WRT54G setup page

I just replaced a Netgear WGR614 router with a Linksys WRT54G. No problems
setting it up via a hardwire to my laptop. I can also connect to the internet.
However after the setup I cannot access the setup page again either with my
wireless laptop or other computers on my network. I left the routers IP address
as default (192.168.1.1) and I disabled DHCP (I'm using it as an access point).
Do I have to wire directly to the Linksys to access the setup page again? Thanks

mike

Just link to the routers IP address with you desktop and put in a password.
It's "admin" to start until you change it. I believe you have to change a
setup parameter to access remotely.

Dave G


"Mike A." <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:z72dnTgSrMAJf_ffRVn-(E-Mail Removed)...
>I just replaced a Netgear WGR614 router with a Linksys WRT54G. No problems
>setting it up via a hardwire to my laptop. I can also connect to the
>internet. However after the setup I cannot access the setup page again
>either with my wireless laptop or other computers on my network. I left the
>routers IP address as default (192.168.1.1) and I disabled DHCP (I'm using
>it as an access point). Do I have to wire directly to the Linksys to access
>the setup page again? Thanks
>
> mike
>

Done that. Doesn't work. The only way I can connect to the router is if I wired
directly to it and reset it. I've tried using IE and Firefox and I've even
messed around with various lan settings. Everytime I do I get a timed out
message. I'm using the latest firmware (jan/05). Weird eh? I suppose I could
live with it since my connection seems okay.

mike

"Dave G" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:wtBae.10094$(E-Mail Removed). ..
> Just link to the routers IP address with you desktop and put in a password.
> It's "admin" to start until you change it. I believe you have to change a
> setup parameter to access remotely.
>
> Dave G
>
>
> "Mike A." <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:z72dnTgSrMAJf_ffRVn-(E-Mail Removed)...
>>I just replaced a Netgear WGR614 router with a Linksys WRT54G. No problems
>>setting it up via a hardwire to my laptop. I can also connect to the internet.
>>However after the setup I cannot access the setup page again either with my
>>wireless laptop or other computers on my network. I left the routers IP
>>address as default (192.168.1.1) and I disabled DHCP (I'm using it as an
>>access point). Do I have to wire directly to the Linksys to access the setup
>>page again? Thanks
>>
>> mike
>>
>
>

"Mike A." <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>I just replaced a Netgear WGR614 router with a Linksys WRT54G. No problems
>setting it up via a hardwire to my laptop. I can also connect to the internet.
>However after the setup I cannot access the setup page again either with my
>wireless laptop or other computers on my network. I left the routers IP address
>as default (192.168.1.1) and I disabled DHCP (I'm using it as an access point).
>Do I have to wire directly to the Linksys to access the setup page again? Thanks

I can't be sure, but... it's probably a matter of routing on
the WRT54G.

With DHCP enabled you get (using the defaults) an address range
of something like 50 or 100 addresses starting at 192.168.1.100.
It happens that the WRT54G by default will *only* route to that
set of addresses. Hence if you come along and try accessing it
from a host with an address in the 192.168.0.n range, as an
example, the WRT54G has no route back to your host. (You can
watch the lights an see that ping or attempts to access the web
page do cause activity, but you get no response because the
WRT54G has no route to your address.)

There are two ways to get around that. Change the WRT54G
routing or access it from a host with an address in the range it
will route to.

You need a way to access it to begin with, even if what you
eventually do is set a specific route in the WRT54G route
tables, so for now the only way to access it (short of doing a
reset and starting over) is via a host using an IP address it
will route to.

Use an address like 192.168.1.101 on the host you access the
WRT54G from. Most OS's will allow multiple IP address
assignments to an interface, so the easy way is to just add a
new IP to your existing interface configuration. If you can't
do that, you'll have to temporarily change from whatever it is
to an address in the range that works.

--
Floyd L. Davidson <http://web.newsguy.com/floyd_davidson>
Ukpeagvik (Barrow, Alaska) (E-Mail Removed)

"Floyd L. Davidson" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>
> I can't be sure, but... it's probably a matter of routing on
> the WRT54G.
>
<snip>

Thanks for your suggestions Floyd. That's actually a good idea. I'll enable DHCP
and configure an IP addy within range. That *should* work. I'm still working on
why it won't connect to the default IP. If I find an answer I'll let you know.

mike

"Mike A." <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>"Floyd L. Davidson" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>>
>> I can't be sure, but... it's probably a matter of routing on
>> the WRT54G.
>>
><snip>
>
>Thanks for your suggestions Floyd. That's actually a good idea. I'll enable DHCP
>and configure an IP addy within range. That *should* work. I'm still working on
>why it won't connect to the default IP. If I find an answer I'll let you know.

My point was *precisely* why it won't connect to the default IP.
It has no route back to you if *your* IP is not within the range
it knows about.

Don't change the WRT54G's IP, change the IP of the machine
running the web browser.

Of course, your host also has to have a route to the default IP
of the WRT54G, and you might want to check to make sure it
does. You can verify this fairly easily, by simply running ping
and watching the lights on the WRT54G. If you don't get any
flashing activity lights, then your host is not routing
192.168.1.1 to the ethernet interface. If you do get flashing
activity lights, then use a web browser to access the WRT54G,
and watch the lights again. If you see a little activity when
you hit enter on the web browser, but not big blast of activity
coming back as it sends a web page to you, then the WRT54G is
not routing packets to the address of your host.

You can change either the host's IP to be within the range the
WRT54G can handle, or set the route tables in the WRT54G to
handle whatever IP address your host uses.

--
Floyd L. Davidson <http://web.newsguy.com/floyd_davidson>
Ukpeagvik (Barrow, Alaska) (E-Mail Removed)

Suggest you use the hardwire connection to get back into the setup for the
WRT54G, and go to the Administration tab, verify that you you have web
access checked for HTTP or HTTPS (whichever you intend to use) and wireless
access web is enabled. Don't forget to save settings.

GZ

"Mike A." <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:z72dnTgSrMAJf_ffRVn-(E-Mail Removed)...
>I just replaced a Netgear WGR614 router with a Linksys WRT54G. No problems
>setting it up via a hardwire to my laptop. I can also connect to the
>internet. However after the setup I cannot access the setup page again
>either with my wireless laptop or other computers on my network. I left the
>routers IP address as default (192.168.1.1) and I disabled DHCP (I'm using
>it as an access point). Do I have to wire directly to the Linksys to access
>the setup page again? Thanks
>
> mike
>

Hoi,

I had simmilar prob with WRT54G, answer is that somewhere in the setup page
you have option to enable or disableWireless access to the router.. check
it, maybe in your setup wireless access is dissabled?

Jane


"Floyd L. Davidson" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> "Mike A." <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>>"Floyd L. Davidson" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>>news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>>>
>>> I can't be sure, but... it's probably a matter of routing on
>>> the WRT54G.
>>>
>><snip>
>>
>>Thanks for your suggestions Floyd. That's actually a good idea. I'll
>>enable DHCP
>>and configure an IP addy within range. That *should* work. I'm still
>>working on
>>why it won't connect to the default IP. If I find an answer I'll let you
>>know.
>
> My point was *precisely* why it won't connect to the default IP.
> It has no route back to you if *your* IP is not within the range
> it knows about.
>
> Don't change the WRT54G's IP, change the IP of the machine
> running the web browser.
>
> Of course, your host also has to have a route to the default IP
> of the WRT54G, and you might want to check to make sure it
> does. You can verify this fairly easily, by simply running ping
> and watching the lights on the WRT54G. If you don't get any
> flashing activity lights, then your host is not routing
> 192.168.1.1 to the ethernet interface. If you do get flashing
> activity lights, then use a web browser to access the WRT54G,
> and watch the lights again. If you see a little activity when
> you hit enter on the web browser, but not big blast of activity
> coming back as it sends a web page to you, then the WRT54G is
> not routing packets to the address of your host.
>
> You can change either the host's IP to be within the range the
> WRT54G can handle, or set the route tables in the WRT54G to
> handle whatever IP address your host uses.
>
> --
> Floyd L. Davidson <http://web.newsguy.com/floyd_davidson>
> Ukpeagvik (Barrow, Alaska) (E-Mail Removed)

"Mike A." <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
news:z72dnTgSrMAJf_ffRVn-(E-Mail Removed):

> I just replaced a Netgear WGR614 router with a Linksys WRT54G. No
> problems setting it up via a hardwire to my laptop. I can also connect
> to the internet. However after the setup I cannot access the setup
> page again either with my wireless laptop or other computers on my
> network. I left the routers IP address as default (192.168.1.1) and I
> disabled DHCP (I'm using it as an access point). Do I have to wire
> directly to the Linksys to access the setup page again? Thanks
>
> mike
>
>



You did enable "Remote Access", didn't you? It won't be accessable
by wireless connection otherwise.



Ed

On Sun, 24 Apr 2005 17:33:44 +0000, Ed wrote:

> "Mike A." <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
> news:z72dnTgSrMAJf_ffRVn-(E-Mail Removed):
>
>> I just replaced a Netgear WGR614 router with a Linksys WRT54G. No
>> problems setting it up via a hardwire to my laptop. I can also connect
>> to the internet. However after the setup I cannot access the setup page
>> again either with my wireless laptop or other computers on my network. I
>> left the routers IP address as default (192.168.1.1) and I disabled DHCP
>> (I'm using it as an access point). Do I have to wire directly to the
>> Linksys to access the setup page again? Thanks
>>
>> mike
>
> You did enable "Remote Access", didn't you? It won't be accessable
> by wireless connection otherwise.

i thought remote access was the ability to configure the router from
anywhere on the internet, not just the local network?