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Jezmeister
Senior Member
United Kingdom
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 Posted - 07 April 2008 : 14:37:30
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I'm trying to get my dads router working for him while i'm home for a week and I've hit one immediate snag... he didn't know what he'd originally set as username and password so i hit the reset button and held it in order to reset to factory settings - the network then did show as its default name but for some reason denies access for the default uname & pwd (blank username and 'admin') - google can't seem to give me an answer, wondered if any of you guys had any ideas? if it makes any difference i can only try it from vista at the moment... but i don't think that should cause that... think & should lol
be very grateful for any suggestions :)
edit, its a linksys 'WRT54G' btw |
Edited by - Jezmeister on 07 April 2008 14:38:55 |
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AnonJr
Moderator
United States
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Posted - 07 April 2008 : 14:56:58
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Have you tried using the disk that came with it? Theoretically it shouldn't make a difference, and in the past I've always set them up without the disk, but it doesn't hurt to try the simple stuff first.  |
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HuwR
Forum Admin
United Kingdom
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Posted - 07 April 2008 : 14:58:42
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did you try admin/admin ? it is unusual to have a blank username as default
Vista may be a problem, in IE try enabling SSL 2.0 (it is disabled by default under Vista as it is insecure) |
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Jezmeister
Senior Member
United Kingdom
1141 Posts |
Posted - 07 April 2008 : 15:02:28
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| done all to no avail :( and i've tried just about every default username and password combination i can think of - the readme clearly states no username and password as admin though... |
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HuwR
Forum Admin
United Kingdom
20579 Posts |
Posted - 07 April 2008 : 15:07:11
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| try using FF to log in rather than IE |
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Jezmeister
Senior Member
United Kingdom
1141 Posts |
Posted - 07 April 2008 : 15:13:25
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I've been using opera  tried IE to make sure it wasn't opera - guess trying FF couldn't hurt
edit: same as opera and IE... |
Edited by - Jezmeister on 07 April 2008 15:26:36 |
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RichardKinser
Snitz Forums Admin
USA
16655 Posts |
Posted - 07 April 2008 : 16:10:38
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| after resetting the router using the reset button, have you tried unplugging it and then plugging it back in? |
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Jezmeister
Senior Member
United Kingdom
1141 Posts |
Posted - 07 April 2008 : 16:25:05
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| yep, followed all the instructions on resetting it to a t, three times. |
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phy1729
Average Member
USA
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Posted - 07 April 2008 : 17:24:35
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| Are you connected to it? Can you ping/telnet it? |
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Jezmeister
Senior Member
United Kingdom
1141 Posts |
Posted - 07 April 2008 : 17:37:29
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yep connection to it is fine - all pings in ~ a millisecond so there's nothing wrong there.
Ooook, i just managed to get a program from the manufacturer which displays the settings even though I can't edit them - the username is blank and the password is admin... however I still can't login with them... this is weird lol
Final edit, i'm now nearly 100% convinced this isn't the router but some setting in Vista, I've checked over all the settings in IE7 and any other network related settings I can find but given that the router itself shows the correct info I'm just gonna wait til I can try it off Vista and see what happens, thanks for helping guys  |
Edited by - Jezmeister on 07 April 2008 18:38:02 |
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phy1729
Average Member
USA
589 Posts |
Posted - 07 April 2008 : 18:45:49
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| Have you tried another computer? |
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Jezmeister
Senior Member
United Kingdom
1141 Posts |
Posted - 07 April 2008 : 18:51:50
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Not had the opportunity to yet, dads left his laptop at work. i was going to wait for kubuntu 8.04 before sorting this laptop out with it but... i'm really not liking vista lol
Oh this is bugging me now, just tried it on another computer, wired up only - which despite setup and my laptop recognising it as reset (note this comp has never been connected to it before) it recognises it under its old name... not only that i can no longer even ping the router - I just get timeouts or destination unreachable on both wired and wireless - despite the setup cd being able to reach it etc |
Edited by - Jezmeister on 08 April 2008 06:53:49 |
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AnonJr
Moderator
United States
5765 Posts |
Posted - 08 April 2008 : 15:55:11
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| Might want to try the factory reset procedure again... sounds like something might not have reset properly. |
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Jezmeister
Senior Member
United Kingdom
1141 Posts |
Posted - 08 April 2008 : 16:51:22
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I have absolutely no idea how it happened but I just tried it again and it miraculously worked... nothing changed - hadn't even restarted it... it just started working... I think I want to cry lol but at least it works I guess
thanks everyone... |
Edited by - Jezmeister on 08 April 2008 16:51:45 |
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HuwR
Forum Admin
United Kingdom
20579 Posts |
Posted - 08 April 2008 : 17:19:21
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| aren't techie things great |
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golfmann
Junior Member
United States
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Posted - 08 April 2008 : 17:36:32
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lol
glad to be of help.... :) |
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