I was searching half a night and 2 hours today to get a Linksys Router working a wireless bridge with WPA(2) encryption. I tried Openwrt White Russian RC5 and DD-Wrt V23 SP1 and many combinations of WPA, WPA2, TKIP, AES. The bridge works well with WEP and without any encryption….
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Okay … we got the serial port running (same like WRT54GS), so we could be more risky. After some tries I decided to work analog the WRT54G models.
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Don´t ask how, but we got some units to europe.
The first thing we does, was to install openwrt and to try debridge the switch to have multiple interfaces instead. We was able to remove ports from the switch, but cant create additional working vlans like on WRT54G. So at this point its useless for our purpose. But we will start exploring as son as possible we have a running serial console.
Today my goal was to get an AVM Fritz!Card running to send SMS via yaps.
Since on the old system is running kernel 2.4.x at the time of setup the only option was to use the capi driver and some hacks with hylafax to get all running. I don’t wonna look deeper into the old setup, to prevent to get mad. Anyways … an other setup was a faxserver. This was implemented also with the capi driver and capisuite.
So I was going straight forward and installed the capi driver on the known way.
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