From: Deodiaus on
No, I cannot set up the router without installing the drivers. I
suppose that they are needed as no other driver off the WinXP CD
works.
Two years ago, I remember that I had this problem. I was running
WinXP64 and called up linksys tech support and they immediately knew
to go to the Device Manager and to remove one entry. As soon as I did
that, everything worked.
At that time, I did not think to write down the answer, and even if I
had, I probably don't know where to find it now.
Does anyone even know how to go about and figure out which device
driver could be giving me this conflict.
I fear going to the "free" device driver download sites, as I got a
virus with something I pulled off the web.

BTW, fifteen years ago, I telephone interviewed for a Boston based
company that wrote an AI program for diagnosing computer problems. I
guess they weren't very successful, as I don't remember their name nor
see them around anymore. Too bad that I guess I can't go over to
sourceforge.net and download a copy of their program.

On Mar 10, 5:32 pm, "Maxim S. Shatskih"
<ma...(a)storagecraft.com.no.spam> wrote:
>     Can you set up the router without installing any drivers using Telnet or web interface?
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> Maxim S. Shatskih
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> "Deodiaus" <deodi...(a)gmail.com> wrote in messagenews:42388418-5f85-4af6-b36b-c80d9d4319e0(a)d2g2000yqa.googlegroups.com...
> >I have a Linksys WRTP54G-VR
> > Wireless Broadband G router.
> > hooked up to a Motorola SB4200 via the LAN cable to Comcast.
>
> > It is connected to a HP Pavillion a1632x with a NVidea nForce Network
> > Controller card running Vista64 sp2  .  It worked fine under XP64
> > until my machine got a virus.
>
> > 1)
> > Is this device fully supported and tested under Vista64 sp2?  Has
> > anyone gotten it to work under Vista64?  Do the XP device drivers work
> > under Vista and is there anything that can be done to make them run in
> > backward compatibility mode?
> > 2)
> > I just installed XP64 on another HD.  I installed the router according
> > to the directions (on the install on the CD), but had a problem having
> > it detected.  I recall that I had the exact same problem 3 years ago
> > and called customer service.  I remember that the solution was to
> > bring up Control Panel>system>hardware>device Manager and to remove
> > one of the entries.  I don't know nor see which one.  When I did that,
> > the device seemed to reinsall and fix the problem.  Does anyone know
> > which one that is?????
>
> > Unfortunately, I don't want to shell out $40 to linksys for the
> > customer support on an old router like this.- Hide quoted text -
>
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From: MCheu on
On 18/03/2010 3:20 PM, Deodiaus wrote:
> No, I cannot set up the router without installing the drivers. I
> suppose that they are needed as no other driver off the WinXP CD
> works.
> Two years ago, I remember that I had this problem. I was running
> WinXP64 and called up linksys tech support and they immediately knew
> to go to the Device Manager and to remove one entry. As soon as I did
> that, everything worked.
> At that time, I did not think to write down the answer, and even if I
> had, I probably don't know where to find it now.
> Does anyone even know how to go about and figure out which device
> driver could be giving me this conflict.
> I fear going to the "free" device driver download sites, as I got a
> virus with something I pulled off the web.
>
> BTW, fifteen years ago, I telephone interviewed for a Boston based
> company that wrote an AI program for diagnosing computer problems. I
> guess they weren't very successful, as I don't remember their name nor
> see them around anymore. Too bad that I guess I can't go over to
> sourceforge.net and download a copy of their program.
>

You mentioned in your earlier post that this router was connected via a
LAN connection. If that is the case, the only driver involved should
be for the LAN chipset. The router itself should require NO drivers --
at least not on the client machines hooked into it.

The disc that comes with routers is NOT a driver disc. That disc
typically contains digital copies of the manual(s) and maybe a setup
wizard that helps you configure the router. It does the same job as
accessing the router's setup webpage (http://192.168.1.1/ is default for
a linksys router). It does not install any drivers onto the system.

The only situation I can think of where you might need to re-install a
driver is if the LAN driver is hosed. This can come up if you've
installed the wrong driver at some point. For that, you can delete the
LAN entry under the networking section of device manager and let Windows
re-detect it. If the generic drivers included with windows don't work,
you'll probably need to dig out the driver disc for your LAN card. For
most people, this is on the disc that came with the motherboard.

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-MCheu