GGameBoy I had exactly the same problem and it is very frustrating. I am running XP Pro and not Vista so I hope I can help. Are you running ZoneAlarm? If so add your router ip address (192.168.1.1) to the site list under the privacy section. Allow it to set cookies, run mobile code, etc..... I set everything but third party cookies to enable. The page then showed fine. Please let us know if this worked or not.

Cheers!

I think the default settings for that router are:
admin:
pass:admin

Hello,

I am unfortunately having the same problem as Gameboy. I cant seem to view the full admin page once i log in.
I honestly cant remember the last time i had to log in into my router, so i can't say for certain what programs/updates have been installed since the last proper log in session. I don't have Zone alarm right now, but i did have it a while back and i was able to view the router web page fine. Also, I have avast and i did add in a url exception (httP://192.168.1.1) but it didn't change anything, and i know that i was able to log in fine previously with avast running, since i've been using this program for a while now. Its really irritating cause i cant configure anything in my router, and i did try to reset the router manually by pressing the reset button for 30 sec, and i also tried to turn everything off (power, computer, disconnect everything and reconnect) but didnt make a difference. I have updated the firmware once before (long time ago), but i was able to log in fine even after the update, so im not sure what caused this.

Im running Xp pro, and here is a pic of how the admin page looks like when i log in.
Any help would be much appreciated, thanks in advance..

http://h.imagehost.org/0968/wrt54g_admin_page.jpg

Two things:

Frustrated- There is a good chance you have a router that is failing. To be sure, disconnect the internet side, disable any security software you have (even if it seems like it wouldn't interfere), and try again. If that works, re-enable until you find the culprit. If you have access to another computer- maybe you could take the router to the computer even- it would be useful in determining quickly whether you have a problem in your PC or your router. If it is the router, the problem is likely the firmware as you seem to have suspected. There is often a means of resetting the firmware back to the factory version by performing some ackward startup routine such as holding in the reset button then plugging in the power and waiting for the LAN lights to start blinking. (I just made that up, I doubt it's correct for your router.) If it's software, well, that's a whole other can of worms. Good luck!


Others- Thanks for the ideas. The issue I was having was with accessing the config pages from my terminal server only. It would prompt me to log in, but then only show me a blank white page. After finding this thread via Google search, I decided to add the local IP address of the router to the allowed sites under the Privacy tab of IE, as well as adding it as a Trusted Site on the Security tab. It then worked perfectly. :)

I had the same problem too.. it happened just a few weeks ago. last month i still can access my router linksys.
i'm using that router for my office network. i think there is some kind of viruses, trojan, or worm infected one of workstation in my office, because i checked every computer on the network, and I found there is one computer that has send and receive packets more than 1,000,000,000bytes in just a few minutes. Is there any idea what was happened ? thanks.

FYI, i have formatted that computer twice. and it still did the same thing. :(

Bad net card probably.

Similar problem here. I think it has something to do with IE8. In the bottom left corner there is an error symbol and if I click that it shows ie8 encountering many errors loading the page. Should be able to fix the problem by updating the firmware or by going back to IE7.

Anyone try FireFox with the IE Tab extension? Just curious; I use it for TS Web Access and it works perfectly.

Hi,
I experienced the problem of not being able to display the web address of my router . I noticed that the problem started after I installed the shit IE 8.When I uninstalled it, everything is going well. My system is win xp sp3
my best regards.

Download and update the firmware from Linksys (you'll need to know you hardware version)
Use IE 7 to access your Router and update the firmware.
Then you should be able to access router from IE 8.

MAKE SURE you are NOT using ANY IE InPrivate filtering at all. The pictures that the users here have linked look EXACTLY like the problem I discovered. Disabling InPrivate filtering on IE does NO GOOD, the pages still WILL NOT LOAD PROPERLY. I do not know which filter IE picks up that stops these pages from loading correctly, my ONLY way around this was to delete ALL InPrivate / Ad filters. If someone finds out which ad filter is specifically doing this please let me know.

Hi All- just Googled and got this thread.

I'm having similar issues with an old Netgear router and a Senao AP, and to me the prob seems to be linked to the OS, not the browser or router. And the problem seems to "update" itsself into older OS's as it goes. Same symptoms- missing buttons, etc, or I get the complete page but when I enter changes (like login details from another ISP) then the router just crashes.

Problem first noted on my desktop under Windows 7 (build 7000) and FF, confirmed with IE and Chrome. Windows firewall and AVG AV
Then tested on Laptop with same OS, security and browsers, same result.
Tested on both machines and all 3 browsers with firewall and AV disabled, same result
Booted Desktop to XP SP3 with ZoneAlarm and AVG and tested fine under all 3 browsers
Booted Laptop to Vista Home Premium with ZA and AVG, tested fine in all browsers

Since then I have gone to Windows 7 build 7100 and dropped the AVG in favour of Avast. No change.
My Laptop under Vista can now no longer access the devices correctly. I have changed nothing but auto updates are activated.
I accidentally broke the XP install on my desktop so reinstalled it- not as dual-boot but as a Virtual Machine under Win 7 (7100) As a clean install of XP SP3 it worked fine, but auto-updates has now made it not access the devices correctly.
I have also tried an old version of FF (2.0) with updates disabled in these 4 environments without success.
My daughter's machine (XP SP3, FF, AVG, ZA) still works fine