I have two routers, both running OpenWRT 10.04
The first is a WRT160NL router connected to my ISP. I am using it as an access point with the ESSID of "160AP". It's WEP password is "AAAAA" and it's broadcasting on on channel 5.
My purpose: extend the range of this first router with another router. My other router is an Asus WL500GPv2.
Documentation for bridging is on the OpenWRT wiki here.
Following Step 1 I edited /etc/config/wireless
to look like this:
config 'wifi-device' 'wl0'
option 'type' 'broadcom'
option 'channel' '5'
option 'disabled' '0'
config 'wifi-iface'
option 'device' 'wl0'
option 'network' 'lan'
option 'ssid' '160AP'
option 'mode' 'sta'
option 'encryption' 'wep'
option 'key' 'AAAAA'
Now I am trying to run the wifi command:
root@OpenWrt:~# wifi
Command 'set wepkey' failed: -1
root@OpenWrt:~#
What am I missing? The 5 character password for the WEP is good. The SSID and channel of the WRT160NL is good too.
If try to continue: (XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX is the MAC of the WT160NL wlan0):
root@OpenWrt:~# iwconfig wl0
wl0 IEEE 802.11-DS ESSID:"160AP"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.432 GHz Access Point: XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX
Bit Rate=54 Mb/s Tx-Power:32 dBm
RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality=5/5 Signal level=-52 dBm Noise level=-92 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:7 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
So does this mean that the "Command 'set wepkey' failed: -1" message was just a warning, and it actually connected?
So I continued as follows:
Editing /etc/config/network
:
#### LAN configuration
config interface lan
option type bridge
option ifname "eth0.0"
option proto static
option ipaddr 192.168.1.2
option netmask 255.255.255.0
Disabled the firewall:
$ /etc/init.d/firewall stop
$ /etc/init.d/firewall disable
Edit /etc/config/dhcp
config dhcp lan
option interface lan
option start 100
option limit 150
option leasetime 12h
option ignore 1
Restarting DNS services:
$ /etc/init.d/dnsmasq restart
Then I rebooted the router and scaned the available wireless networks from my notebook. But here comes the fun part (At this point I've been trying to solve this for about ~2 hours now, so yes, very funny):
I can Only see the "160AP" Access Point which is the original WT160NL router. (I think this because the signal strength is the same… my notebook is next to the WL500GPv2).
What is the problem with my setup? What am I missing?
Best Answer
The user fyi on the OpenWRT forum suggested that using WEP is a bad idea for bridges and that using WDS instead could fix this. Did you try that?
In reviewing your configs and comaring them to the tutorial you linked, it looks like you might be missing a whole section. In
/etc/config/wireless
you need two sections titledconfig 'wifi-iface'
. Both of them are for the same device but one will haveoption 'mode' 'ap'
and the otheroption 'mode' 'sta'
. It looks like you only have the 'sta' one on your configs. Can you post a full config file dump from both units?