I have the identical problem described in a thread by "ladygetaway" in November of 2006.
I have two Netgear WG602v3 access points which I bought and installed successfully two years ago. Recently it became necessary to reinstall the AP by returning them to factory defaults and then reconfiguring fo a new network. So I pressed the reset button on the back for 10 seconds and the wireless LED flashed as it should. Now the fun begins. I cannot get access to the setup menu in either AP by
following the installation instruction in the manual.
1) connect AP directly to PC
2) set PC IP address to
3) set mask to
4) open IE8 browser and enter IP address to bring up the setup menu.
The reason this is not working is because the PC thinks the network cable is unplugged which it is not. I have tried several cables and even a new crossover cable (which should not be necessary) just in case. All give same results.
I am running Windows XP sp3 on a fairly new dell E5400.
Ipconfig returns the IP and mask and no gateway.
pinging returns errors like packets sent=4 Receives =2 lost =2 (50% loss) or a "request timed out" message.
The tread in 2006 never resolved the issue. Any thoughts would be appreciated.
MLPMLP