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Jackofall's original "

Connecting an Asus WL500g deluxe to your network" guide. Great care must be

taken in selecting the correct firmware version for your model.

Accessing your Asus

Your initial access to the Asus will be through a wired Ethernet connection, until you have the

wireless connection set up.

You will need to make sure that your PC and the Asus are on the same IP address range (subnet),

by default this is the address range from 192.168.1.1 to 192.168.1.254. The Asus itself has a

default IP address of 192.168.1.1, and this is the one that is used in this guide. Make sure your

existing ADSL modem/router's IP address, and any other PCs on your network, don't conflict with

the address you use for the Asus.

If you are connecting your PC straight to the Asus with an Ethernet cable to do the initial

configuration, you will need to assign a static IP address to your PC, eg 192.168.1.2.

If you need help in setting up a static IP on your PC visit

http://www.portforward.com/networking/static-xp.htm

Accessing your Asus through a web browser

The normal way of accessing your Asus is through a web browser, with the IP address of your Asus

as the address (the default is 192.168.1.1).

This gives you the web configuration interface of the Asus, and you'll be using that to set up the

basic configuration.

Accessing your Asus using Telnet

In most of the procedures in this guide you will need to enter Linux commands and edit files.

This is done by using telnet – this gives you command-line access to the router. There are a number

of telnet clients you can run on your PC to do this, and Windows comes with a command-prompt

version of Telnet built in. PuTTY comes highly-recommended as a telnet client.

Please note that if you want to access your Asus using telnet before you have installed Oleg's

firmware, you will need to turn it on in the web interface. Enable it under System Setup ->

Services.

If you get as far as installing the dropbear sshd server, you can also access the router using an ssh

client (PuTTY is an ssh client as well as a telnet client).

MS Windows Telnet

To start Telnet, open a command prompt window (you can do this by clicking on Run from the Start

button, and entering cmd, or you can find it elsewhere in the start menu).

Then type

telnet 192.168.1.1

and enter your user id and password (the defaults are admin and admin).

Hints and tips:

a) You can paste stuff into the telnet window by positioning the mouse pointer over it and right-

clicking. Note that if you are using the vi editor you will need to press i to get into insert mode

first. If you paste multiple lines of text that contain indentations into vi, vi does some strange

things with the indentations, so you are probably better off pasting line-by-line.

b) You can copy text from the telnet window by selecting it by clicking and dragging with the

mouse, and then pressing the Enter key. The selected text will be highlighted in white (unless

you have changed the default command prompt colours).

c) If you get into a mess, and nothing seems to be responding, type ctrl-] and type quit at the

Microsoft Telnet> prompt. This will close the telnet session and return you to the Windows

command prompt

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