Comments on: Linksys Fixes WRT54G DHCP Bug

By: Wimax Ba

Wimax Ba — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 22:03:47 +0000

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By: Tim Wood

Tim Wood — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 06:19:05 +0000

Really fantastic post. Theoretically I could write something like this too, but taking the time and effort to make a good article is a lot of effort…but what can I say….I’m a procrastinater. Good read though.

By: mike

mike — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 16:39:16 +0000

I fell sorry for folks who got their kids laptops for xmas from apple to have their fun spoiled by this (as were mine)…at least I tracked down the solution by combimg through google posts like that above…!!! Many thanks!

By: iLkerjaN

iLkerjaN — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 00:53:37 +0000

Unfortunately, the problem still exists on the WRT54GS v6 router. I hope that Linksys fixes it for these routers soon.

By: Jason Kennerly

Jason Kennerly — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 00:25:31 +0000

I had to manually assign my Mac Mini.

My GF’s dell laptop is up shit creek without a paddle, with a static IP it’ll be fucked as a portable…

Worst of all, the jerk-offs at Cisco haven’t made an update for the BEFSR11 since 2005! Linksys got TOTALLY RUINED as a result of Cisco take-over; I still suspect they degraded the entire product line to discourage competition with the constantly-getting-hacked line of Cisco routers… after all, if your small businesses WiFi router crashes at least once every few days you might actually perceive a need to waste money on a Cisco-branded product instead.

By: Jack

Jack — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 03:18:21 +0000

I leave out the #@%$#@$%%^^ comments and get to the point — I have 3 Masbook Pros for my children and could not connect them through (and I say “through” advisedly) to my ISP. The solution was to upgrade the Firmware on the Linksys wirelss router to the latest version. After doing so, the Macs linked flawlessly, as did the PC-based systems I have for work. It’s easy to do–but, unfortunately, not easy to find out about! Neither the Apple nor Linksys websites reference this problem ( at least in any way I could detect through searching them…)

By: Marklark

Marklark — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 01:26:03 +0000

I’ve dealt with the problem just today for the WRT54GS v6 . Other than suggesting that I upgrade my Linksys firmware (which I had done), Apple says that we should call Linksys. Linksys says they normally don’t help Apple users, but since I seemed to know what I was doing…

Anyway, neither Linksys or Apple was able to help and I “discovered” that putting in a static IP address did the trick.

By: Alan Hess

Alan Hess — Sat, 02 Dec 2006 20:21:56 +0000

Users of IBM’s OS/2 Warp operating system or eComStation (the OEM version) had the same problem with the firmware version 1.0.1.0 as Mac users. I have not yet tried the 1.0.1.1 firmware (currently using the static address “fix” with 1.0.1.0, but I found it interesting that the problem apparently only affected computers running non-Windows operating systems. I use eComStation 1.2.

By: Mysterious crashing with linksys WRT54G - MacNN Forums

Mysterious crashing with linksys WRT54G - MacNN Forums — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 23:46:08 +0000

[...] Linksys released a new firmware for the WRT54G v5 and v6. Apparently, there was an bug in the way that the router issued IP addresses to Mac clients. I tested out the new firmware on both a PPC and an Intel Mac and the upgrade seems to work perfectly. For more information: macnewsonline [...]

By: Kerry Sanders

Kerry Sanders — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 23:31:48 +0000

Unfortunately, the problem still exists on the WRT54GS v6 router. I hope that Linksys fixes it for these routers soon.