"Lee M." <lmacmil@forget_it.com> hath wroth:
>Just upgraded the firmware on my Netgear WGR614 v.1
This one?
<http://kbserver.netgear.com/products/wgr614v1.asp>
>so I could get WPA
>security (old firmware had only WEP). Now I have no internet and network
>connection on 2 wireless PCs (running Win2k and Vista). On the Vista
>machine (a Toshiba laptop) the IPv4 connectivity is shown as "local" and the
>IPv6 is "limited." Everything was working fine before the firmware upgrade
>(went from 1200 to 1400.) Any suggestions? The previous firmware is not on
>the Netgear site but one version earlier than 1400 is (1126).
Version 1100 is also posted on the web site.
>Any suggestions? (please don't tell me to buy another router.)
I've had firmware update failures with later hardware versions of the
Netgear WGR614. The v1 version is really old. I never could figure
out what was causing them to fail. Recovery was just stomping on the
reset button, renewing the DHCP lease, going to the firmware upgrade
page, and doing it again. My guess(tm) is that it was some side
effect of the settings in the router and that resetting the router
BEFORE doing the upgrade may have been needed. Yes, this trashes all
the previous settings, but one should assume that they will be lost
after a firmware update anyway.
After punching reset, see if it will deliver a DCHP assigned IP
address to your computah. Also check if it will respond to a ping to
192.168.0.1. Watch out for "personal firewalls" on your PC. It
might be something as simple as the IP address of the router changed
after the update. If DHCP and ping work, you have a chance at getting
the web page up and recovering. The bad news is that Netgear
apparently (not sure) does not have a built in TFTP server. If you
can't get the web pages up, you're stuck.
Actually, that's not quite correct. The WGR614v4 runs Linux and
probably has a TFTP server. See open source shopping list at:
<http://kbserver.netgear.com/inquira/default.asp?ui_mode=answer&prior_transaction_id=41 59187&action_code=5&highlight_info=16778137,6,10&t url=http%3A%2F%2Fkbserver.netgear.com%2Fkb_web_fil es%2Fn101238.asp&answer_id=61758055#__highlight>
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