Kurt, Thank you. Apologies aren't necessary. I'm grateful for any help.
Per the dslreports forum post, the current thoughts are to maybe to try making a repeater instead, or get my friend to buy a set of Ethernet over house wiring adapters. Phil -----Original Message----- From: Kurt Keville [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, August 20, 2012 8:47 PM To: Phil C. Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [HH] Resend: DD-WRT 'Client Mode' 'Client Bridge' with Atheros chips I will ping some folks I know over at the OpenFenway project (http://www.openairboston.com/fenway). It seems to me they went through this exact problem once back in the day. Their distro (OpenWRT / Open-Mesh) has common roots with DD-WRT and the drivers for their usually Atheros chipsets was nominally madwifi or madwifi-ng if memory serves. Broadcom chipsets use a different driver (HostAP maybe?) so it wouldn't surprise me if their implementation of client mode differs. Apologies for the walk down memory lane... On Aug 20, 2012, at 5:38 PM, Phil C. wrote: > 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-Br > idge-w > ith-Atheros-chips~start=8#27443841 > > Thank you. > > > _______________________________________________ > Hardwarehacking mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/hardwarehacking _______________________________________________ Hardwarehacking mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/hardwarehacking
