My new Samsung Galaxy S2 comes with Gingerbread, 2.3.4. My Linksys WRT54G router is set to 192.168.0.103. It is connected to a port on my ethernet switch. Everything in the house is connected by ethernet; the only purpose of the WRT54G is to provide wifi for the phone.
My previous phone ran Android 2.2.1. It had no problem seeing and connecting to the WRT54G. The SGS2 can see it and knows that it is secured, but it cannot connect because some idiot decided that passwords must be at least eight characters long, and the password I set on the WRT54G is seven characters long. When I type the password into the phone the "Connect" button remains grayed out until I enter at least eight characters. I must figure out a way to change the behavior of Gingerbread, or I must reset the password on the WRT54G. The latter would probably be much easier. I feel I should also locate the person responsible for deciding that passwords must be at least eight digits long and make sure they never have offspring. But that will have to wait for another day. That is, I thought that changing the password on the WRT54G would be easy. Opening a web browser page and trying to connect to http://192.168.0.103 results in "problem loading page." This happens even from my laptop and even when the laptop is connected to the WRT54G via the laptop's own wireless hardware. That is, I can't connect to the web-based configuration page for the WRT54G whether the laptop is connected via ethernet, via its wireless to the WRT54G, or via both. I could use some clues. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
