Matthew Revell

The past few days I’ve tried using my ThinkPad R50e with a wired connection to my Linksys WRT54GS (version 6). I’m running Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy).

Each time I plugged the Ethernet cable into the Thinkpad, Network Manager took far longer than usual to connect to the network. Once connected, I had no access outside my own network – i.e. no internet access – and even connecting to some machines on my network was hit and miss.

The fix: a firmware upgrade. My router was running 1.50.6 of the firmware. Under 1.50.9, everything’s fine and dandy. Visit the WRT54GS downloads page.