Any particular reason you are running DD-WRT? Did you try the stock (or latest OEM) firmware and confirm it works, or just immediately upgrade to DD-WRT?
Try rolling back to OEM and make sure it works before proceeding -- you might have a bad piece of hardware. Also, you might want to try Tomato -- its quite nice. http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Tomato_Firmware Wayne On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 1:21 PM, Vikram Chhatre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This weekend I delved in the world of wireless finally. My new Inspiron > 1525 notebook arrived and so did the Linksys WRT54GL wireless router. After > several long hours on freenode/slackware/dd-wrt channels, I managed to flash > the firmware on the router to dd-wrt Version 24 stable standard generic. > Also, the intel wireless card drive on my notebook has a driver built into > kernel, so the module iwl4965 was already probed and running. I am using > wicd as the wireless connection manager. > > The problem is, I am only rarely able to connect to the network, lets say 1 > out of 10 attempts. The client sees the network, network sees the client > card, but simply wont let in. No error messages. I have already tried > doing hard reset on the router a couple of times (30:30:30 reset). This > hasn't helped. I should mention that my wired LAN is working just fine. > Here are more details: > > Client: > --------------- > Intel 4965 Card - driver iwl4965 built into kernel 2.6.24.5 > wicd configuration and connection manager > > > Server: > --------------- > > Linksys WRT54GL v1.1 router > dd-wrt v24-stable-generic-standard Firmware > > Wireless Mode: AP > Wireless network mode: Mixed (both B and G) > Wirless ESSID: crypticlineage > Channel: 7 @ 2.442 GHz > SSID broadcast: Enabled > Sensitivity range: 2000 meters > Network configuration: Bridged > > Security mode: WPA Personal level 1 > Altorithms: TKIP+AES > WPA shared key: 63 letter hexadecimal key > Key renewal interval 3600 seconds > Authentication type: Auto > > Here is the log from /var/log/wicd/wicd.log : > http://www.pastebin.ca/1213025 > The tail part of the log obviously refers to the connection success. > > Here is the router log for IP connections. I could not make much sense out > of it, but perhaps you guys can.: http://www.pastebin.ca/1213030 > > I am at least able to login, though inconsistently, from my slack12.1 > laptop, but my roommate cannot even get the encryption key dialogue box. He > sees the network, but can't go any further than that. Also, the signal for > him is much weaker than it is for me. I typically get 92-100% signal. His > is much much weaker. He gets excellent signal for other networks in our > building. His laptop is winxp. > > I am pretty sure the problem is with some dd-wrt setting, but cannot > pinpoint it seeing how inexperienced I am with the software. Later today, I > will test my wireless card at Starbucks and at the University, but I dont > think I will have any problem there. > > Thank you so much for taking time to read through all this and for any input > you may have. > > Greetings, > Vikram > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
