How morons configure their routers

When you have an ADSL router with a wifi PCMCIA card in it, then ripping the card out to view some data from it, and shoving it back in and hoping wifi just comes up magically itself again is NOT a sign of particularly high intelligence. Yet that’s still what I did. And brought down the wifi of many people for a while.

The “fix” was actually simpler than I feared. I thought (well, started thinking obviously when the damage had already been done) that when you unplugged the card, it lost its settings or something, and you had to log on to the router admin (without anyone having the logon credentials obviously) to reconfigure the WLAN. Fortunately, all that I had to do was to unpower the router, plug the card back in and boot it up and after a while, all was good again in the network land.