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Bridge mode is highly unlikely. The mask tells me you have public addresses. Did the gateway address work to talk to the linksys?
Most consumer packages out here are single addresses and people run NAT'd private nets. Business connections are usually required for a public range. But that's out here.
Again, private ranges are the 192.168. or 10., etc address ranges. The unwashed masses usually only get one public address and so have to use "fake" private ranges on the inside of their router. So routers ship using those private ranges as the default LAN range. To initially config them you have to set a system to talk to it (auto or static), then configure it. Once configured, if you're using public addresses then the private addressing is gone. You have to use the new address. That could explain why 192.168.1.1 worked but then stopped.
I'm not speaking or thinking clearly but sounds like you're close.
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