I emailed this message before I confirmed my subscription to the hardware hacking mail list. So I'm sending it again. (Apologies if you get a duplicate)
I posted these questions on the DD-WRT forum a week 4 days ago and no one can help, so I will ask here. I was trying to make a low cost bridge that has external antennas to help my friend whose Trendnet 4 port media bridge is not receiving a wireless signal that well. I picked up a Rosewill (Newegg) RNX-N300RT. The hardware is identical to the TP-Link TL-WR841N V?. It uses an atheros chip. I flashed it with this firmware: >ftp://dd-wrt.com/others/eko/BrainSlaye...P2/2012/ I followed the wiki Client Bridge instructions: >www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Client_Bridged to set up a bridge with my WRT-54GL as the primary router (running V24 sp2). I can get the N300 to maybe connect once after finishing the wiki instructions. After that, it does not work. I am seeing a lot of receive errors on the N300 status. HOWEVER, >www.dd-wrt.com/phpBB2/viewtopic....9#702019 describes using "CLIENT MODE" for the TP-Link TL-WR841N V7 which is the brother unit of the Rosewill, but I'm not sure if the Rosewill RNX-N300RT hardware matches the TL-WR841N V7 or V8. >www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Bridging says that Client Bridging is better than Client Mode, BUT SAYS that Client Bridge DOES NOT WORK with Atheros chips. So is this telling me why I can't get client bridging to work? And client mode should work? TO FURTHER muddy things, I read somewhere that if the host router is Broadcom based that it will not communicate well with an Atheros based client. Can anyone shed some light on Client Bridging/Client Mode with Atheros wireless routers? MORE DETAIL ON THIS ISSUE IS CONTAINED IN this DslReports post that I started: http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r27438567-DD-WRT-Client-Mode-Client-Bridge-w ith-Atheros-chips~start=8#27443841 Thank you. _______________________________________________ Hardwarehacking mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/hardwarehacking
