hi,

the WDS i deployed a while ago didn't run very stable so i decided to upgrade the repeater to kamikaze. unfortunately i can't get it to run with WPA. without encryption it works just fine. could somebody please give some advice or point me into the solution's direction. thanks a lot!

there are 2 wrtt54gl involved, one as main router and the other as repeater. the router runs on firmware from linksys (4.30.7), the repeater on kamikaze 7.09. repeater's config follows: (as i said it's working without encryption so the difference between the working (unencrypted) version and the not working (WPA) version are indeed only the starred lines)

/etc/config/wireless:
config wifi-device  wl0
    option type     broadcom
    option channel  6
    option disabled 0

config wifi-iface
    option device wl0
    option network lan
    option mode ap
    option ssid testo4
    option hidden 0
*    option encryption psk
*    option key    "mykey"

config wifi-iface
    option device   wl0
    option network    lan
    option mode     wds
    option ssid     testo4
    option bssid    00:18:f8:router
*    option encryption psk
*    option key    "mykey"

the nas call from wifi:
/usr/sbin/nas -P /var/run/nas.wl0.pid -H 34954 -l br-lan -i wl0 -A -m 4 -w 2 -s testo4 -g 3600 -k mykey

root@OpenWrt:~# wlc wsec
2
root@OpenWrt:~# iwconfig
lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.

eth0.0    no wireless extensions.

eth0.1    no wireless extensions.

br-lan    no wireless extensions.

wl0       IEEE 802.11-DS  ESSID:"testo4" 
          Mode:Master  Frequency:2.437 GHz  Access Point: 00:1A:70:63:1C:ED   
          Tx-Power:19 dBm   
          RTS thr:2347 B   Fragment thr:2346 B   
          Encryption key:off
          Link Noise level:-94 dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:280  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

wds0.1    no wireless extensions.

root@OpenWrt:~# wlc wsec
2
root@OpenWrt:~# wlc wpa_auth
4

i find it strange that iwconfig obviously doesn't see the settings (since there's) WPA enabled, but read in another post
(http://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?pid=31430) that that was kind of usual behaviour.

anybody got a hint for me? thanks a lot!

Have you checked out this post:

http://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?id=11472

It appears there are some edits you need to do to the 20-broadcom.sh script.

Hope that helps a bit.

/etc/hotplug.d/net/20-broadcom_wds to be exact

thanks. i already had applied your changes before i was posting and it didn't work. i added 'option hidden 0' to /etc/config/wireless and restarted the router (with the linksys firmware) a couple of times and then got a connection between the two, meaning i could ping from the repeater to the router and to hosts on the internet. same for a computer that was connected via cable to the repeater. i thought the WDS should be working now and tested with a laptop trying to connect to the network wirelessly, but had unfortunately no success. any idea anybody?