Setup WPA PSK on WRT54G, but notebook still connects with no securty!

Hey everyone, I'm trying to setup WPA PSK and on the router side, it all
looks fine.

However my notebook finds my SSID (i'm broadcasting for now) and connects
with no security settings at all, properties of connection state no
encryption, open authentication.????

Anyone have an idea what's going on? I'm using the DD-WRT v23 firmware if
that's anyhelp.

Johny B

"John" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>However my notebook finds my SSID

Is there any chance there's another AP with that same SSID out there?
Even one with broadcast turned off?

On Thu, 22 Dec 2005 08:05:36 -0500, "John" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>Hey everyone, I'm trying to setup WPA PSK and on the router side, it all
>looks fine.
>
>However my notebook finds my SSID (i'm broadcasting for now) and connects
>with no security settings at all, properties of connection state no
>encryption, open authentication.????

Ever consider the possibility that your laptop client is mis-reporting
the connection status? I played with a Belkin F5D7001 PCMCIA card
that did exactly that. It reported all connections as not-encrypted.

"Open Authentication" is something different. It has to do with
whether the system also uses the shared encryption key for partial
authentication. The choices are usually "open" or "shared key".
Shared key is a security risk as sniffing it give excessive clues as
to the contents of the shared key. Open is considered to be the safer
choice.

>Anyone have an idea what's going on? I'm using the DD-WRT v23 firmware if
>that's anyhelp.

dd-wrt 2.3 is still in beta testing. Releases still seem to be
arriving almost daily but the announcement on the home page implies
that it's just about ready to be declared stable. Along the way,
there were some bugs that involved WPA. I don't recall that this is
one of them, but it might be worth updating to a later release and see
if it fixes the problem.

Change log. Search for WPA.

http://dd-wrt.gruftie.com/dd-wrtv2/d...=changelog.txt

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On Thu, 22 Dec 2005 08:05:36 -0500, John wrote:

> Hey everyone, I'm trying to setup WPA PSK and on the router side, it all
> looks fine.
>
> However my notebook finds my SSID (i'm broadcasting for now) and connects
<snip>

As for disabling the SSID - waste of time. Besides, having the SSID enebaled
will prevent other in your area trying to use the same channel and causing
interference.