On Sun, 27 Mar 2011 10:45:19 -0700 Michael Ewan <[email protected]> dijo:
>On 3/25/2011 7:20 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote: >> 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. >The default factory settings should work fine for unprotected WiFi >access. Is the D-Link router handing out DHCP? I'm also assuming the >D-link is acting as your NAT firewall. Where did the WRT54GL get its >IP address? First thing to check is the default route that the >WRT54GL is using (should be 192.168.0.1), you won't get anywhere >unless that is correct. Once you get traffic outbound from the WiFi >connections, then you can start locking it down. I have a WRT54G (I >think the L just means Linux compatible). The Wireless security >settings I have are: WPA Personal >TKIP >Shared key >You should also enable MAC filter >On the Administration tab, disable remote management. Thanks. I am already past these suggestions and have arrived at the point of giving up. The D-Link is a gigabit router that serves me well. Its IP address is 192.168.0.1, although the Linksys appears to see it as 192.168.0.0. Since I want to use the Linksys only as an access point I have turned off DHCP. (It's a WRT54G, not -GL as I originally thought.) In theory I should be able to connect a cable from a port on my 16-port switch or the switch plugs on the back of the D-Link router, with the other end in one of the switch ports on the Linksys. One site I found said that it might require a crossover cable and, indeed, that does work better. Setting it up with the crossover cable between the ethernet switch and the switch outlets on the Linksys makes it possible for my laptop to connect to it for administration purposes, and without using the laptop's wireless. In other words, I can connect to it via ethernet and do administrative stuff with its settings. The default IP address of the Linksys is 192.168.1.1, but the rest of the network is working with the D-Link, so I set the IP address of the Linksys to 192.168.0.103. I set it to 103 because the D-Link's range is 100-200 and my laptop is already 102. For some reason that I cannot recall, the desktop is set to 165. The problem is that when I connect the phone to it I cannot get an IP address. Since DHCP is turned off on the Linksys it should just pass the phone's request to the D-Link, but that does not happen. However, if I turn DHCP on in the Linksys, then the phone connects to it without a problem. But the phone can't go anywhere on the internet. That must be because the phone is getting its IP address from the Linksys, not from the D-Link. The D-Link is a DGL-4100. I looked through its settings and can't figure out any reason why it cannot give IP addresses through the Linksys. It certainly hands out IP addresses to my laptop and desktop computers without a problem. On the Linksys Setup tab there is a subtab labeled Advanced Routing. This tab offers a button "Show Routing Table." Clicking on it pops up a window showing Destination LAN IP as 192.168.0.0 with subnet mask of 255.255.255.0 and gateway of 0.0.0.0 for LAN and wireless. I copied these addresses into the appropriate places on the Advanced Routing tab, but the phone still does not get an IP address from the D-Link. I have spent hours getting this far. It's undoubtedly just one little thing that is set incorrectly. But since Google and I can't find it, I have given up. I'm just going to get a plain access point instead. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
