Re: [SLE] WRT54G wireless woes


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From: Glenn Holmer <gholmer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Just got a Linksys WRT54G and putting it through its paces. PPPoE and
> switch components work great, but I'm having trouble with wireless. I
> had been using a 3Com access point, which my ThinkPad and Zaurus could
> both see without issues, but neither can see the WRT54G. On the
> ThinkPad, the output of iwconfig shows zeros for the WRT54G's MAC
> address (i.e. it didn't associate), although kinternet's "wireless
> connection" dialog and "iwlist scan" show it by ESSID with the correct
> MAC address. Neither the ThinkPad nor the Zaurus have the access
> point's MAC address specified. (I normally use 64-bit WEP, but also
> tried with no encryption.)
>
> What might I have done wrong? I've spent hours twiddling bits on the
> WRT54G. It's a version 5, and I upgraded to the latest firmware (for
> that version, it's 1.00.4). The ThinkPad is running SUSE 10.0 and using
> ipw2100 driver.
>
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I picked up one of these recently, I got lucky and got an old stock version. I was reading up on these prior to buying (considering the openwrt, version) and found out that version 5 has problems. with staying connected. It has some new checkbox for one that seems to be giving problems. It also doesn't run Linux. Might check out dslreports or I even found one persons answer at Amazon, in their review.

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