Netgear WPN824 router admin via IE6: "The page cannot be displayed"

[Thomas G. Marshall]

WPN824 / Windows XP SP2 / IE6 / Verizon DSL(not that that should matter for
this question).

When I connect to my WPN824 (RangeMax) router via Internet Explorer 6, I get
the SmartWizard pages usually ok, but when I try to change some of the
settings I get:

The page cannot be displayed

For example, I go to:

Advanced-->Wireless Settings-->Setup Access List

And add a mac address to filter to, it will give me the "updating settings"
progress bar, and then instead of the page again it will give me the cannot
be displayed error.

I tried setting the IE keep-alive timeout to 120 seconds, on the off chance
that it was timing out IE, but it did not help.

This happens on many of the settings. It's driving me nuts, sometimes
hitting F5 and reloading the smartwizard pages shows that the changes had
not taken effect.

Pop-ups are not blocked.

Any ideas???

Thanks.

--
I've seen this a few times--Don't make this mistake:

Dwight: "This thing is wildly available."
Smedly: "Did you mean wildly, or /widely/ ?"
Dwight: "Both!", said while nodding emphatically.

Dwight was exposed to have made a grammatical
error and tries to cover it up by thinking
fast. This is so painfully obvious that he
only succeeds in looking worse.

 

[pete]

personally, i would uninstall any files on the computer for the router,
reset it on its reset point on the router and start all over again fresh.
sounds to me like a setting someplace has been altered and router is
confused. That or else try using firefox as browser first before resetting
unit, may be a stupd fault on ie6 settings