(admin thingies generally won't work with wireless)
You can enable wireless admin on most routers. But by default, yeah, you only get admin via Ethernet.
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tommyrot - Mar 18, 2008 6:51:17 am PDT #5227 of 25501
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Jessica - Mar 18, 2008 6:51:39 am PDT #5228 of 25501
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
You need to be connected by cable to the linksys to get to the admin thingie (admin thingies generally won't work with wireless)
Really? Mine does.
amych - Mar 18, 2008 6:54:10 am PDT #5229 of 25501
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Really? Mine does.
Huh. None of mine ever have -- or maybe it could be enabled as tommyrot suggests, but you have to get access to it first...
Pix - Mar 18, 2008 6:55:25 am PDT #5230 of 25501
The status is NOT quo.
Huh. I've never used an ethernet with linksys before. I think the problem may be that I need to adjust the IP to be static...or something. I'm going to google help.
I'm using the new MacBook Pro, tommy.
Jessica - Mar 18, 2008 6:56:54 am PDT #5231 of 25501
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I don't remember enabling it, but I haven't upgraded my router in..wow, probably 5 years, at least. So it's probably something I turned on when we first hooked it up and then forgot about.
Gris - Mar 18, 2008 7:00:03 am PDT #5232 of 25501
Hey. New board.
My parent's linksys can be adminned wirelessly out of the box. So can my Airport Express, but that seems like a necessity what with it only HAVING wireless.
Kristin, what IP address is the router giving your computer? Usually if you take your served IP and change the last number to "1" then you get admin. E.g. the Airport Express serves 10.0.0.xxx IPs, and 10.0.0.1 is it's admin IP.
Pix - Mar 18, 2008 7:06:35 am PDT #5233 of 25501
The status is NOT quo.
Gris, here's what I've got.
When I try to join my mini-network via linksys, the computer claims to remember the WEP password but then tells me that the connection failed.
Using the Ethernet,
IP address = 172.16.1.47
Subnet Mask = 255.255.0.0
Router = 172.16.0.1
tommyrot - Mar 18, 2008 7:17:47 am PDT #5234 of 25501
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
This is an educated guess, but the fact that:
IP address = 172.16.1.47
Subnet Mask = 255.255.0.0
sounds to me like your Mac isn't getting the correct IP address from the router (via DHCP) so it's just assigning its own IP address and subnet mask. Both of my Mac laptops would do that when they didn't get stuff via DHCP and/or the signal was too weak. A subnet mask of 255.255.0.0 is not what one would generally use on a small network - 255.255.255.0 would be far more likely.
Also, 172.16.1.47 sounds like a "real" internet IP address, and not one like 192.168.0.1 like you'd see on a local network.
eta: Have you tried restarting the router?
Gris - Mar 18, 2008 7:22:47 am PDT #5235 of 25501
Hey. New board.
Yes, I agree with tommy. Something's screwy with the DHCP on your Linksys.
If I were in your shoes, I'd use the hard reset button on the router to put all settings to default and rebuild them.
eta: that is, after I did what tommy suggests. Unplug and replug!
Pix - Mar 18, 2008 7:27:19 am PDT #5236 of 25501
The status is NOT quo.
Unplug and replug!Sadly, I have already done this.