D-Link DWL G820 frustrations

The packaging says "It's so easy" all you have to do is put your machine on the same IP range as the bridge, namely the 192.168.0.x range and hit http://192.168.0.35/ to get the onboard HTTP control panel. Only what happens if you do this and you get "Bad Request 400" from IE? You ping the device and it responds in under 1ms, but you cannot http connect to it.

I have 2 of these devices, I had set them up sucessfully in the past but one day they just stopped seeing the network, dead as a dodo. I tried to reconfigure them using a hard connection but I could not access the http control panel (I had previously). In the end I got them working again by talking to their command line interface via telnet. I've documented it here just in case you are having the same problem and need some help.

Set up a hard connection to the bridge then type

telnet 192.168.0.35

you should get a request for a username and password, enter them..

typing 'help' will give you a list of commands. Here's what I had to do to get the bridge working with my WEP enabled wireless network again...

set factorydefault
(this restored the factory default settings so I could start from a known place)

find all
(this showed that it could in fact see my wireless network)

set ssid BURCHWLAN
(the name of my wireless network)

set key 104 37ed8310a43c416bc9885166ab
(set my WEP key, this is not it guys ;) )

set cipher wep
set 11gonly
set encryption enable
reboot

after the bridge rebooted the WLAN light stayed on and now worked correctly.

Hope this help saves you some time. Let me know if it does.