Linksys Router woes (WRT54G3G)

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antonbijl

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Got a lovely little Linksys 3G gateway/router/wireless hub and it's been working like a charm.

Some time during the last week I logged onto the web-based admin console and noticed that the interface seemed a bit jumbled. Buttons appearing in wrong place, fonts were a bit scrambled etc. Rebooted it, and sudddenly it wasn't assinging an IP address to my laptop. Rebooted it again and this time got an IP address.

Nothing odd has happened to the router physically. It's been sitting quitely on my desk. I figured it might be time to upgrade the firmware.

Downloaded the latest firmware from the Vodacom website (1.99.8).

This seemed to fix it to some extent. DHCP is working consistently and the interface looks sorted.

When I log onto the admin console without the 3G datacard inserted, everything is hunky dory. If I plug in the datacard (U740) everything goes haywire. The web-based interface no longer works (in IE, I get "Page not found" and in FF I get "connection refused").

I've tried the restart button, but nothing... Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
 
Try to reset (not reboot) the device. Then reload the latest firmware, reboot and then reconfigure. I think the IOS might be corrupted.
 
I have tried reset (I see I said restart in my previous post, that was meant to be reset). No luck. I think I'm returning it. After the latest firmware upgrade I cannot access the firmware upgrade page in web-based console anymore.

Then found an exe util for upgrading the firmware on the linksys uk site, but this just hangs when I run it.
 
Linksys modems are bogged with problems, buy yourself an SMC next time ;)
 
Have you tried setting up again via the supplied CD and cable connection? Mine went hay-wire a week or so ago... didn't want to connect, bad behaviour in general. Even a hard reset couldn't get it right. Did the CD thing and everything is cool now. Hope you come right... they are really little marvels of technology :-)
 
APG said:
Have you tried setting up again via the supplied CD and cable connection? Mine went hay-wire a week or so ago... didn't want to connect, bad behaviour in general. Even a hard reset couldn't get it right. Did the CD thing and everything is cool now. Hope you come right... they are really little marvels of technology :-)
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I would have, except I seem to have lost the CD. Have downloaded the util from the web (can't remember if it was linksys or Vodacom's site) but this didn't seem to do much. Have also been a bit busy, so not a lot of time to tinker with it.
 
Bought a WRT54G3G and trying to us it with the MTN card. and its a no go. There must be software to overcome the vodafone only option:confused:...

Any advice ??
 
PJ Cilliers said:
Bought a WRT54G3G and trying to us it with the MTN card. and its a no go. There must be software to overcome the vodafone only option:confused:...

Any advice ??
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From the supplier: if it's got Vodafone branding, that's it: ALL it can do is a Vodacom card ..but if you have a non-branded one, it's a generic unit (look by the serial number for "-EN") and can talk to MTN.
 
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