Re: Setting up Linksys router with a Mac?

In article <1132432417.112445.171140@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
"Svein" <svein4@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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
> when I connect with Netscape 7.2 [...] The menu on top [...] 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?

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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PC user: "SEE! Not even the virus writers support Macs!"
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