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Lewis G Rosenthal wrote:
> Thanks, Ed!
>
> On 02/15/10 02:09 am, Ed Durrant thus wrote :
>> Hi Lewis,
>>  I have a Linksys WRT54G running factory firmware if I can help in 
>> some way.
>>
> As it turns out, it was relatively simple: my clients' son wanted to 
> connect his X-box to the router. Unfortunately, the instructions they 
> (both parents and the kid) followed had them bridging the connection 
> through a connected workstation(!) via the ethernet port (the 
> "workstation" was a ThinkPad SL400, connected wirelessly), and 
> assigning a static IP (on a completely different subnet with no 
> routing information). When this didn't work (obviously), they tried 
> all manner of reconnection for the ThinkPad, the configuration of 
> which was totally hosed at that point, including hitting the <ahem> 
> "reset" button on the "front of the little blue box." Naturally, this 
> "reset" button was none other than the one-step security button, which 
> blew away all of the Wi-Fi config I had in the box...
>
> Once I got "the rest of the story," and had a look at the WRT54G 
> emulater, it was a simple fix to walk them through the configuration 
> to get things back to normal. :-)
>
> Note to self: Don't ever assume things are as easy for anyone else as 
> they may appear to be to me. The next time someone asks if he can 
> "plug in his X-box," say, "you'd better leave that to me!"
>
> Cheers/2
>
I wonder if its possible to disable that one-step security button (which 
I don't have on my WRT54G, being one of the original models) in the 
setup, to stop them doing the same again ?

-- 
Cheers/2

Ed

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