So, what exactly is the question? How to hack into a Linksys router? How to access the admin menu? What is the default password? How to set the port 8000 to open? Or all of those?

My question to you is did you have your network card set to DHCP? Did you give it time to connect and get a LAN address or did you just plug in and boom, put in the ip of the router? When I bring my wireless router to the LUG meetings, sometimes it takes it a few minutes for it to connect to the LAN and get it's own IP and internet connection going, then people that connect to it, directly or via wireless, it may take it a minute to broadcast it's DHCP info to your card.

Try to "ping 192.168.1.1" before you try to go to the webpage to config it. That will verify that you can reach it. Have you had any problems with your cable? Maybe try another or try a different port on the back of the router. Sometimes the ports go bad. Make sure you are not connected to a port with the uplink label and if that is the only one open, then turn off the uplink switch or pick a different port and unplug someone.

Maybe they don't use the default IP addressing scheme with 192.168.1.1 as the router address. Try to "ping 192.168.0.1" or "ping 192.168.2.1".

Brian Kelsay

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Hi Johnathan,

No, I didn't gain access to the linksys router at the store on broadway. I must have looked pretty foolish. I thought it'd be easy. I plugged an Ethernet cable into their router and typed 192.168.1.1 into a browsers address bar. I expecting an authentication dialog box to pop up and happily accept my user name and password, just like it happens on my home network, instead I received a "connection failure," type error message. Next, I tried turning on Airport(I was using a powerbook)to access the Internet. This time, a dialog box popped up, alright, but it wouldn't accept the username password combination the owner had provided. Eventually, I found several options available in the authentication dialog box, one of them, "Leap," seemed likely, so, I selected it and happily filled in the fields again. I thought I'd found an alternative way in but the router didn't buy it. It replied with another error message, "invalid password." I asked the owner of the store to verify the password with the person who had installed the LAN and told him I'd try again tomorrow. They want me to broadcast an upcomming event so they're being very helpful. I wish I knew more about networking. To broadcast, I need to open port 8000 on this LAN. Hopefully they'll provide me with the authentication information I need. If not, I'll be asking for more help.

Michael handuma.com