Wireless Died on WRT54GS

Earlier this morning, all wireless computers on my WRT54GS v1.1 stopped communicating with the router. The SSID was no longer shown in the list of available networks. After disabling wireless on the router for a few minutes, and re-enabling it, the SSID now appears in the available network list with a strong signal. Some computers will connect, while others won't. Those that will connect will see the router, but can't access Internet, router configuration page, or other computers on the network, and no pings go through. All wired computers still connect just fine and nothing was changed anywhere on the network or in the router configuration prior to this. Any ideas?
Jason

Hi… If you have the wireless SSID on this router set as Linksys which is default, then change it to something else. Also make sure that you have not press that Cisco System SES button on the router. It activates SES and changes the security mode to WPA. So check your security mode and change it if needed. There is also a possibility that electric surge has damaged the firmware on the router, try upgrading the firmware from http://www.linksys.com/download.

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