R. Geoffrey Newbury schreef:

>>I have the same Linksys too lying here around. Mensys flogged me this  
>>one 2 years ago "it works absolutely for sure with OS/2",
 but of course 
>>it didn't/doesn't work at all. That router can't cope with mozilla 
>>apparently, or better, the routiers webpage is a can of html and 
>>javascript oddities and faults, with as a result it only can be handled 
>>by utterly unsafe programs, as the Internet Exploder is.
>>
>>    
>>
>Early Linksys router had a 'tainted' BIOS which only works with Wincrap
>Java. You will need a Windows machine to set up that  router. Then
>download and install a BIOS update from Linksys.
>
>  
>
A fact cunninly hidden to me by Mensys. Salesman, you know.

>In the first instance, BTW, I only needed the Windows machine for about 2
>minutes, in order to check the router's IP, turn off DHCP and enter a
>gateway address and some DNS addresses. 
>  
>
Basically, you were cheating. :-)

>Thereafter it worked perfectly, but I could not get it to save changes to
>the setup from Web Explorer or Netscape or Mozilla, until I did the BIOS
>update. Thereafter Mozilla etc was fine for administering the router.
>
>Linksys seems to use 192.168.1.1 as the default. If you are trying to get
>it working,
>
It's lying here still around, maybe I'll try it again. But prior to that 
I have to link my laptop + jacaranda blue to the router, so there are 
still houres of pain and trouble to come.

>I cannot remember whether the BIOS update required a re-boot into DOS/Win
>etc... I *think* I ran it in a DOS VDM from OS/2. RTFM.
>
>  
>
As Mensys they told me, you know, it's "simple and easy" 

-- 
Groeten uit Gent,

   Kris



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