JJJ, Unless you have spent a lot of time customizing the settings on your router, i would recommend resetting your router to factory default. Then you can enter a new longer password for your router. To reset your WRT54G, press a pencil or whatever will fit into the reset button behind the router, & kepp that button pressed in. Then power up your router. I think it takes a good 30 seconds or so before it rests. Then remove the pencil & use the default password to set up your router. Default is something like admin then blank space for password. It can be found through a search engine like https://www.startpage.com.
Cheers, Elcaset On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 12:12 AM, John Jason Jordan <[email protected]>wrote: > 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 > -- Free Geek Seattle- Helping The Needy Get Nerdy http://www.freegeekseattle.org/ https://groups.google.com/group/freegeek-seattle/topics?hl=en K Desktop Environment- Experience Freedom & User Friendliness http://kde.org/ Free Lossless Audio Codec https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Flac Protect your digital freedom and privacy, eliminate DRM, learn more at http://www.defectivebydesign.org/what_is_drm _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
