Well, I tried to implement the wireless connection via mac addresses and
surely did something wrong. Now I cannot access the internet or the router
to undo what I did. Is there a way around this? Is the reset button on the
router supposed to help?

Using windows xp and dlink router.

Go Tyler wrote:
> Well, I tried to implement the wireless connection via mac addresses and
> surely did something wrong. Now I cannot access the internet or the router
> to undo what I did. Is there a way around this? Is the reset button on the
> router supposed to help?
>
> Using windows xp and dlink router.

Does your PC, and the router, have regular "wired" ports?

On Fri, 16 Dec 2005 22:53:08 -0600, "Go Tyler"
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>Well, I tried to implement the wireless connection via mac addresses and
>surely did something wrong. Now I cannot access the internet or the router
>to undo what I did. Is there a way around this? Is the reset button on the
>router supposed to help?

Where you able to use the router as it came out of the box
or was it necessary to configure it first to get it to work
at all? If the former, yes use the reset button. If the
latter, you'll have to use a wired connection, or remember
where /what you did to the router, as maybe you can still
reconfig one of the clients to connect to it.

For example, if all you did was restrict access to mac
addresses, a nic with this address should be able to
connect. If this was a global setting rather than only a
wireless setting, you'd need to take the system with one of
those set mac addresses to connect at all, else reset it.

>
>Using windows xp and dlink router.

Have you read the router manual? If so and you're still
having trouble, there's probably a configuration guide or
two, maybe even for your specific dlink model on the net
found via google search.

All is well. I was only holding the reset for about 5 seconds. It really did
take 10 seconds of holding the reset button in to make the router go back to
default.

"Go Tyler" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:wOMof.44776$(E-Mail Removed)...
> Well, I tried to implement the wireless connection via mac addresses and
> surely did something wrong. Now I cannot access the internet or the router
> to undo what I did. Is there a way around this? Is the reset button on the
> router supposed to help?
>
> Using windows xp and dlink router.
>
>

On Fri, 16 Dec 2005 22:53:08 -0600, "Go Tyler"
<(E-Mail Removed)> was heard to say:

>Well, I tried to implement the wireless connection via mac addresses and
>surely did something wrong. Now I cannot access the internet or the router
>to undo what I did. Is there a way around this? Is the reset button on the
>router supposed to help?
>
>Using windows xp and dlink router.
>

Your router should have an RS-232 or USB port on it for a direct
connection (normally referred to as a CONSOLE) with a computer. I
suggest you first locate documentation for your router, then make a
console connection and fix your screwup.

Raymond Sirois
SysOp: The Lost Chord BBS
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Park/9257
telnet://thelostchord.dns2go.com:6023

"Raymond Sirois" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
I
> suggest you first locate documentation for your router, then make a
> console connection and fix your screwup.
>

And why exactly do you want me to find the documentation and what is that
supposed to do for me?

Besides, the paperclip jammed into the reset button for 10 seconds put
everything back to normal. I have also read elsewhere that setting mac
addresses is a waste of time and that they don't really enhance security.
Therefore, I am not fooling with mac addresses any more except to have
Airsnare watch out for non-friendly ones.

On Sun, 18 Dec 2005 00:42:30 -0600, "Go Tyler"
<(E-Mail Removed)> was heard to say:

>"Raymond Sirois" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>I
>> suggest you first locate documentation for your router, then make a
>> console connection and fix your screwup.
>>
>
>And why exactly do you want me to find the documentation and what is that
>supposed to do for me?
>
>Besides, the paperclip jammed into the reset button for 10 seconds put
>everything back to normal. I have also read elsewhere that setting mac
>addresses is a waste of time and that they don't really enhance security.
>Therefore, I am not fooling with mac addresses any more except to have
>Airsnare watch out for non-friendly ones.
>

Because, for a fleeting moment, I thought that someone out there might
actually want to KNOW something about the equipment they're trying to
frag beyond all operational parameters.

Feel quite confident in the fact that the next time I see YOUR name on
a posting, I'll not make the same mistake.

Raymond Sirois
SysOp: The Lost Chord BBS
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Park/9257
telnet://thelostchord.dns2go.com:6023

On Mon, 19 Dec 2005 05:15:32 GMT, Raymond Sirois
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:


>>And why exactly do you want me to find the documentation and what is that
>>supposed to do for me?

>Because, for a fleeting moment, I thought that someone out there might
>actually want to KNOW something about the equipment they're trying to
>frag beyond all operational parameters.

At least someone, somewhere will eventually read your post
on Google Groups, and might learn something, maybe even to
RTFM, unlike Tyler.

Raymond Sirois wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Dec 2005 22:53:08 -0600, "Go Tyler"
> <(E-Mail Removed)> was heard to say:
>
>> Well, I tried to implement the wireless connection via mac addresses
>> and surely did something wrong. Now I cannot access the internet or
>> the router to undo what I did. Is there a way around this? Is the
>> reset button on the router supposed to help?
>>
>> Using windows xp and dlink router.
>>
>
> Your router should have an RS-232 or USB port on it for a direct
> connection (normally referred to as a CONSOLE) with a computer. I
> suggest you first locate documentation for your router, then make a
> console connection and fix your screwup.



I'd really like to see a D-Link wireless router with an RS-232 port.

Care to provide a URL ?

If everyone read the manual, there would be no newsgroups. To me there is
nothing more silly in a NG than for someone to tell somone else to read the
manual. It is also frustrating for me to follow a thread only to come across
a bunch of children who turn a thread into an immature waste of time.

It is even more silly because obviously no one who responded has a d-link
router. The only documentation mine came with was a fancy little poster that
showed how to connect the pretty blue cables to the ports. I just checked
the driver cd for the heck of it. Nothing in the form of a manual there
either that discusses mac addresses and how to incorporate their use into
network security.

If you folks did not want to respond with any good advice, you really should
have ignored him.

Ignore me too




"kony" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> On Mon, 19 Dec 2005 05:15:32 GMT, Raymond Sirois
> <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>
>>>And why exactly do you want me to find the documentation and what is that
>>>supposed to do for me?
>
>>Because, for a fleeting moment, I thought that someone out there might
>>actually want to KNOW something about the equipment they're trying to
>>frag beyond all operational parameters.
>
> At least someone, somewhere will eventually read your post
> on Google Groups, and might learn something, maybe even to
> RTFM, unlike Tyler.
>
>
>