Monthly Archive for October, 2009

Just after election … welcome in reality!

OpenWRT WDS works like charm

A try with OpenWRT 8.09 in April to setup a WDS with additional AP functionality and encryption, like described in the documentation, failed. So I keeped with my halfbroken solution running on DD-WRT, which is going a bit too commercial these days in my eyes.
Now I have found time to try OpenWRT again for this purpose, since the issue was fixed really fast. I just did setup a stock 8.09.1 installation and then dropped the following into /etc/config/wireless:

config ‘wifi-device’ ‘wl0′
      option ‘type’ ‘broadcom’
      option ‘channel’ ’5′
      option ‘disabled’ ’0′
config wifi-iface
      option device “wl0″
      option network lan
      option mode ap
      option ssid “OpenWrt”
      option encryption psk2
      option key “keyforclients”
config wifi-iface
      option device “wl0″
      option network lan
      option mode wds
      option bssid 00:16:B6:19:63:C8
      option ssid “OpenWrtWDS”
      option encryption psk2
      option key “pskforWDS”

And guess what? It worked like a charm! So I could replace the odd DD-WRT boxes. Anyways ... does anybody have an idea where to find the sourcecode of anything > v23 SP1?


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