Hey all,
First off, thanks for reading and any help you might be able to offer! I probably should have posted in the Network forum, but there's not many people there.
Here's the problem:
I just moved and got AT&T DSL hooked up. They sent me a Siemens Speedstream 4100 modem. I have a Linksys BEFSR41 router (wired only, 4 port ethernet).
Now I can't get the router to recognize the modem. On the front of the router are LEDs for each ethernet port and the WAN port. The LINK LED just won't light up no matter what I try - which signals that the router won't recognize the modem. The modem recognizes that the other end is plugged in (via the Ethernet LED).
The thing is that the 4100 modem has the PPPoE authentication on it, which works fine. I can hook the modem directly to my computer and everything works fine. So it must be the router-modem connection.
I've tried:
Having the router get an IP automatically from the modem.
Changing the router's IP address.
Having the modem pass PPPoE authentication to the router.
Bridging the modem.
Power cycling the guts out of everything.
No matter what I do, it never lights up the LINK LED. Its driving me nuts! I'm hoping someone's experienced a similar issue and can help me out?
First off, thanks for reading and any help you might be able to offer! I probably should have posted in the Network forum, but there's not many people there.
Here's the problem:
I just moved and got AT&T DSL hooked up. They sent me a Siemens Speedstream 4100 modem. I have a Linksys BEFSR41 router (wired only, 4 port ethernet).
Now I can't get the router to recognize the modem. On the front of the router are LEDs for each ethernet port and the WAN port. The LINK LED just won't light up no matter what I try - which signals that the router won't recognize the modem. The modem recognizes that the other end is plugged in (via the Ethernet LED).
The thing is that the 4100 modem has the PPPoE authentication on it, which works fine. I can hook the modem directly to my computer and everything works fine. So it must be the router-modem connection.
I've tried:
Having the router get an IP automatically from the modem.
Changing the router's IP address.
Having the modem pass PPPoE authentication to the router.
Bridging the modem.
Power cycling the guts out of everything.
No matter what I do, it never lights up the LINK LED. Its driving me nuts! I'm hoping someone's experienced a similar issue and can help me out?