My netgear router light has gone orange....

My mistake was to go on holiday and turn off my router which has worked
fine for a couple of years.....

I use a dell insipron laptop and connect to the internet via a netgear
wireless hub.

When I came back and turned on my stuff and my connection suddenly
didn't work. My wireless doesn't pickup my own connection.

So I connected wired to the router and it doesn't give me a dhcp and I
noticed that the power light is solid amber rather and I think it used
to be green.

Just to be sure it is the router, if I connect the laptop wired to the
internet modem then all is well so I figure the laptop and ISP are not
the problem.

Any ideas for my amber light router? I've tried a reset/restore
factory settings and neither have any visible effect at all....

Thanks in advance

K.


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kornealius wrote:
> My mistake was to go on holiday and turn off my router which has
> worked fine for a couple of years.....
>
> I use a dell insipron laptop and connect to the internet via a netgear
> wireless hub.
>
> When I came back and turned on my stuff and my connection suddenly
> didn't work. My wireless doesn't pickup my own connection.
>
> So I connected wired to the router and it doesn't give me a dhcp and I
> noticed that the power light is solid amber rather and I think it used
> to be green.
>
> Just to be sure it is the router, if I connect the laptop wired to the
> internet modem then all is well so I figure the laptop and ISP are not
> the problem.
>
> Any ideas for my amber light router? I've tried a reset/restore
> factory settings and neither have any visible effect at all....
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> K.
>
>
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What order did you turn the equiptment on in? Used to have that problem when
I turned both the modem and wap/router on at the same time... Now I do the
modem FIRST, give it a minute or so and THEN turn on the wap/router... You
didn't say what order, but you may want to give it a shot (hey, it's free!

kornealius <(E-Mail Removed)> hath wroth:

>Any ideas for my amber light router? I've tried a reset/restore
>factory settings and neither have any visible effect at all....

Nope. Any particular model number Netgear router? Extra credit for
also disclosing the hardware version number.

Also, which light is amber/orange? What's the label on the light say?

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Hi!

> Also, which light is amber/orange? What's the label on the light say?

I think the OP said that they plugged in a network cable and got an orange
link light.

On my WGR-614v6 (and some others) that means you've got a 10 megabit link
(!!!!) instead of a 100 megabit link, which is the normal green light. It's
not mentioned in the manual that I can see...and I was pleasantly surprised
to see after plugging in a PS/2 Model 95 that there was a means of determing
link speed by light color included with it. Too bad the rest of it doesn't
work all that well...

William

"William R. Walsh"
<(E-Mail Removed) m> hath wroth:

>> Also, which light is amber/orange? What's the label on the light say?
>
>I think the OP said that they plugged in a network cable and got an orange
>link light.

Nope. I re-read the original and it was the power light:
"I noticed that the power light is solid amber rather and I
think it used to be green."
I missed that line. Without the model number, I can tell if that's
normal or means something important.

>On my WGR-614v6 (and some others) that means you've got a 10 megabit link
>(!!!!) instead of a 100 megabit link, which is the normal green light.

What color is the Netgear power light normally? What color while
booting?

>It's
>not mentioned in the manual that I can see.

I never read the manual until after I get into trouble. It's a matter
of pride. I have to maintain the illusion that I know everything
(except the color of the Netgear pilot light).

>..and I was pleasantly surprised
>to see after plugging in a PS/2 Model 95 that there was a means of determing
>link speed by light color included with it. Too bad the rest of it doesn't
>work all that well...

We used to use those as servers around 1987. 486DX33 CPU's.

I just tossed a PS/2 Muddle 30-286. The reason it took so long is
that there were tons of other PS/2 boxes and parts on top of it. Good
riddance. Want a large box of assorted PS/2 boards cheap? Most were
pulled from Model 95 servers.

Cramming an ATX motherboard into a Model 95 case:
<http://kentie.net/article/ps2atx/index.htm>

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Skype: JeffLiebermann AE6KS 831-336-2558

Hi!

> Nope. I re-read the original and it was the power light:

Ah, OK. Don't know how I missed that, but I did. An amber power light
doesn't sound good. I've not heard of one doing that before.

> What color is the Netgear power light normally? What color while
> booting?

On my WGR614v6, the startup process goes something like this:
All lights on
All lights off
Power light on
Radio light blinks
Ethernet port lights come in if anything is attached them and alive
Up and running

There's a "check mark" that should come on if the unit is completely up and
working, but it doesn't seem to apply in the bridge mode.

> I never read the manual until after I get into trouble. It's a matter
> of pride. I have to maintain the illusion that I know everything
> (except the color of the Netgear pilot light).

I didn't touch it until I was curious--as in "that's an interesting feature.
I wonder if they talk about it in the book." Not a word was said.

> We used to use those as servers around 1987. 486DX33 CPU's.

This one has the clock doubling (50MHz) "L" complex in it. I have some DX33
boards, but they don't see regular use.

> I just tossed a PS/2 Muddle 30-286. The reason it took so long is
> that there were tons of other PS/2 boxes and parts on top of it.

Any 9585 K/N boxen in there? I've been looking and wanting one for *years*.
I have lots of 9585-xXx boxen.

> Want a large box of assorted PS/2 boards cheap? Most were
> pulled from Model 95 servers.

Sure, why not. Almost anything is interesting and could be put to good use.
(For whatever it might be worth, I have an operating Token Ring notwork
bridged to my Ethernet toys by way of an IBM 8229.)

wct <atsign> walshcomptech <dot> com

> Cramming an ATX motherboard into a Model 95 case:
> <http://kentie.net/article/ps2atx/index.htm>

Sacrilege! Aaaah! :-)

William

Hi!

> On my WGR614v6, the startup process goes something like
> this:
> All lights on
> All lights off
> Power light on
> Radio light blinks
> Ethernet port lights come in if anything is attached them and
> alive
> Up and running

And, of course, all during the startup process, the lights are green.
I didn't know that any of the indicators on it were capable of any
other color, but at least the Ethernet indicators are.

> > I just tossed a PS/2 Muddle 30-286.

While on the subject...in amongst the things you've been tossing out,
were there any Dallas clock modules? (DS1287/12887/1387) I'm
interested in getting my hands on as many of those as I can, and I
don't care if they are depleted or not:

(warning: going off topic a bit)

http://www.walshcomptech.com/ps2/dallasrework.html
http://greyghost.dyndns.org/ds1387rework/

William

"William R. Walsh"
<(E-Mail Removed) m> hath wroth:

>Any 9585 K/N boxen in there? I've been looking and wanting one for *years*.
>I have lots of 9585-xXx boxen.

Nope. No planars (motherboards) in the pile. Since I figured no sane
person would ever want them, when we scrapped out the Model 95's, we
only kept the stuff that was easily removeable. Before you accuse me
of lack of imagination and forsight, management wanted to toss the
whole server farm, and I organized a last minute salvage operation. It
was the best I could do in one afternoon. Most of the pile was then
sold over the years. I'm down to about 70 assorted PS/2 plugin cards.

Hint: I collect old red LED HP calculators.

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Jeff Liebermann (E-Mail Removed)
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Santa Cruz CA 95060 http://802.11junk.com
Skype: JeffLiebermann AE6KS 831-336-2558

(E-Mail Removed) hath wroth:

>And, of course, all during the startup process, the lights are green.
>I didn't know that any of the indicators on it were capable of any
>other color, but at least the Ethernet indicators are.

We still don't know the model number of the Netgear router. The color
may be different for different models. I won't speculate or try to
remember the boot (color) sequence. I tried using the Netgear
knowledge base search thing for at least the last 60 minutes and am
getting:

Support Search is Unavailable

The search engine for the NETGEAR North American Support is
unavailable for 5 minutes while implementing new features
or indexing new documents.

The connection with the server was terminated abnormally : 80072EFE

Oh well. I really miss the good old days of honest error messages.

>While on the subject...in amongst the things you've been tossing out,
>were there any Dallas clock modules? (DS1287/12887/1387) I'm
>interested in getting my hands on as many of those as I can, and I
>don't care if they are depleted or not:

Actually yes. They all probably have dead batteries inside, but you
might get lucky. When I immolated all my 286 motherboards on the
hibachi as sacrifice to the computer gods, I kept some of the easily
removable parts. I'll look.

>(warning: going off topic a bit)
>
>http://www.walshcomptech.com/ps2/dallasrework.html
>http://greyghost.dyndns.org/ds1387rework/

Yuck. Dremel grinding is a bit drastic. It could easily shatter the
crystal or IC wire bonds. I like to use a chemical attack. Hysol
Epoxy Dissolver. I don't have the docs handy, but I think there's a
new improved version available from Dextor. It's mostly alcohol of
some sort and is very handy for reverse engineering potted modules.
Paint stripper sometimes works. Details when I find them.
<http://www.google.com/patents?id=-aABAAAAEBAJ&dq=4294729>

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Jeff Liebermann <(E-Mail Removed)> fired this volley in
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> Hint: I collect old red LED HP calculators.
>
Yeah, but Jeff... they still WORK! (even the keys)

LLoyd