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Sat May 22, 2010 2:20 am Post subject: WRTP54G router - ethernet ports not working (sort of)
I've had a WRTP54G (firmware 1.00.62) working for a few years now, with no issues w/ the phone itself, or the wireless. About 6 months ago, I tried to connect a hard-wired laptop to the router, and didn't have any luck. Windows XP shows no wired connection, and the LEDs do not turn on, on the router, for the given ports.
After doing the classic "swaptronix" and made sure that all of the tested cables and computers were working otherwise, I tried hooking up a downlink port of my WRTP54G to the uplink port of my old BEFW11S4 (one of the original wireless 4-port routers from Linksys). As soon as I do that, the connection LED lights up on Vonage router, and then I'm able to make the hard connection, but *through* another router.
I've been living with this for a while, and finally decided to take a look at this tonight. Still no luck. I've tried power-cycling all of the devices involved, with no luck.
So I did read a thread somewhere about someone saying that having a PC that's trying to auto-negotiate a data rate connecting to a router that has the same feature can sometimes cause some problems, when it comes to the two devices seeing each other (i.e. 10/100/1000 not negotiating w/ a 10/100). He had mentioned something about turning off DHCP and manually configuring the PC. I gave it a try, w/ no luck.
Does anyone else have any suggestions? It seems like a lot of the posts dead-end in saying that the chipset is fried, but I don't think that's the case on mine, since it will work if the downstream device is a router. It really does sound like it might be an auto-negotiation issue, but I'm not networking-savvy enough to determine if the steps that I took are the proper ones.
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