hey all,

this is just something that i've noticed recently. i have a wireless network using a linksys router, but the only way i can actually change the configurations through the gateway address is through IE on my non-linux box. on linux i have mozilla 1.7 and when i try to save settings on my router it comes up with a script error. i can see all the settings, but saving them causes errors. is linksys dependant on microsofts IE? has anyone else experienced this or is it just me?

Try Firefox instead of Mozilla maybe? I can access and change my Linksys router just fine from Slackware and I use Firefox. I use Firefox on my Windows box as well, so it isn't an IE dependency.

While viewing in firefox you should probably have the IEview extension installed. Firefox will operate a bit slower when using the extension, because IE does too, but it should appear the same to a web page. You can get IEview here . It should be near the bottom of page 8. However i find that sometimes it disappears so you could also try here

on my windows machine, i have firefox, and i can't change anything from there either. maybe my configurations are blocking something

Do yout have Javascript enabled (Edit>Preferences>Web Features)? Under the advanced button I also allow everything except the two status bar options. I thought this was Firefox default, but I may be wrong.

in firefox i have those same settings, i still dunno whats going on with it

This may seem like a strange question, but what kernel are you using? The reason I'm asking is that the 2.4 series kernels had a setting for ECN (explicit congestion notification) somewhere in the network settings of the kernel config. In my experience, unless this was turned off, I couldn't access a linksys router at all from my Slackware boxen. This seems to be a kernel option that vanished in the 2.6 series, and to be honest I don't know if any of the stock 2.4 Slackware kernels had this enabled or disabled. But as I said, this prevented me from getting any access to the linksys router so the symptoms are slightly different from yours.