Setting up Linksys router with a Mac?

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Svein - 19 Nov 2005 20:33 GMT

Greetings from Norway!

I've just purchased the Linksys WRT54GX router but I've run into
problems configuring it. The problem is the setup web page that I get
when I connect with Netscape 7.2 for Mac OS X looks nothing like the
setup web page as pictured in the users's manual. The menu on top for
example where you choose sub-pages like "wireless" and "security" is
not visible and the "save changes" button is not at the bottom of the
page where it should be. The help menu on the right is nowhere to be
found!

Surely it must be possible to setup this router using the latest
version of Netscape and Internet Explorer for Mac OS X? I've also tried
with latest versions of Safari and Firefox but here too a lot of the
links on the setup page are missing.

Do I really need to bring along my work PC (luckily this is a laptop)
to be able to configure the router. I used to have a D-Link router and
setting this up with a Mac was no problem at all; the set-up web page
had all the features it should have, but not so with the Linksys.

Any suggestions anyone?

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Sander Tekelenburg - 19 Nov 2005 21:53 GMT

> Greetings from Norway!

Hei hei

> I've just purchased the Linksys WRT54GX router but I've run into
> problems configuring it. The problem is the setup web page that I get
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> Surely it must be possible to setup this router using the latest
> version of Netscape and Internet Explorer for Mac OS X?

Under the hood the latest version of Netscape is a pretty old version of
Mozilla. As to Mac IE: the latest version is some 4 years old. It's dead
and buried.

That aside, the Web interfaces in such products are usually non-standard
crap.

> I've also tried
> with latest versions of Safari and Firefox but here too a lot of the
> links on the setup page are missing.

FWIW, I don't recall such problems when I set up a WRT54G (no "X") a few
months ago. I don't recall which browser I used. My preferred is iCab,
so I no doubt tried that first. If that didn't work I must have reverted
to Safari. If that still hadn't worked, I would have remembered because
I would have gotten my money back then.

Make sure to have javascript (and maybe more) enabled. Probably won't
work without that.

> Do I really need to bring along my work PC (luckily this is a laptop)
> to be able to configure the router.

Personally I would never accept such crap. I'd take it back to the store
and get my money back. (Assuming the problem is not with the browser, of
course.)

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Mac user: "Macs only have 40 viruses, tops!"
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Svein - 20 Nov 2005 12:07 GMT

I downloaded iCab and voila the setup page looks like it should and I
have now have full access to the various features.

Thanks Sander!

Svein

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Reginald Dwight - 20 Nov 2005 16:51 GMT

> The problem is the setup web page that I get
> when I connect with Netscape 7.2 for Mac OS X looks nothing like the
> setup web page as pictured in the users's manual.

Netscape!? Get rid of it. It's dead!

Try Safari or Firefox and you will likely encounter no problems.

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davidsteward4@yahoo.com - 20 Nov 2005 17:00 GMT

I have an Origo router which I find can only be accessed via Internet
Explorer. Neither iCab or Safari does not allow me to access it, I have
not tried Firefox.

The best advice is try all of the browsers available and you should
find one that works.

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Sander Tekelenburg - 21 Nov 2005 00:48 GMT

[...]

> Try Safari or Firefox and you will likely encounter no problems.

What you snipped from the message you're responing to:

> > I've also tried
> > with latest versions of Safari and Firefox but here too a lot of the
> > links on the setup page are missing.

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Mac user: "Macs only have 40 viruses, tops!"
PC user: "SEE! Not even the virus writers support Macs!"

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Reginald Dwight - 21 Nov 2005 02:18 GMT

> What you snipped from the message you're responing to:
>
> > > I've also tried
> > > with latest versions of Safari and Firefox but here too a lot of the
> > > links on the setup page are missing.

And I cancelled the article literally seconds later. Oh well...

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Setting up Linksys router with a Mac?