[TriLUG] WRT54G as WAP

[Matt Frye]

First off....beware of 2.4GHx cordless phones.  I had to advise my mom
to go buy a nice wired phone for her office.  Whenever she brought my
sister's cordless across the hall, it created a nice wall of rf
interference for the AP.

MPF

On Mon, 30 Aug 2004 10:19:20 -0400, Rick DeNatale
<rick.denatale at gmail.com> wrote:
> Please no flames about the unworthiness of 802.11.
> 
> I just got a Linksys WRT54G which I'm trying to use as an access point
> instead of a router.
> A bit of googling indicated that this SHOULD work. The advice all
> seemed to be to 1) connect only to the lan side switch ports on the
> WRT54G, and 2) disable it's DHCP server.
> 
> First I direct connected to the WRT54G and changed it's ip address
> from it's default of 192.168.1.1/24 to 192.168.0.12/24 so that it's on
> the same subnet as the rest of the lan, and disabled it's dhcp server.
> 
> After than I connected it to the LAN. I ignored the WAN port, and
> connected it to my lan (which connects to my ISP via a Netgear FVS318
> gateway at 192.168.0.11 by the way), via one of the four switch ports
> on the WRT54G.
> 
> I can now see it's web server at 192.168.0.12 from machines on the
> lan. I then proceeded to set up ssid, WEP keys, etc.
> 
> Then I went to a windoze laptop and set the security there so the card
> driver says it's connected via 802.11g the card is an AirLink+ 802.11g
> Wireless CardBus adapter.
> 
> However, I can't ping either 192.168.0.12, or 192.168.11. And of
> course the laptop isn't seeing the DHCP server on the Netgear either.
> 
> I've also tried this with an SMC2632W, which acts the same way, albeit
> with an 802.11b connection.
> 
> I've played around a bit with the WAN side settings, although they
> really shouldn't matter since I'm not using that interface on the
> WRT54G.
> 
> Does anyone have any ideas on what's going on, or how to make this
> work?  I got the WRT54G with the idea that I might want to hack it in
> the future, since it's open source, but I'd rather get it up and
> working first!
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