[PLUG] Reconfigure Gingerbread or Reconfigure Wireless Router

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JJJ,
Unless you have spent a lot of time customizing the settings on your router,
i would recommend resetting your router to factory default.  Then you can
enter a new longer password for your router.  To reset your WRT54G, press a
pencil or whatever will fit into the reset button behind the router, & kepp
that button pressed in.  Then power up your router.  I think it takes a good
30 seconds or so before it rests.  Then remove the pencil & use the default
password to set up your router.  Default is something like admin then blank
space for password.  It can be found through a search engine like
https://www.startpage.com.

Cheers,

Elcaset

On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 12:12 AM, John Jason Jordan <johnxj at comcast.net>wrote:

> My new Samsung Galaxy S2 comes with Gingerbread, 2.3.4. My Linksys
> WRT54G router is set to 192.168.0.103. It is connected to a port on my
> ethernet switch. Everything in the house is connected by ethernet; the
> only purpose of the WRT54G is to provide wifi for the phone.
>
> My previous phone ran Android 2.2.1. It had no problem seeing and
> connecting to the WRT54G. The SGS2 can see it and knows that it is
> secured, but it cannot connect because some idiot decided that passwords
> must be at least eight characters long, and the password I set on the
> WRT54G is seven characters long. When I type the password into the
> phone the "Connect" button remains grayed out until I enter at least
> eight characters.
>
> I must figure out a way to change the behavior of Gingerbread, or I
> must reset the password on the WRT54G. The latter would probably be
> much easier. I feel I should also locate the person responsible for
> deciding that passwords must be at least eight digits long and make
> sure they never have offspring. But that will have to wait for another
> day.
>
> That is, I thought that changing the password on the WRT54G would be
> easy. Opening a web browser page and trying to connect to
> http://192.168.0.103 results in "problem loading page." This happens
> even from my laptop and even when the laptop is connected to the WRT54G
> via the laptop's own wireless hardware. That is, I can't connect to
> the web-based configuration page for the WRT54G whether the laptop is
> connected via ethernet, via its wireless to the WRT54G, or via both.
>
> I could use some clues.
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