Linksys SRW208L has IE-only web interface (Score 1)

I recently purchased a SRW208L managed switch from Linksys. On paper, it sounds great: 1000/100/10 speed, 8 port switch with PoE and VLAN capability and a nice port mirroring feature. Unfortunately, when I unpacked it and pointed my Safari browser at it, I got only a background colour without any menus. Same for Firefox. I have only Mac and Linux machines available in the place where this switch will be used and configured so its really annoying that they cant get a simple embedded web server to work.

A search of Linksys's own forums found lots of angry owners with the same problem. Unlike Linksys's other products, this one's web interface is written by morons and somehow does not display anything on standards compliant browsers. Their engineers must have worked really hard to make it only work in IE.

I had an online chat with a Linksys rep who empathised with my dissatisfaction but kept returning to the line that 'it says on the spec it works best in IE6'. 'Best'! Ha! 'Best implies that SOMETHING would work in other browsers. After I explained that I am using a Mac, he suggested using their 'workaround' which involved installing 'IE Tabs' in Firefox. Riiiiigght, not quite sure what a Mac is, are we matey? My argument is that it claims to have a HTTP interface. My browser does HTTP, yet it does not work. I want a refund, they said 'no'. This is just total incompetence from their software developers and is totally indefensible in today's IT world.