[HELP] Factory reset Linsys E1200 Router

[Dot Matrix]

?Hey guys, I just moved into a new place, and had a friend give me their old Cisco Linksys E1200 router they had used previously. Unfortunately, it seems they did a bit of tinkering with it, erasing the stock firmware, and installing DD WRT.

?After a bit of troubleshooting with my friend, it seems we're at a crossroads at getting this thing factory reset. The only way I can connect to the net with it is with Eth port 1, and connecting the modem to Eth port 4. Eth ports 2 and 3 look to be DOA. Wireless is DOA. The router is giving off a 74.69.x.x IP address instead of the standard 192.168.x.x. The 30/30/30 reset didn't work. My friend had mentioned that it used to be part of a 10.10.10.x subnet.

Short story is: I can't log into the router at all to configure it. Is there a way to factory reset this thing without being able to do anything with it?

Anyone here familiar enough with DD WRT?

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[sc302 Veteran]

Ddwrt is simple enough, but you have a few issues going on there. You need to be able to get to done interface to manage it. If not you will need a jtag cable to get into it and reflash it. I would toss it and get a new router. It really wasnt the best router to begin with, meaning low end router.

[Dot Matrix]

Yeah, chances are I'm just going to return the router to my friend, and invest in a Netgear router.

I figured that if I couldn't load the webGUI, there was little to nothing that could be done.

[T3X4S]

I can tell you that some of the older DD-WRT and Tomato FW you had to do a different kind of hard reset - I think they called it a 30/30/30 reset method or something like that.

Since it was throwing out some strange IP address - you may have no "truly" reset it.

But you dont need to connect to it to do a reset...



 

[+BudMan MVC]

"Eth port 1, and connecting the modem to Eth port 4"
"The router is giving off a 74.69.x.x IP address instead of the standard 192.168.x.x"
 
I doubt the router was giving off anything - that looks like your public IP address that your isp would give - since you just connected a switch between you and your modem when you connected to port 1 and 4.
 
NetRange:       74.64.0.0 - 74.79.255.255
CIDR:           74.64.0.0/12
Organization:   Time Warner Cable Internet LLC (RRNY)
 
http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Hard_reset_or_30/30/30
Hard reset or 30/30/30

 

But I doubt that will work - just get a new router.  They can be had for $20 if need be.