my WAP hates me

> I just got what I had thought was a more or less nice access point
> (linksys befw11s4) but it hates me.  Well, I suspose it's more along
> the lines of taunting me.=20
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> I know it works because I can get to the outside (with difficulty, but
> it's a firewall issue that I'm not going to argue with at the moment)
> on a wireless connection.  So I've at least got it partly
> configured....
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> The problem is that the happy user guide says 'type in
> http://192.168.1.1/ and have configuration goodness'.  Well, thereby
> hangs the tail.  When booted to linux, it just will *not* see that
> address from a browser.  Talking to it by hand via the lowest common
> demoniator broser (telnet) gives similar results.  nmap says '80/tcp
> open http'.  Ping is happy.  iptables are wide open.
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> In desparation, I went to the dark side... whamo! it worked.
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> I feel unclean.
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> If it had been doing NTLM or something I could have said, ok, that's
> the reason, as much as I would dislike it.  But even the bloody faq
> says that linux will work to configure it b/c it's a pure web app.
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> Anybody got a bar of soap (aka clue) to scrub the windows crud offa
> me?
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> Please?
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> firmware 1.45.1, June 2003 (newer than released on website afaict).
> http://www.linksys.com/support/support.asp?spid=3D68#general
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> Thanks,
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> David
>     <Faydakin> I'm gonna start using tar for preserving data
>     <Faydakin> just like the dinosaurs
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