[ale] linksys wrt54GL router-weird..

Greg Freemyer greg.freemyer at gmail.com
Mon Oct 12 16:44:10 EDT 2009


On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 3:02 PM, Scott Castaline <skotchman at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/12/2009 01:53 PM, Paul Cartwright wrote:
>> ok, so I was using my wifes laptop, and all of a sudden I couldn't go to
>> either my.yahoo.com or google.com. other links worked just fine,
>> onlineathens.... most other URLS.. except att.net would try to resolve to
>> att.my.yahoo.com and fail.
>> booted a Live CD and everything worked. everything worked on my Debian
>> desktop, including yahoo&  google..... plug in my OLD linksys wrt160N, and it
>> worked fine. plug wrt54gl back in, nada. upgraded to dd-wrt and it now works
>> again. at least now I am on dd-wrt. I was going to leave the original
>> firmware in the 54gl for 2 weeks ( just installed this puppy!) but not after
>> that issue! and yes, I changed the default user/password on the linksys, but
>> I keep the wireless open. If I catch you coming up my driveway with a laptop,
>> trying to steal my internet, I'll shoot first and ask questions later:-0)
>>
> Grumpy old man, you're no fun

Just park on the street, then if he is sending wireless at you he
can't complain if you catch some of it.

Greg



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