In an effort to save money and not buy a $100 Xbox wireless adapter, I put DD-WRT on a cheap router and it has worked great for 2 years. Now I'm using a new wireless router, so I need to get into the router with DD-WRT to switch the name of the wireless network.

Usually I just plug in an Ethernet cable in, cut off the wireless card, and go to 192.168.1.1 to get into the DD-WRT settings. Now that IP doesn't take me anywhere. This happened once before and I just did an 'ipconfig' and found that I had changed the IP of the router to 192.168.2.1. Now the problem is that when I do the 'ipconfig' the place where the IP of the router is, is blank.

Any advice would be appreciated.

7/31/2010 6:26:14 PM

What's the ip of your computer?

7/31/2010 6:45:02 PM

when plugged into the router (the DD-WRT one): 169.254.91.43

While using the wireless: 192.168.1.7

[Edited on July 31, 2010 at 6:58 PM. Reason : .]

7/31/2010 6:54:46 PM

That 169 means you're not getting an ip from the router. Double check the cable, try a new one, check for link light on the nic, etc. Also check the settings of your nic to make sure it's set up to take an address from DHCP.

Have you tried going to 192.168.1.1 while on wireless? Unless you specifically turned wireless access off, most routers will allow access that way. There might be no need to go wired to do the config.

7/31/2010 6:57:57 PM

the reason that I get the 169 is because it's not connected to the internet. This one has to receive a wireless signal to produce a wired line.

I just tested it using my old wireless router (hellifino). This is the wireless network that the DD-WRT is told to look for to bridge. It works fine. I just moved into a new house and they already have a wireless network (RouterBitch). I just need to get into the settings on the DD-WRT and change hellifino to RouterBitch. I just can't get to the settings screen on the DD-WRT.

Cable, lights, power cycle, etc are good.

Going to 192.168.1.1 on wireless just takes me to the wireless router setting screen. The router that I need to get to doesn't produce a wireless signal. When I put DD-WRT firmware on it, I made it so it receives a wireless signal and only puts out a signal on the wired connection. This router is only used on the Xbox as a wireless adapter

I apologize if I sound condescending this thing is just pissing me off; I appreciate the help though.

7/31/2010 7:19:24 PM

Quote :

"the reason that I get the 169 is because it's not connected to the internet."

That's not true. The 169 means you're not getting ANYTHING from dhcp. A router will still hand out private ip addresses no matter if it's connected to the internet or not.

Unless you told your wired router to start handing out addresses in the 169.x.x.x block, that's gonna be your problem.

I'm not sure what setup you're on, but you may have to manually configure the ip address on your computer in order to get on the same network as the configuration side of the modem. If you're using it as a bridge (which is what you're doing) it's gonna be handing out ip addresses from the pool that the "main" router is using. Since your main router recently changed, that's most likely why you're seeing a 169 address. If you remember a 192.168.2.x scheme try setting up your computer manually to have an address 192.168.2.44 (or any number between 2 and 253 really) and see if you can get to 192.168.2.1 in a browser. That's what I have to do when I want to change the configuration of my Motorola bridge (except mine is on the 192.168.30.x scheme)

7/31/2010 7:29:01 PM

If it's two years old it's probably time to reflash your DD-WRT to the latest version anyway.

Grab the latest edition, your ethernet cable, and a TFTP program. Takes like 10 minutes.

When it comes back up set it for client bridge or use one of the great tutorials in their documentation.

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8/1/2010 2:43:25 PM

Just an update, I ran an Ethernet cable from my modem into the bridge router then router to laptop and it connected just fine to the 192.168.1.1. I guess it just wanted to be connected to the internet. Don't understand why, I've never had to do it that way before. She works great now. Thanks for the help though.

2 laptops, 3 routers, 1 modem, and 3 hours later I have a cheap wireless adapter for the Xbox. Haha doesn't really seem worth it.

[Edited on August 3, 2010 at 1:10 PM. Reason : .]

8/3/2010 1:07:14 PM

Goddamn you don't understand a word of what you were told in this thread nor what you yourself are saying do you?

Fuck me that's dense.

[Edited on August 3, 2010 at 1:18 PM. Reason : *]

8/3/2010 1:18:02 PM

Dude I came here because I really don't understand much about this stuff. No need to tell me that I'm fucking "dense" on this subject because I know I am.

Once again thanks to El Nachó for the patience and advice.

Man you internet tough guys need to lighten up.

[Edited on August 3, 2010 at 1:36 PM. Reason : .]

8/3/2010 1:36:07 PM

Eh, there's plenty of times when I got something working and had no idea what the fuck I was doing or how I did it.

You got it working, and that's what matters.

8/3/2010 1:41:30 PM

Oh I'm sorry I thought you could read and comprehend the English language.

8/3/2010 2:15:45 PM