WAP54g AP and WRT54g in repeater mode

Hello,

My WRT54g is working perfect. I now bought a WAP54g to use in repeater
mode but as soon as I connect the WAP54g to the power I loose all network...
The WAP is in the signal range of the WRT (iwconfig gives from 8/92 to
22/94) and has the same ESSID and channel as the WRT.

I don't have any security enabled (yet) and no cable going to the AP.

Is it necessary to have WEP set up to get the WAP act as a repeater? I
found somewhere that WPA is not working in repeater mode?

Trogie

Tom Rogie wrote:
> Hello,
>
> My WRT54g is working perfect. I now bought a WAP54g to use in repeater
> mode but as soon as I connect the WAP54g to the power I loose all
> network...
> The WAP is in the signal range of the WRT (iwconfig gives from 8/92 to
> 22/94) and has the same ESSID and channel as the WRT.
>
> I don't have any security enabled (yet) and no cable going to the AP.
>
> Is it necessary to have WEP set up to get the WAP act as a repeater? I
> found somewhere that WPA is not working in repeater mode?
>
> Trogie
>

shit shit shit!! :-)

I found the problem: I did put the WRT network hardware address and not
the wireless hardware addres in the WAP repeater... :-)

Trogie

Tom Rogie <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>My WRT54g is working perfect. I now bought a WAP54g to use in repeater
>mode but as soon as I connect the WAP54g to the power I loose all network...
>The WAP is in the signal range of the WRT (iwconfig gives from 8/92 to
>22/94) and has the same ESSID and channel as the WRT.
>
>I don't have any security enabled (yet) and no cable going to the AP.
>
>Is it necessary to have WEP set up to get the WAP act as a repeater? I
>found somewhere that WPA is not working in repeater mode?

You need the latest firmware in both your WAP and WRT. They work fine for me
without security enabled...

>I
>>found somewhere that WPA is not working in repeater mode?
>

You are correct. In the release notes for the 2.06 for the WAP54G, it says
that WPA does not work in this version in bridge/repeater mode.

http://www.linksys.com/download/vert..._fw_ver206.txt