It's not publicised anywhere that I could find when I bought them. I took a chance and it worked. Apparently it's really not uncommon...just not documented :)
It does kind of stink that it only has one cat-5 port, but I've got one linked to my router (which has ports) and the other to an 8-port GigE switch, so....it's not like they are all that essential to me. I say go for what works for you. -- William Sutton On Fri, 6 Oct 2006, Owen Berry wrote: > Thanks for mentioning that - I didn't realize the WAP's could act as > clients as well. I might actually go with that option as I wouldn't have > to add figuring out openwrt to all the things I'm learning with this > project. The downside is that it looks to be slightly more expensive, > and you only end up with 1 ethernet connection (although that's all I > need right now). > > Owen > > On Fri, 2006-10-06 at 18:16 -0400, William Sutton wrote: > > and just FWIW.... > > > > I have a pair of WAP54G's (nothing special like your WRT54G) that handle > > bridging to each other fine, so I can't imagine that the default Linksys > > firmware wouldn't handle it in case you want to go the simple route. > > > > -- > > William Sutton > > > > > > On Fri, 6 Oct 2006, Owen Berry wrote: > > > > > Great! And thanks for all the info! > > > > > > Owen > > > > > > On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 01:58:53PM -0400, Greg Brown wrote: > > > > Yes this is possible and I have done the same in a number of ways using > > > > OpenWRT. > > > > > > > > 1st and easiest way - bridge: > > > > > > > > AP #1 - primary AP, configured SSID and let's say WEP (depending on what > > > > version of WhiteRussian you install WPA may or may not work in bridge > > > > mode. > > > > I have had luck with Version5 of WhiteRussian and am using that version > > > > to > > > > power all APs I use at the beach). > > > > > > > > Anyway on the second AP once you get OpenWRT installed: > > > > > > > > set wl0_ssid= to the same ssid that you have on your primary AP > > > > set wl0_key1= to the same wep key you use on your primary AP > > > > set wl0_wep=enabled > > > > set wl0_mode=wet (wet for bridge, sta for routing, I use wet - it is > > > > easier) > > > > set lan_ipaddr= to a unique ip address on your LAN > > > > set lan_gateway= to your gateway address > > > > set lan_dns to your DNS address > > > > > > > > After all that, run 'nvram commit' to reload everything and reboot > > > > > > > > Success will be a ping that returns from OpenWRT unit while it is not > > > > plugged into anything else. > > > > > > > > If you have Macs this is a point-and-shoot affiar with Airport access > > > > points > > > > but you'll end up with less ports and you'll spend quite a bit more > > > > money. > > > > > > > > You can also use WDS mode for your openwrt box. Using WDS you'll end up > > > > with a repeater that you can attach to just like your primary AP (you'll > > > > also eat up more bandwidth this way, but who cares about that?) :) > > > > > -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
