[ale] wrt54gl router

[Sean McNealy]

I may just be saying this so you can laugh at my expense and not feel
too bad, but just this week I messed with my DD-WRT router and DSL
modem for an hour or two thinking they were totally messed up.
Firefox had gone into "work offline" mode somewhere in troubleshooting
the devices when I didn't have a connection and there was lots of
weirdness after that.  I thought I was changing settings, then things
would crash, then settings wouldn't have been saved...

I still don't know how I was supposed to set up an AT&T account
without guessing random URLs (maybe there were more instructions that
I didn't find/read).

-Sean

On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 7:35 PM, Paul Cartwright <ale at pcartwright.com> wrote:
> the good news is I got my new WRT54GL router from Amazon today..
> the bad news is, it be broke. According to tech support I need to return it (
> bricked?)
> I installed DD-WRT mini, then generic. All of a sudden all the menu tabs were
> in ...chinese?? so, I hit the return-to-defaults button, and it seemed to go
> back to the original. but it just went downhill from there. never connecting,
> connecting, pinging, but web browser never worked. Mike at atnex was very
> nice & patient & helpful, but he said it might be bricked..
> my OLD linksys 160N also seems to be broke, so I'm back to connecting directly
> to the modem!
> time to go watch UGA, maybe there will be some GOOD news!
>
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> Paul Cartwright
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