WAG54G Ethernet ports not responding

Why not just buy a ethernet switch? You can pick up some 100 Mb switches for a good low price. Hardware fails, especially in this price segment of the market. If you are worried about failures get a dedicated AP and leave the router to dedicated hardware. It will also make your network more robust, so if a port fails in the future you will not have to replace the whole router/AP.

Rthoreau

On 12 Aug 2006 07:06:52 -0700, snipped-for-privacy@iwon.com wrote in :

All 4 LAN ports, or just one of them?

Probably just a hardware failure, a rare failure for any brand.

Won't help if all 4 LAN ports are dead because there wouldn't be anywhere to connect it.

It's a rare case. I would suspect that the wireless would go out first and not the wire.

I like to protect such devices with a UPS/AVR to power clean and constant so that they don't take hits from other household appliances switching on/off spiking the line that could lead to the router going defective.

Duane :)

Yes all the 4 ports were not establishing connections.

Well it appears to be a hardware failure but what I was thinking about why linksys are not making routers with multi-point failure with regard to ethernet ports. i.e failure of one port should not affect the rest.

Correct.

Thanks all.

-aljuhani

On 12 Aug 2006 13:08:08 -0700, "aljuhani" wrote in :

Not so surprising: All 4 LAN ports are probably controlled by a single chip.

John.

Well surprise surprise. when I changed "Link Speed / duplex mode", under the NIC advanced tab, from "auto negotiation" to "10 Mbps / half duplex" the network connection immediately established with firm non-flashing port led on the router!.

Any ideas?

-aljuhani

On 13 Aug 2006 05:28:41 -0700, "aljuhani" wrote in :

Autonegotiation was problematic in some early chips.

"aljuhani" hath wroth:

1. NWAY negotiation between some devices is a problem. However, I haven't seen that problem on current hardware.
2. More common is a miswired ethernet cable with split pairs. It will test ok for continuity, and has the correct wire connections, but there is so much crosstalk between data pairs that full duplex fails to function.

Hello Jeff.

Thanks for your input.

The lan connection was only established at 10 Mbps and nothing above or auto negotiation but finally I have managed to get the router working.

I had a feeling that the 3rd party firmware installed 8 months before the problem is what causing all this so I decided to downgrade the original firmware ver. (WAG54G_AnnexA_ETSI_v1.02.7_03_code.bin). Of course the downgrading to said firmware was not possible thru the GUI so I did the followings:

1. Plugged the router to my laptop at 10 Mbps connection after applying hard-reset.

1. Downloaded tftp.exe from linksys ftp website:

ftp://ftp.linksys.com/pub/network/tftp.exe

1. Started TFTP Client and entered the gateway value 192.168.1.1 for server, admin for password, and selected the firmware 1.02.7 to upload.

It all went well as firmware installed successfully and router auto rebooted. I then accessed my NICs options and changed the Link Speed back to auto negotiation mode after which the port led where lan cable is connected started blinking and connection established at 100 Mbps with no problems.

I then reconfigured thru GUI my ADSL specifics and authenticated ok.

Thanks to all for the Help ...

-aljuhani

What exact version of the WAG54G firmware did *NOT* work? I assume you're somewhere in Europe.

The Linksys US web pile shows no firmware images for either the WAG54G v1 or v2.

Interesting reading on the WAG54G firmare:

The firmware that were causing the problem on my WAG54G V1 is (WAG54G_AnnexA_ETSI_v1.03.0_beta4_00_code) provided by 3rd party.

As mentioned before I re-flashed the firmware back to (WAG54G_AnnexA_ETSI_v1.02.7_03_code.bin) which is working fine and I will be upgrading to the latest firmware provided by linksys Saudi Arabia.

Currently I have a WAG54GX2 SRX200 but also I will be using my old WAG54G.

Thanks

-aljuhani