Dead Router?

broon

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My Linksys WRT150N router won't give me an IP. I've held the reset button, pulled the power, blah blah. I've tried using a LAN cable and wirelessly.

I have another working router which I've used to eliminate the possibility of a bad cable or NIC.
 

Crusty

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How long did you hold the reset down for? Sometimes it takes up to a minute to reset to factory.
 

broon

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Lights seem to be working fine. Right now it's not connected to a modem so the power is green, the port I connect the LAN cable to is green (I've tried all the ports), and the wireless light is green.
 

broon

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The only way I know how to reset to factory is by holding the reset button down for 30 seconds to a minute. Which I've done. It shows up as a wireless network but I can't connect to it. When I connect with the cable there is no host and my laptop IP is 168.x.x.x
 

VirtualLarry

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That happened to me. I bought a used Motorola WR850G, and when it came time for me to use it, I did the factory reset thing on it, and from then on, it didn't work, wouldn't give me an IP for the LAN connection, etc.

I junked it.
 

JackMDS

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After reset the Router suppose to have its default settings.

Connect it to one good computer, configure manually the computer's TCP/IP to a static IP of the same subnet as thr Router's default IP.

If you can not connect the Router's menu with the browser get another Router.