Hi folks, I just set up my router with OpenWrt White Russian yesterday and I'm having trouble getting my wireless running.  I have the wired ethernet working fine, and can connect to the WAN over the wire.  But wireless is not working so well.  One of the previous firmwares I had tried on this router was Tomato, which I had wireless working on.  It looks like many of the settings got carried over into this setup.  I am trying to use WPA1 / TKIP.

On my laptop(the wireless client), I can see my ESSID being broadcast, and I am able to "connect" to it via Ubuntu's GUI NetworkManager Applet.  It shows the signal strength bars that I usually only see when I am properly connected, however I am unable to ping the router or anything else.

I noticed in the X-wrt Interface Status, it says "Encryption Key off" even though the Wireless settings(WPA, TKIP, password, etc.) look like they are set properly.

Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks

I'm thinking this might have something to do with my dhcp not being confirgured correctly on the wireless interface.
In x-wrt under Network -> DHCP, it shows a table like this

Name    Interface Interfaces          Action
lan     br0       eth0 eth3 eth4 eth2 Modify
wan     eth1      eth1                Modify
wifi                                  Modify

Where the "Interface" and "Interfaces" columns are blank for wifi.  When I click modify nothing happens.

I have the exact same problem! Did you find a solution?

I have the WRT54G v2.2 though.
For me it's a definetively DHCP problem. Setting the IP address to static get me connected!
So... Howto enable DHCP for both lan and wifi?! Any hints?

/Per

(Last edited by pastrand on 3 Nov 2007, 21:02)

Actually, on the WRTSL54GS, eth2 is your wireless network interface (see http://wiki.openwrt.org/OpenWrtDocs/Har … WRTSL54GS) so your DHCP settings are probably correct. 

I had a few problems both of my WRTSL54GS units after I flashed them.  First, try using the web-interface to turn off all encryption and then shut off the radio.  Then, turn the radio back on and try to connect.  If it works without any encryption, you don't have a DHCP problem.  Then, turn encryption back on and try to connect again.

Oh, you might also check to see if you have any MAC-address blocking enabled.

I never solved the issues I had with White Russion, but was able to get Kamikaze 7.09 BRCM 2.4 to work without much difficulty.

Two things happened tonight:
Good thing: I got it working!
Bad thing: Not really sure what I did!!!
I cleared some nvram variables related to wifi_dhcp, but it might as well have been a reboot of Gutsy that cleared some stuff on my laptop...

Anyhow, DHCP is working... Now I'll start fiddling with something else instead! ;-)