Solved Cannot enable wireless setting in D-Link router

[Mike99]

I cannot enable the wireless setting on my D-Link 601 router. It is grayed out along with all the other wireless settings on that setup page.

I used to be able to turn it on & off. It's usually turned off but I turned it on a few days ago to look at the various settings. I never saved any changes.

FWIW the Wireless Setup Wizard is also grayed out. I noticed it was that way a few days ago when I was done looking at the settings while using the Manual Wireless Setup, but do not recall what it looked like earlier.

Any ideas on what I might have done & how to get back access to the wireless settings?

 

[pbcopter]

Try resetting the router to factory default.

 

[Mike99]

Try resetting the router to factory default.

I thought about that & was hoping not to. All the wired stuff works & I'd hate to do a reset & then forget to click on some setting & spend more time trying to figure out which step I missed. But I'll probably end up doing a reset. I'll give D-LInk a call & maybe they have some simple solution.

 

[chev65]

Try resetting the router to factory default.

I thought about that & was hoping not to. All the wired stuff works & I'd hate to do a reset & then forget to click on some setting & spend more time trying to figure out which step I missed. But I'll probably end up doing a reset. I'll give D-LInk a call & maybe they have some simple solution.

Well actually resetting the router is about the only way to fix these types of problems.

Very simple and also Standard procedure.

 

[Mike99]

Got it working.

Tried another PC, but settings still grayed out.

Saved configuration & did a reset. Success - everything looked OK.
Loaded original config. This set things back to grayed out condition.

Did another reset & success again.
Did not re-load original config as it must contain whatever is causing the problem.

The only thing that I had to change was the Router IP Address.

Note: I tried to Rep both of you but the system would not let me. Apparently it defaults to the last person & it would not let me do it again.

 

[pbcopter]

I'm glad it worked out.