Siemens SE587?

The other night my Netgear managed to corrupt its firmware mid upgrade,
via Wifi so I lost access.

As a standby in case of such problems I had the free from Tiscali
Siemens SE587 already set up, configured and ready to drop into place -
except I never checked it actually worked until my Netgear died.

I plugged it all in and got no response at all, so I did a reset and
then a factory reset. Setting my browser to look at its configuration
page, all I found was 192.168.1.1/WebBoot.html

That page had a drop down to browse my PC to upload a file. I assumed
for a firmware update and (once I had got my Netgear working again) I
managed to find a copy of the firmware and upload it. It seemed to
upload OK, but I could still only get into that WebBoot page.

Has anyone any suggestions what to try next please?

As a matter of interest - I managed to sort out the Netgear by plugging
it into a wired LAN connection and the use of Netgears 'Recovery Util'.
It doesn't seem to care what IP # your LAN card is set to, so long as
it has a wired connection. Usefully it retains all your configuration
just as before. So it just plugged back in and on. My biggest problem
was finding which PC I had stored the 'Recovery Util' on.


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Regards,
Harry (M1BYT) (L)
http://www.ukradioamateur.co.uk

Harry Bloomfield wrote:

> The other night my Netgear managed to corrupt its firmware mid upgrade,
> via Wifi so I lost access.
>
> As a standby in case of such problems I had the free from Tiscali
> Siemens SE587 already set up, configured and ready to drop into place -
> except I never checked it actually worked until my Netgear died.
>
> I plugged it all in and got no response at all, so I did a reset and
> then a factory reset. Setting my browser to look at its configuration
> page, all I found was 192.168.1.1/WebBoot.html
>
> That page had a drop down to browse my PC to upload a file. I assumed
> for a firmware update and (once I had got my Netgear working again) I
> managed to find a copy of the firmware and upload it. It seemed to
> upload OK, but I could still only get into that WebBoot page.
>
> Has anyone any suggestions what to try next please?
>
> As a matter of interest - I managed to sort out the Netgear by plugging
> it into a wired LAN connection and the use of Netgears 'Recovery Util'.
> It doesn't seem to care what IP # your LAN card is set to, so long as
> it has a wired connection. Usefully it retains all your configuration
> just as before. So it just plugged back in and on. My biggest problem
> was finding which PC I had stored the 'Recovery Util' on.

Have you got the manual for the 587 ? If not I did find it online.

Graham

Eeyore was thinking very hard :
>
> Harry Bloomfield wrote:
>
>> The other night my Netgear managed to corrupt its firmware mid upgrade,
>> via Wifi so I lost access.
>>
>> As a standby in case of such problems I had the free from Tiscali
>> Siemens SE587 already set up, configured and ready to drop into place -
>> except I never checked it actually worked until my Netgear died.
>>
>> I plugged it all in and got no response at all, so I did a reset and
>> then a factory reset. Setting my browser to look at its configuration
>> page, all I found was 192.168.1.1/WebBoot.html
>>
>> That page had a drop down to browse my PC to upload a file. I assumed
>> for a firmware update and (once I had got my Netgear working again) I
>> managed to find a copy of the firmware and upload it. It seemed to
>> upload OK, but I could still only get into that WebBoot page.
>>
>> Has anyone any suggestions what to try next please?
>>
>> As a matter of interest - I managed to sort out the Netgear by plugging
>> it into a wired LAN connection and the use of Netgears 'Recovery Util'.
>> It doesn't seem to care what IP # your LAN card is set to, so long as
>> it has a wired connection. Usefully it retains all your configuration
>> just as before. So it just plugged back in and on. My biggest problem
>> was finding which PC I had stored the 'Recovery Util' on.
>
> Have you got the manual for the 587 ? If not I did find it online.

I have the very brief Tiscali supplied one and probably he same one as
you which is on line - thanks..

--
Regards,
Harry (M1BYT) (L)
http://www.ukradioamateur.co.uk

Harry Bloomfield wrote:

> Eeyore was thinking very hard :
> >
> > Harry Bloomfield wrote:
> >
> >> The other night my Netgear managed to corrupt its firmware mid upgrade,
> >> via Wifi so I lost access.
> >>
> >> As a standby in case of such problems I had the free from Tiscali
> >> Siemens SE587 already set up, configured and ready to drop into place -
> >> except I never checked it actually worked until my Netgear died.
> >>
> >> I plugged it all in and got no response at all, so I did a reset and
> >> then a factory reset. Setting my browser to look at its configuration
> >> page, all I found was 192.168.1.1/WebBoot.html
> >>
> >> That page had a drop down to browse my PC to upload a file. I assumed
> >> for a firmware update and (once I had got my Netgear working again) I
> >> managed to find a copy of the firmware and upload it. It seemed to
> >> upload OK, but I could still only get into that WebBoot page.
> >>
> >> Has anyone any suggestions what to try next please?
> >>
> >> As a matter of interest - I managed to sort out the Netgear by plugging
> >> it into a wired LAN connection and the use of Netgears 'Recovery Util'.
> >> It doesn't seem to care what IP # your LAN card is set to, so long as
> >> it has a wired connection. Usefully it retains all your configuration
> >> just as before. So it just plugged back in and on. My biggest problem
> >> was finding which PC I had stored the 'Recovery Util' on.
> >
> > Have you got the manual for the 587 ? If not I did find it online.
>
> I have the very brief Tiscali supplied one and probably he same one as
> you which is on line - thanks..

There's a 'biggish' one online. It really goes into detail. Took ages to find
it.

Graham

On Wed, 27 Aug 2008 21:49:57 UTC, Harry Bloomfield
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> The other night my Netgear managed to corrupt its firmware mid upgrade,
> via Wifi so I lost access.

Really really bad idea. As you found out. :-)

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Dave Saville

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Harry Bloomfield wrote:
> The other night my Netgear managed to corrupt its firmware mid upgrade,
> via Wifi so I lost access.
>
> As a standby in case of such problems I had the free from Tiscali
> Siemens SE587 already set up, configured and ready to drop into place -
> except I never checked it actually worked until my Netgear died.
>
> I plugged it all in and got no response at all, so I did a reset and
> then a factory reset. Setting my browser to look at its configuration
> page, all I found was 192.168.1.1/WebBoot.html
>
> That page had a drop down to browse my PC to upload a file. I assumed
> for a firmware update and (once I had got my Netgear working again) I
> managed to find a copy of the firmware and upload it. It seemed to
> upload OK, but I could still only get into that WebBoot page.
>
> Has anyone any suggestions what to try next please?
>
> As a matter of interest - I managed to sort out the Netgear by plugging
> it into a wired LAN connection and the use of Netgears 'Recovery Util'.
> It doesn't seem to care what IP # your LAN card is set to, so long as it
> has a wired connection. Usefully it retains all your configuration just
> as before. So it just plugged back in and on. My biggest problem was
> finding which PC I had stored the 'Recovery Util' on.
>
>

Through a wired connection to the SE587 you should get a page at:

http://192.168.1.1

Have you tried holding in the reset button for 30 secs?

JR wrote:

> Through a wired connection to the SE587 you should get a page at:
>
> http://192.168.1.1

Yup. Or is it 1.2 ? You probably have it in front of you, I'm just guessing
from having to configure the neighbour's one.


> Have you tried holding in the reset button for 30 secs?

Is that a 'factory reset' ?

Graham