Wireless Routers for Linux?

Tony Nelson tonynelson at georgeanelson.com
Fri Apr 21 00:33:32 UTC 2006


At 6:17 PM -0400 4/20/06, Bob Goodwin wrote:
 ...
>I think you could hold [reset] for an hour and no get back to defaults.  Tech
>support requested ten seconds and thought that was longer than required,
>I was watching my watch ...  The [WET54G] instructions also suggest
>cycling the power which also accomplished nothing.  Presently it is
>working on this XP box but I still can't access it with the specified
>192.168.1.226?  I bought it because it requires only an ethernet input,
>the required drivers are supposed to be built in.
 ...

I would expect that pressing reset only reboots the router.  Restoring to
factory defaults is something else.  Some routers allow it to be done
through another means, such as a serial port (as mine does), or through the
firmware updater.  I'd see what the manual said.
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