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7800: No admin interface?
Hello, I was wondering if anyone can give me some information on a problem I am having with the router. My nighthawk 7800 updated to the latest firmware and after that is when things stop working. I ...
Ok so after a few days on tinkering I finally got it to work. Heres what I did was
- held reset button for 2 minutes
- powered router off wait till 10 seconds and continue holding the reset for a minutet then release.
after that did not work i held the reset button and unplugged the router in and out about 10 times. that did not work as far as having the router assign an ip address to my computer or show the default gateway.
My next steps were to assign a manual ip address
ip-192.168.1.10
subnet-255.255.255.0
gateway-192.168.1.1
After i tried pinging the ip address and was getting a timeout error, I did a reboot of the router and I got a blinking light and i was able to ping the ip address. I downloaded a TFTP client (http://www.mactechnologies.com/index.php?page=downloads#tftpclient) and I was able to manually download the lastest firmware and upload it through the client, after about a minute all the lights on the router came back on and the router was finally reset allowing me to access the gui interface.
Thanks for all your inputs I did not want to be down a 200 dollar router after only 1 year of having it.
Ok so after a few days on tinkering I finally got it to work. Heres what I did was
- held reset button for 2 minutes
- powered router off wait till 10 seconds and continue holding the reset for a minutet then release.
after that did not work i held the reset button and unplugged the router in and out about 10 times. that did not work as far as having the router assign an ip address to my computer or show the default gateway.
My next steps were to assign a manual ip address
ip-192.168.1.10
subnet-255.255.255.0
gateway-192.168.1.1
After i tried pinging the ip address and was getting a timeout error, I did a reboot of the router and I got a blinking light and i was able to ping the ip address. I downloaded a TFTP client (http://www.mactechnologies.com/index.php?page=downloads#tftpclient) and I was able to manually download the lastest firmware and upload it through the client, after about a minute all the lights on the router came back on and the router was finally reset allowing me to access the gui interface.
Thanks for all your inputs I did not want to be down a 200 dollar router after only 1 year of having it.
> [...] I downloaded a TFTP client [...]
Shouldn't be necessary: /usr/bin/tftp
man tftp
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