{"id":6653,"date":"2011-06-17T07:41:34","date_gmt":"2011-06-17T11:41:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/?p=6653"},"modified":"2011-06-18T11:26:47","modified_gmt":"2011-06-18T15:26:47","slug":"a-nook-color-shaped-brick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/17\/a-nook-color-shaped-brick\/","title":{"rendered":"a Nook Color-shaped brick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/11-06-18-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6662\" title=\"browsing this very page\" src=\"http:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/11-06-18-1-187x320.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"187\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/11-06-18-1-187x320.png 187w, https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/11-06-18-1-93x160.png 93w, https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/11-06-18-1.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 187px) 100vw, 187px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Update<\/strong>: it works! And, suspiciously, I made no changes to the router settings, so I must add \u00e2\u20ac\u201d with perhaps a smallish serving of humble pie, since I can&#8217;t prove I got the password right or wrong before \u00e2\u20ac\u201d the following two steps to the troubleshooting script:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>are you sure the wireless password is correct?<\/li>\n<li>are you <strong>sure<\/strong> the wireless password is correct?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It&#8217;s really annoying that B&amp;N tech support recommend hard resetting the device, as that leaves it useless until you get to a compatible network. I&#8217;d like to thank <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chapters.indigo.ca\/home\/storeLocator\/storeDetails\/929\/\">chapters.indigo.ca<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cafe-mirage.com\/html\/rest3.html\">Caf\u00c3\u00a9 Mirage<\/a> for providing excellent connectivity to the Kennedy Commons parking lot to allow me to re-register my Nook Color &#8230;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>I have a <a href=\"http:\/\/bn.com\/\">Barnes &amp; Noble<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/nookcolor.com\/\">Nook Color<\/a>. Well, no; I have something the size, shape, colour, weight, and smell of a Nook Color, but it might as well be a brick. It seems that, unless you&#8217;re exceptionally lucky with your router choice, it won&#8217;t connect to wireless. This is, for what is essentially a wireless information browser, a bit of a problem.<\/p>\n<p>What happens with my Linksys WRT350N is that the Nook shows network <em>Authenticating<\/em>, then network <em>Remembered<\/em>, then network <em>Authenticating<\/em> again, then network <em>Disconnecting<\/em>, then finally <em>Disabled, secured with WPA\/WPA2 PSK<\/em>. I called tech support (1-800-THE-BOOK; and if you&#8217;re in Canada, use Google Voice from gmail, as you get into tech support, where using a real phone puts you on hold then gets you kicked off), where I was told to hard reset the machine. That didn&#8217;t work; now I have a machine stuck in perpetual &#8220;<em>Register your Nook<\/em>&#8221; mode until I get to a different network. The tech support dude suggested taking it back to the store, then got completely flummoxed when I said I was in Canada.<\/p>\n<p>What I&#8217;ve tried:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Forgetting then reconnecting to the network; <em>nope<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Restarting the router; <em>nope<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Updating the router firmware; <em>nope, already on latest version<br \/>\n<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Checking the Nook firmware; <em>nope, already on 1.2.0<br \/>\n<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Entering the Nook&#8217;s MAC address into the router filter table; <em>nope.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What I haven&#8217;t yet tried is <a href=\"http:\/\/bookclubs.barnesandnoble.com\/t5\/NOOK-Color-Technical-Support\/Nook-color-WiFi-connection-issue-resolved\/m-p\/900956\/message-uid\/900956#U900956\">downgrading my network to Wireless G<\/a>, which seems to be the suggested solution. But, c&#8217;mon \u00e2\u20ac\u201d this is a device released late last year. B&amp;N want me to downgrade my stable, slightly elderly router just to get this new trinket to work? Not gonna happen.<\/p>\n<p>Oh and while we&#8217;re ranting, Barnes &amp; Noble: do you <strong>really<\/strong> need to send me a sales e-mail <em><strong>every bloody day<\/strong><\/em>? I&#8217;ve just bought one of your blasted things, and every morning I&#8217;m getting &#8220;Buy a Nook!&#8221; in my inbox. Make it stop, okay?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Update: it works! And, suspiciously, I made no changes to the router settings, so I must add \u00e2\u20ac\u201d with perhaps a smallish serving of humble pie, since I can&#8217;t prove I got the password right or wrong before \u00e2\u20ac\u201d the following two steps to the troubleshooting script: are you sure the wireless password is correct? 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