming your router is running in the
192.168.0.* range just change the IP address to match the range you are
in) & then just browse to http://192.168.0.253 to administer it. You
can extract the firmware from the installation package using winrar
(winzip won't touch the file format used) to extract the contents & you
will find the .dlf file for your MN-500 in it.

AFAIK no 802.11b router ever supported WPA only WEP.

Jim wrote:
> Ok, figured it out, I wasn't holding down the reset button long enough (after
> 5 or 6 seconds it starts to flash orange and green), which did the trick.
> Looks like WPA isn't supported, but 128-bit WEP should be sufficient.
>
> "Jim" wrote:
>
>
>>I have an MN-500 in bridge mode - acting as an AP and switch, behind another
>>router (Netgear) I use as my main router.
>>
>>I want to reset the AP settings on the MN-500, in particular change the SSID
>>and turn on WEP (or WPA if it supports it, I don't even know).
>>
>>The broadband wizard can't see the MN-500. Even if I hard-reset it, it
>>can't see it, I thought I'd done this in the past and it worked. I know that
>>normally once it's set in bridge mode, you can't access it directly until
>>doing a hard reset.
>>
>>Is there some reset other than just holding a pin in the reset hole until
>>the power light goes orange? I don't think this is setting to factory
>>settings, which I assume is what I'll need to do.
>>
>>After all my reset attempts etc., it keeps working in bridge mode just fine
>>(serving the old AP SSID etc.) so it hasn't been reset to factory settings.
>>

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