Linksys wrt54g2 router setup mac

The problem is with the lean firmware that Linksys supplies with the WRT54x. The router is simply not issuing an ip to yourMac. Upgrade the firmware on the device to a third-party version. However, Linksys cripples it with a junky firmware. This Mac problem is another example of this. I had my wife bring home her ibook G4 1. In absolutely no time I was surfing on the iBook. Okay, my turn. Now, after many weeks of battle with the router and my ISP, I have finally gotten the computer to connect to the router and the router to the internet -so I know all my router settings are essentialy correct.

If you have a pc already connected to the router go to start-run-cmd type ipconfig and change yours address. I just got the WRT54gs v5. Should I have connected via DHCP — in that case, how I tried all combinations of turning off the computer, than swithing on modem, router, and computer sequentially — nothing worked.

When it comes to cloning the MAC address I have to do this by manually entering http: Can anyone explain why this option is missing from my menu? However neither the Mac wired to the Router and modem nor the PC connected wireless can access the internet. Thank you all. It works. Also i figured how to reset the password to access the setup page of the router. Great ideas and good stuff here. Anyway , my story. The router works perfectly in B and G mode but there are some things u need to set up correctly. Clone mac address. This is needed as a lot of ISP match a user id to a mac address.

You need to clone the mac address into the router so regardless of who logs onto the network the router mac address is the one your isp sees. I use PSK personal security. All u do is type in a passphrase in the wireless security set up page and then enter the same passpgrase when Airport asks for it. Remember to click remember password at this time and from now on Airport will log on automatically. I have being using this security since buying my Macbook and had no problems at all. IP addresses. This is probably the area that is the biggest problem for most people..

I use DHCP and set range from This allows 10 users oon my network. The issue thst causes a lot of problems is that people are using macs and win machines that they use to connect to a variety of networks that alll use different IP ranges. If all the machines on your network are not in the same range with the same subnets yoou will get all sorts f problems like loosing wireless conectivity, loosinf internet etc.

If you use your computer in more than 1 location yu need to use the Location tab. This is a great system that mac os x as it allows u to have different settings for networks in different locations. For mac users the network assistant is very helpful in helping u to set the networks up.

I use multiple networks because of my wprk and depending upon where i am i just change the location. Again I have been using this system for over a year now and have had no problems. Hope this info is of sone use to you all and yes, Linksys support is pretty sad. The issue was that the firmware I had in the router 1. I bought the WRT54G router to run with my cable modem. The plan was to leave my iMac wired and use my PC laptop wirelessly. Plus a Vonage phone thrown into the mix. I read this entire thread before getting started, and ended up having no problems.

My firmware was version 8. The iMac immediately connected! Maybe someone else can explain the reason behind this, but it worked for me. Thanks to all for your tips and advice.

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I followed all of these steps with my new imac and my wrt54g router. I got everything setup. Got a network name and password. I can not get this router to send an internet signal to anything. Been at this for 6 hours now. What do I do?! I know have one iBook and one Dell connected via Ethernet cables. Anyone have suggestions? Wow, thanks to everyone who posted. I had the same problems, so went to Best Buy and set up an appt. I pay stupid! Wading out to unchartered waters now..

I have an airport extreme network. Use a pc wirelessly, and my mac g4 is connected via an ethernet cable. Just got a slingbox, need another router port to connect the slingbox. What is the best method to connect everything? DSL modem, to a linksys router, to my airport extreme? Any help would be appeciated. Now my only problem is everytime I put my iBook G4 to sleep and open it back up again, I have to manually select the Airport Network and enter the password, before I can connect, which is a pain.

Does anyone have any idea why this is happening and how I can fix it?? I have a eMac os X and ive been trying for weeks to get this Linksys WRT54G set up and its saying im connected to the internet but ever time I try to pull up a website it says Internet cannot be found… Can someone please send me step by step instructions for a computer idiot?!?!? Im about to bash it with a ball bat here in a few hours if I cant get help… Aric gmail.

While searching the internet, I found this site and it was a lifesaver! I followed all your directions but for some reason when I enter in the password that is saved on the lynksys interface it does not work. I think I have the latest firmware on my computer and I think I have followed all the instructions but no luck.

I can connect to the network wirelessly, but I am having signal problems, one second its good and the next second its dropped. The PC in the house has no signal problems at all. Excellent info on how to setup this system. Bought it today and was wondering where the MAC setup portion was so I googled it and came across you article. Thanks so much.

Instructions are very easy to follow. Life saver. It worked at first, but then an hour or so later it refused to load anymore. Could someone give me a hand? Email me at themadviolinist gmail. I would be immensely grateful. Hey, I have a Mac, but my brother has a PC and we share internet connections. If I make this switch will he be shafted on wireless?

Or will he still get the wireless with no problems? This worked for me. I was able to set up the network from my Windows PC. It took me a while to figure out what to enter on the Mac when it prompted me for a network password. Hi there, does your set up guide work for a MacBookPro? I f not where do I go to find it? Thank you so much! I was thinking about putting the damn disk in the blender still might , when I came across your lovely description. Now to think up a horrendous name for my network that will once again, remind my older neighbors, of why they hate us. The fix: We changed it to 10 and now we all have access.

Garret, I have a lynksis router and an airport. After much trying, I bypassed both and simply plugged my ethernet line from the broadband modem into the imac. We would really like wireless again. It all worked great with my old G4. If you are using username: Hi Garrick, just to leave you a note. Thanks much for these helpful tips. I am trying to set up a password to lock my router using a WEP.

Everything was working great until I tried to sign-in with the password on the second imac. The computer i actually was setting the password up for works just fine it is the second computer that is not allowing me to access the internet. Does anyone have any ideas or suggestions? Also WAP worked just fine on both computers. I was able to use this to connect my iBook G4 and a Gateway computer wirelessly, but now my desktop which is hardwired to the router is not able to access the internet.

Any tips?? So my problem is this, I get to the website Has anyone had any luck setting up a Linksys WAP11 I was all ready to buy another router but a a last resort figured I would try the Linksys website for help.

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On this page, Linksys actually summarized the situation nicely, and provided some steps which in cluded hooking the modem to the router and the router to the Mac with Ethernet cables. I did all the steps and still was not online. Next I thought I would try cloning the Mac address in the router admin panel. Once I did this everything sprung to life. All computers in the house now happily humming away at 10Mbps Charter high speed! Does this MAC addy clone work for version 1? I have the 24in mac desktop which at first worked great when I pulled the linksys from my closet and connected it to my PC wired.

Said I was connected but still no internet. Garrick, thank you for posting this! With teh ethernet cable ok,but the wireless??? How come? Thank you all for your help. Frustrated, I decided to continue with research of my own. I stumble onto your post here and, literally, in less than a minute I have a working Ethernet connection! Thank you for figuring this out and thank you for posting this to help the rest of us!!

Derek is the man with the plan. Thanks again to all for this help…. Ok, my brother bought a wrt54g2 for my other brother who has a mac. It came with easy install software for both mac and pc. After trying to do it manually I gave up and searched the cisco site and found the OSX easy install download. Here it is. It works a treat.. To find it open your Network Preferences Pane, then select Show: Took MacBook Pro on vacation and connected to wired and wireless networks with no problem. Came home and could no longer connect to the Internet with my Linksys wireless network. Airport said it was connected to the network, but browsers could not connect to the Internet.

Interesting… Anyway, Apple and Linksys tech support were no help, so I Googled my problem, found this site, plugged in the settings added DNS servers of 4. Thanks so much! I found your site in hopes of freeing myself of the grief my mac and lynksis router have caused me. I set up the wireless router about 6 mos ago and it all worked well. I threw an ethernet cable on and it worked but not wireless. Shut her down for the day or I would have thrown it out the window. Hope this helps someone, somewhere.

Cheers, Karolina B. Thank you Garrick,,,I just go my first mac,, was told I had to buy certain things one of them was to replace my router. Nothing worked. I also pushed the reset button for 30 seconds, trying doing it while connecting to the modem, and also while not connecting to the modem, also while not connecting it to the laptop, and every other variation.

The power light is firm, the WLAN light is on as well, also the port light. I also assigned the static IP address as instructed in the beginning of this webpage. What should I do?

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Where do I go in a macbook if I want to update the firmware for my linksys router? Step by step and where in the computer do I go? Please help! I had fight and i won the battle. So what do I need to enter and where do I get this information? Another problem, once I reset my router to gain access with the default password, I changed my password but every time I go to access the router it does not ask for a password. Why not and how do I get it to work? Thank you in advance Garrick.

The only problem is that it is not accpeting it. Either I am using the wrong name or password. Any solutions to this? Okay, so, you are my last hope. Hi folks, great site and great information. Unless re-configured, the out of the box address for Linksys routers is Again, unless re-configured, the default username is blank — that means nothing is typed here — for older models. The password will always be admin… unless someone has already configured this unit to use a different password. If the device was reconfigured, the unit must be reset to factory default. That means that while therouter is powered up, stick a paperclip in the back onto the reset button and hold for 30 seconds.

Release the paperclip and remove power for 10 seconds. This shows the connection status between the router and your ISP. I noticed a few posts on setting the MTU message transmission unit. Hope this helps some of you out there. Need to download the driver and re-install to a MAC…. I just tried downloading the driver from Linksys. I was having similar problems to what a lot of other people have mentioned previously.

I have an iBook G4 My room mate uses a powerbook and had set up the modem and linksys router before I got there. Then, for some odd reason it would log onto the network anyway but not let me connect to the internet. My airport status was orange and said that I was connected to the network using a self-assigned IP address and may not be able to access the internet. I tried everything I could think of with the configuations — both my airport settings and the settings on the router.

Actually, the internet stopped working for my housemate too. Finally we just unplugged everything, reset the modem, reset the router, and created a new network. Everything worked perfectly when I followed the steps posted in the initial post. After ugrading my Mac mini to Mac Also when I try using NetShade program Dev. NSInternalInconsistencyException nvalid parameter not satisfying: Simpy I have opened the Keychein.

Very strange. After 3 days of major frustration trying to setup my new MacBook Pro to my linksys router I came across this site. Apple was much more helpful, but they were still unable to help remedy the issue. This worked though! Thank so much everyone! We purchased a Mac OS We have a cable modem through comcast.

Linksys tech says we need an upgrade with a warranty, etc. They were very pushy about it and I want a second opinion. Is that correct? I have a Mac OS X I bought the Linksys WRT router a few weeks ago. For the first few nights it worked fine, but a few days later I noticed that around the same time every night the connection would slow down and at some points even go out completely.

When too many people would access the router it would bog down and the modem would cycle itself. One thing I found from digging through the linksys web site is to change the Also leave the username blank while using the admin login. I also have a Linksys travel router I picked up at a show and the login for that is different so check the device to see which login they tell you to use or google the device model and check for more information.

If you are locked out press the reset button located on the device and reset to the factory defaults. Does anyone have any suggestions, at all? Thanks for any help in advance. Linksys should have a mac setup cd for their products.. I have a very old Linksys router, model BEFW11S4, which has been stalwartly providing me with a wireless network for many years. I recently changed my network to use WAP security on the advice of Linksys support ; but it seems now that my wireless network drops a lot more frequently than it used to.

I can usually re-establish the network by unplugging the router, resetting the cable modem, and then plugging the router back in — but why does the network keep dropping? Is there something I can change in the router configuration to keep my network from vanishing so often? I had my router already set up but with no password on the WiFi but a password on the router , and I had to use the router password.

We just bought an iMac. Had it connected directly to our DSL modem and work perfectly. I am know trying to set up a wireless Internet connection. I have done everything everyone has suggested probably something wrong but still no internet. I can access the router linksys WRT but I can not figure out from there. I have tried to clone my Mac address, etc. Please help out a first time Mac owner. Your advice was helpful. I was able to set up my printer and computer on Linksys, thanks in large part to you.

If possible, I would appreciate assistance with the following: For years, without incident, we have had a wireless network at home using a Linksys WRT54G router, which seems to be a very common router. Now, however, for the first time, I am having wireless problems that preclude me from working wirelessly.

The router seems to work fine. I have followed online advice and reset it using an iMac It sends the wireless signal to the iMac, shows excellent signal strength, and connects wirelessly. No problems there. We have several laptops, two Macbooks and one Dell, all of which previously connected to the wireless without problem. Now, however, none of them will allow me to get to the Internet—even through each of them show the network as an available network, show that the network has excellent signal strength, and after entering the WEP password say they are connected to the network.

I have reset using the reset button on the Linksys and re-established renaming, etc. Again, the network exists and works, as evidenced by the fact that I can get it, and use it to access the Internet, on the iMac. Do I need to get some sort of router ID into each of the laptops, or, in the Linksys set-up, do I somehow need to enter some sort of info from the laptops?

Sorry, but most of the suggestions here are over my head. Thanks so much!! The trouble is, when I send the browser to http: I am also confused about how to create a new wireless network. Please advise. Thanks for posting these instructions. One problem: I had to use one of the other ports. FireFox worked Great!!! Use Firefox Not Safari to access On the first page, change the IP Address to From the tips above Apply Changes and wait…it took a while for the modem to respond. You hereby acknowledge that the Software may contain Open Source Software as defined below.

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You acknowledge that this information is not a guarantee of actual savings, and you agree not to seek monetary or other remedies from Belkin if your savings differs. We cannot guarantee that it is correct or up to date. In yielded a configuration that was not able to access the Internet and suggested we manually set the configuration. Configuration 2 modem in Bridging mode, router in PPPoE mode doesn't seem to be letting the router to see the internet. The goal is get configuration 1 or 2 working so that the MacBook can access the internet wirelessly. Router's local address is Router issues addresses The modem is in Bridging mode, and router is in PPPoe mode, and connected to modem: Modem issues address You are connecting to the wrong port on the router.

The yellow port is the 'uplink' or 'WAN' port, which is the one you should be using to connect to your internet gateway device, which is your modem. The blue cable goes from the computer to one of the 4 numbered LAN addresses on the router. So things work in configuration 1 computer directly connected to modem, router not connected but not if traffic comes from the router with a different MAC address e. Called DLink Support and verified by remote connection that modem is working correctly in both bridging and PPPoE mode which we knew because config 1 works. Therefore problem seems to be in the router.

Calling back Cisco-Linksys customer support, will update with results. They authorized a replacement. Symptom that showed router was defective -- it stored the same IP address in both its IP address and as the gateway IP. One other bit of strangeness in all this. The Router was a refurbished model, but came with an extended 90 day warranty from date of sale. We purchased this model from an Amazon affiliate in September, but Cisco had an entry for this serial number saying that it warranty expired in May implying a February purchase date.

This conflict in Cisco's serial number database, caused us a bit of a hassle in getting technical support and the warranty honored until we provided them the Amazon receipt to get technical support and a faxed copy of the receipt to get the exchange approved. We are wondering if someone else initially purchased the refurb item and later returned it to the affiliate we purchased it from, who in turn resold it to us as if it were new, but after the original purchaser had registered the sale in the database and knew the warranty was expired.

Anyway thanks for the suggestion!!! Phyllis Sommers Phyllis Sommers. Although they don't actually support 3rd party equipment, they were great about walking me through the necessary settings to establish my Internet connection in this way. It was a pretty simple, relatively seamless, process and is a much more stable connection than going through the modem to get to the router using only DHCP settings. Glad everything finally worked out.