So for the past couple of days i've been trying to access my AP and it just won't bloody work!
I've reset it back to default which should give it the ip 192.168.0.50 but when ever i change my local ip so that it's on the same subnet it just won't work. I aso tried plugging it directlky into my laptop and that still didn't work
I tried looking at the ipv4 properties for it when plugging it directly in and it for some rediculous reason says that it'sip is 169.254.120.44 which it has never ever been before.
That 169.whatever IP is Windows's autoconfiguration address. It uses that address in situations where it can't get an address any other way. As for the access point, make sure the access point and the router are in the same subnet, and make sure DHCP is on in the router.
Ok well I think you might be right about the DHCP thing because when i plugged it into my laptop it said something about it not having a DHCP and that it was going to 'repair' it, which didn't happen. I ran the troubleshoot thing at it said: 'Ethernet doesn't have a valid IP configuration'. Do you know anything about that?
When you connect your laptop directly to it you have to manually set your IP address to something on the 192.168.0.0 subnet. You're getting that weird IP because there's no DHCP server.
If you've tried that and you still can't get in then maybe 192.158.0.50 isn't the default IP, you could try using a network scanner to check what IP addresses are on the network.
Is your access point just an access point or is it a router too? Because if it's a router and you reset it back to factory default then the DHCP server should be on and it should give you an IP when you are connected to it, so maybe it hasn't actually reset.
Well it appears to be working now after i went into CMD and typed ipconfig /renew and it put it back to 192.168.0.50 and it showed up like that too when i went into network status and then details.
So it's all fixed now :) Still have no idea why it even happened though :/
It couldn't find a DHCP server, renewing it make it look again. No idea why it didn't work the first time.
If you're on windows then look for the windows binary. If you're on linux then nmap will probably be in the repositories so just search for it in your package manager or whatever.
To use it to find available hosts on a network type your network address in the target box, this will be 192.168.0.0/24 or whatever your network is, then choose ping scan for the profile and click scan. this will quickly ping all IPs on the network and report back which ones exist. The other scans will look for open ports and other information, but they can take a long time to complete.