Linksys wireless router/wap update

[Michael Hipp]

Joel Hammer wrote:
> Just a few items of interest.
> 
> I paid $70 for a combined router/wap at Best Buy last
> week(Linksys WRT54G). They had the wap only device for sale
> for the same price. I told the salesman that was dumb. Now,
> they want $99 for the wap alone and the WRT54G is $80 and
> has a $10 rebate. Go figure.
> 
> All the WRT54G's were sold out.
> 
> Leider muss ich sagen, my unit has stopped working
> properly. It still gives a strong signal but constantly
> drops the connection with my wireless laptop, which
> reverts to the XP private IP, and stopped assigning IP's
> and refused to let me erase the current DHCP clients.
> 
> This reversion of the IP number occurs even though I have
> the DHCP server feature turned off on the router and have
> my linux DHCP server assigning addresses.
> 
> Hooking my laptop backup with a cable solves these
> problems.
> 
> All in all not too good. The only thing that might account
> for this is letting the unit lie on a blanket which blocked
> the cooling ports on the bottom. It got hot. I'll let
> it cool for a day and see if it starts working before I
> give up.

I've used and installed scads of LinkSys equipment with few problems. 
Except ... their wireless routers. On other forums I frequent the 
LinkSys wireless routers are uniformly viewed as flakey. Dunno why.

You might try a firmware upgrade. Other than that I'd say try to take it 
back and trade for another brand.

Michael