My home is all ethernet, so I have never bothered with wireless devices. However, I now desire to set up a recently acquired Linksys WRT54GL so that only my laptop and phone can connect. The laptop normally sits in its mini-dock where it is connected via ethernet, but I want it to connect to wireless in case I want to take it to another part of the house. The phone and my laptop are my only wireless devices.
I started by doing a factory reset, since I acquired it used. Then I set it up with a cable to the input port on the WRT54GL to my D-Link router, which is 192.168.0.1. Then I connected a cable from one of the other four ports on the WRT54GL to my 16-port switch that connects to the wall outlets in the house. Nice flashy lights all around. From my Fedora laptop Firefox brings up the web administration page at http://192.168.1.1. My laptop and my phone both see it as well (as "linksys"), and can connect, although the phone can't go anywhere at all and the laptop can't go anywhere if I disconnect the ethernet. There are a zillion settings on the web administration pages, and I don't understand most of them. I have the MAC address of the phone, and I suppose ifconfig will give me similar information for the laptop. I'd like to set it up so that the WRT54GL will give automatic permission to just the phone and the laptop, and perhaps password authentication if I want to let someone else into it temporarily. I have spent an hour fiddling with the web administration pages, but can't get it working. I need help from someone familiar with the settings for a WRT54GL router. Anyone willing to help a dummy? _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
