Hello,

Thank you, Fabian and Kai, for your help!

I followed the instructions of Kai, and I have managed to reset my router to 
factory defaults.

Thank you so much.

> Sent: Wednesday, December 23, 2015 at 4:14 PM
> From: "Kai Krakow" <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [OpenWrt-Users] Problem accessing to OpenWrt 8.09
>
> Am Wed, 23 Dec 2015 14:40:36 +0100
> schrieb Fabian Schwartau
> <[email protected]>:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > use the failsafe mode of OpenWRT.
> > Basically you have to hit one of the buttons during startup at the
> > right time. Then the router will have a static IP and you can
> > configure it as you like or do a full reset to defaul configuration.
> > Google for OpenWRT failsafe.
> 
> I had a similar problem with the same hardware. Reset is possible by
> repeating pressing the hardware button while plugging power on. Press
> the button in short cycles, like click click click ... for ten seconds
> or so. The router should come up with an open telnet port on
> 192.168.1.1.
> 
> For me the problem was: I tried to strip down the router as far as I
> could, including removing the vlan function, disabling unneeded
> services and uninstall unneeded packages. The startup scripts, however,
> do not bring up the switch if there is now vlan config applied (I think
> this is a bug).
> 
> The second problem was: Do not try to save the config from the web
> view if you do such configuration. Just modify it but do not apply.
> Then if everything looks good in web view in the indicator at the right
> top shows uncommitted changes (review them), apply the changes in one
> go from there. The router may need a manual reboot afterwards by
> pulling the power.
> 
> > Am 23.12.2015 um 14:35 schrieb Genghis Khan:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I need help accessing my router.  I have tried to reconfigure my
> > > router to act as client, and now I am unable to gain access to it
> > > neither by DHCP nor by a Static IP.
> > >
> > > I am unable to reset my router using the reset button.
> > >
> > > Device: Linksys WRT54G v2.2
> > > System: OpenWrt 8.09
> > >
> > > The last change that has been made was:
> > >
> > > network.lan.proto=dhcp
> > > -network.lan.ipaddr
> > > -network.lan.netmask
> > > network.lan.peerdns=0
> > > network.lan.defaultroute=0
> > >
> > > I think I have also disabled DHCP for interface wan.
> > >

Apparently, the reset button has a different role when OpenWrt is installed.
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