From: "Lewis G Rosenthal" Received: from [192.168.100.28] (account lgrosenthal [192.168.100.28] verified) by 2rosenthals.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.1.16) with ESMTPSA id 2222363 for os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com; Mon, 15 Feb 2010 16:17:26 -0500 Message-ID: <4B79B9E6.3020801@2rosenthals.com> Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2010 16:17:26 -0500 Organization: Rosenthal & Rosenthal, LLC User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (OS/2; U; Warp 4.5; en-US; rv:1.8.1.23) Gecko/20090827 MultiZilla/1.8.3.5g SeaMonkey/1.1.18 (PmW) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: OS/2 Wireless Users Mailing List Subject: OT: Remote fixing, diagnostic tools, & SES (was: Re: [OS2Wireless] [Fwd: [OS2Wireless] LinkSys firmware emulators]) References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hey, Will! On 02/15/10 03:16 pm, Will Honea thus wrote : > ** Reply to message from "Lewis G Rosenthal" > on Mon, 15 Feb 2010 11:00:11 -0500 > > > >> 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!" >> > > LOL! Talk about topical material! > > I got two calls last week from my brothers. One is stuck in the snows of the > West Virginia hills, the other down near Ft. Hood in Texas. Both had computer > problems: one an HP laptop with an apparent bad drive, the other with a dead > keyboard ("but the mouse works!") and both wanted online help with "fixing" the > problem. The laptop was simple: send it to me but don't hold your breath. The > other was a little more challenging - until he revealed that he got tired of > reaching around back to plug things into a USB port. His solution was to get > an extender and plug 4 things into that. Of course, that overloaded the single > parent port's power capability and took out the whole hub (the extender had an > external power supply but he didn't think he need that). Once that was > established, sending him to Walmart to replace his 7-year old machine was an > obvious solution. > > Your moral is well taken: the telephone with a marginally (ahem!) qualified > tool on the other end is a very poor diagnostic... > > LOL! Thanks for sharing. This overloaded USB is an issue I see fairly often. Does anyone make a voltmeter to plug into a USB port? It would sure be a help. In fact, the output from my T43 is too low to charge a (most?) Blackberry or a (most?) Motorola phones/handhelds, though my Treo 680 seems to charge just fine from it. Ed: I don't believe there's a software/firmware function to disable the blasted button in the factory firmware (under DD-WRT, it can be disabled by disabling the reset button; I'm not quite sure how wise that may be, however). A couple interesting links relating to SES (SecureEasySetup): http://www.wi-fiplanet.com/reviews/article.php/3564396 http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/SES_Button Blasted little button...!! -- Lewis ------------------------------------------------------------- Lewis G Rosenthal, CNA, CLP, CLE Rosenthal & Rosenthal, LLC www.2rosenthals.com Need a managed Wi-Fi hotspot? www.hautspot.com visit my IT blog www.2rosenthals.net/wordpress -------------------------------------------------------------