Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Linksys router BEFSR41 loosing internet

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

walt wrote:
> On 12/19/2010 12:11 PM, Dale wrote:
>
>> I noticed on the router that to completely reset it, you have to push
> > the reset button and hold it for 30 seconds or more. It said it even
> > resets the firmware. I have not tested this theory tho.
>
> Just to clarify: you've said in other posts that you've repeatedly reset
> the router.  Did you hold the reset button for 30 seconds, or not?
>
> The only two routers I've actually used have the same 30-second 
> requirement.
> I don't recall now if I ever pushed the reset button for less than 30 
> sec.
>
> Forgive me if I don't try that experiment on this particular Sunday PM :)
>

I didn't push the reset button at all.  Actually, I just unplugged it 
and did a "normal" reset.  According to the book, power off just makes 
it redo the DHCP stuff.  Pressing the reset button briefly I would think 
would do the same thing but maybe a little faster.  Pressing the reset 
button and holding it for long time resets it back to factory defaults 
including the firmware.  I haven't did that.

I fell asleep again tho.  The internet was still working when I got on 
here this time.  I bet that setting got changed in the modem during a 
software upgrade and I didn't know it.

I do want to figure this all out tho.  I want fireball to get a fixed IP 
from the router and I want smoker to get a fixed IP from the router.  I 
think I know how to do that much.  I'm going to go do some looking 
around in the screens and see what I can do.

Dale

:-)  :-)