On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 09:07:15AM -0500, Jon from Nova Wireless wrote:
> I've seen all of that...
> I've also investigated the solution and unfortunately I know nothing about a
> hex-editor so I can't really do what has to be done.
> essentially I understand it like this:
> each firmware has an OEMid# in it, a checksum that has to match what the
> device has programmed into it or it won't accept the firmware.
> when you converted your wap, you changed the number it expects to be the
> dlink ID.
> now you get checksum errors when you try to reload the firmware...
> that's what happened to me.
> Andrew Hakman (http://www.andrewhakman.dhs.org/wap11/) is the one who tuned
> me in that far and from there he lost me...
> Basically I understand it to be this:
> someone needs to use a hex editor to open the linksys firmware and change
> it's OEMid to be that of D-links OEMid.
> I'm betting someone has already done it, we just need to figure out who.
> 
> I actually ended up just buying new waps (sadly enough) but I've been using
> the dlink-enstein's as client bridges which works out pretty well...
> question for you: which firmware are you using and maybe give some details
> of any modifications to the original settings you have made.
> I eventually got mine to run pretty stable, but I think they are adversely
> affected by some variety of card I had connecting to my network that is now
> gone.
> further suggestion: enable mac filtering and add one client at a time and
> see if you can find the link that makes things unstable.
> good luck.
> please keep me/us posted if you learn of a real fix for this.

i think i just fixed the problem.  i had the Basic rates and TX rates set
to the highest speed, though i dont think my wireless cards support 22Mbps.
setting them to 1-2-5.5-11 seems to have fixed my problems for now.

i can now get multicast and ipv6 over my wireless and my connectivity issues
have ceased.  ill report back in a couple of days to let you know if my
problems were permanently solved.

-b


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> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "brad dreisbach" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Friday, March 21, 2003 7:54 AM
> Subject: [BAWUG] wap11/dlink problem
> 
> 
> > i installed the dlink firmware on my linksys wap11 v2.2.
> > ever since i have been having major problems. i am having
> > problems reaching wireless devices from my wired network.
> > im seeing packetloss sometimes, complete lack of connectivity
> > other times, duplicate packets.  now...on the wireless side...
> > i cant even communicate at all between wireless devices.
> > i did manage to be able to do so pings across the wireless
> > when i turned the ethernet card of the source machine into
> > promiscuous mode(running tcpdump).  has anyone else seen
> > this problem?   ive also not been able to use ipv6 or multicast
> > over  the wireless.  is there an easy way to revert back to
> > the linksys firmware?  i dont have another linksys or any of the
> > linksys images.
> >
> > -b
> >
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