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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?

OpenWRT 0.9 / X-WRT 2.75

Last week I updated my WRTSL54GS to OpenWRT 0.9 with X-WRT 2.75.

Since my box has an USB port, I was missing a way to umount mounted usb storage. Looking deeper into it, I noticed that partitions get mounted by ‘/etc/hotplug.d/usb/01-mount’ like this:

# mount
[...]
part1 on /mnt/disc0_1 type ext3 (rw)
part2 on /mnt/disc0_2 type vfat (rw)

The correct devices are missing. A patch is available:

mount.patch

Okay … So far, so good. Now some tweaking to webif^2 for umounting attached usb storage devices. Here comes the patch:

umount-button.patch

Umount Buttons

Wireless Bridge and WPA(2) on Linksys Router … or how to look for a needle in a haystack

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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WRTSL54GS debridged

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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