Wireless Routers for Linux?

[Bob Goodwin]

John Mason Jr wrote:

> Bob Goodwin wrote:
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>> Can anyone suggest a "wireless" router they have had success with?
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>> I bought a Linksys WRT54g, gave up on it and returned it.  The 
>> installation software only works with Windows and our efforts at 
>> installing it on a Mac were frustrating to say the least. Tech 
>> support is through New Delhi, the people are fine but the language 
>> problem is near impossible!  That was replaced with a Belkin 54g 
>> which at least came with usable installation software  but the 
>> quality is poor,  I'm about to return the second one with an 
>> intermittent power connector which has been causing maddening problems.
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> You should be able to enter all the setup info via web interface


Yes, if you can bring up the web interface, it doesn't always work.

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>> My FC5 Linux system has a Linksys WET54G "wireless" bridge.  I 
>> discovered that when you get that configured wrong there is no way to 
>> restore factory defaults except with a Windows computer and the 
>> supplied installation software.
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> Linksys user manual shows a reset button, but this may be different 
> than your model/version number

The instructions tell you to press reset and/or pull the power plug and 
if that fails use the install software.  I have never been able to 
verify that the reset button does anything of value to me?  I've pressed 
it numerous times to no avail.

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>> The HP6840 printer has the RF link built in but has a button pressing 
>> routine that will restore the defaults without the provided software!
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>> Any thoughts on the best solution to my problems will be 
>> appreciated.  This router needs to be returned but is there something 
>> else that will be better suited to my situation or should I risk 
>> another of the same type?  Ideally something that would be manageable 
>> from my FC5 system.
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> Might look at openwrt.com to help select your hardware, this would 
> give you some options

Good, thank you I will look at that page.

>> I realize this is not a straight forward FC-5 problem but my Linux 
>> computer won't work on-line until I get this worked out and I doubt 
>> I'm the only one with problems like this.
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>> Thank you.
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>> Bob Goodwin   Zuni, Virginia
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> John
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Thanks for the reply.      BobG