Resetting a DDWRT router and staring over

[yadda]

I just got a new main router (Linksys 4200). I'll call this R1. So I am trying to reset my Asus WL520GU. I'll call this one R2. This one had been setup as a wireless bridge. I have now reset it with the 30/30 to reconfigure it to point to the new R1. I am plugged directly into R2 but how do I get access to it??? When I go to 192.168.1.1 I get challenged for my new R1 router.

Thanks for any help...

 

[VirtualLarry]

I recall reading that once you set up a DD-WRT router into wireless bridge mode, you can no longer access it, unless you hold the RESET button in for 30 seconds, causing it to restore to factory settings. (Which, to be honest, I have had issues with with DD-WRT sometimes.)

 

[yadda]

Pretty sure that is where I am. It is at factory settings...

 

[VirtualLarry]

That doesn't make sense. You plug a network cable into R2, go to 192.168.1.1, and you get the page from R1?

Are you sure about that, if both are running DD-WRT, maybe you're confused as to which DD-WRT you are seeing.

If you reset R2 to factory defaults, it should prompt you upon first connection to 192.168.1.1 to set a password. Does it?

 

[yadda]

Crazy...I know. My new Linksys 4200 (R1) is not running DDWRT. Yes...I plug into R2 directly and I am passed thru to the R1 challenge.

I did run the netscan program from the machine behind R2 and I do not see the MAC of R2...WTH???

 

[Fardringle]

Disconnect the cable that is currently between R1 and R2, set a manual IP address on your PC in the 129.168.1.xxx range (or if the Asus is actually at default settings, then you'll get an IP address automatically), then go to 192.168.1.1 in your browser. Log in to the Asus, make whatever changes you want, and change its LAN IP address to something like 192.168.1.2. Reconnect the cable between the two routers, set your computer's IP back to automatic (if you changed it earlier) and now you should be able to get to the Linksys with 192.168.1.1 and the Asus with 192.168.1.2.

 

[JackMDS]

Disconnect the cable that is currently between R1 and R2, set a manual IP address on your PC in the 129.168.1.xxx range (or if the Asus is actually at default settings, then you'll get an IP address automatically), then go to 192.168.1.1 in your browser. Log in to the Asus, make whatever changes you want, and change its LAN IP address to something like 192.168.1.2. Reconnect the cable between the two routers, set your computer's IP back to automatic (if you changed it earlier) and now you should be able to get to the Linksys with 192.168.1.1 and the Asus with 192.168.1.2.

+1

Yap, all the configuration of the Bridge has to be done while it is connected with a wire plugged to one of its LAN port and the NIC of the stand alone computer that it suppose to serve as a Wireless card.

 

[yadda]

Disconnect the cable that is currently between R1 and R2, set a manual IP address on your PC in the 129.168.1.xxx range (or if the Asus is actually at default settings, then you'll get an IP address automatically), then go to 192.168.1.1 in your browser. Log in to the Asus, make whatever changes you want, and change its LAN IP address to something like 192.168.1.2. Reconnect the cable between the two routers, set your computer's IP back to automatic (if you changed it earlier) and now you should be able to get to the Linksys with 192.168.1.1 and the Asus with 192.168.1.2.

This is great and yes I get you....but there is no cable between R1 and R2.... R2 must be picking up a DHCP from R1...

 

[VirtualLarry]

Yes, clearly, R2 has NOT been factory reset (which I alluded to), and is still operating as a wireless bridge (which means that its own configuration page is hidden).

Either that, or the PC you are using to do the configuration, has BOTH ethernet and wireless, and the ethernet is plugged into R2, but the wireless is enabled, and automatically connected to R1, and is taking precedence.

 

[AD5MB]

if you connect the bridge, only, to a computer via a CAT5 cable on a LAN port it's the only thing that can respond. one computer, one device, no confusion

 

[notposting]

Yes, disable the wireless...then start working on connecting to R2.

Reset R2, try the default IP, etc etc.

 

[aylafan]

You should be able to access the 2nd router through IP address 192.168.1.2 if you try setting it up as a repeater bridge.

R1 - set up as a router (DHCP) 192.168.1.1
R2 - set up as a repeater bridge (grabs IP addresses from R1 for devices connected to R2) 192.168.1.2

http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Repeater_Bridge

This works perfectly for me for my home network. DD-WRT set up on 2 Linksys routers.

 

[yadda]

Thanks for everyone's suggestions but since my son's XBOX is the only thing hanging off this I am going to postpone this for a while since my son has decided to move 70 miles away and live with his girlfriend and her mom. WTF is up with this generation??!!! He has one chance to get ahead. He has been accepted to a welding school but he is not going. He has quit his one and only job. Such a disappointment...