Hello,

I am trying to add WPA authentication to my wireless network. I am currently running a network like this below with WDS and no authentication and its working great. All the devices in my network are wrt54gl running kamikaze 7.09.  Here is my network...

                 |-----------------<wireless clients>
                 |
<main wireless router 1>-----------------wds----------------<wireless ap 2> --------<wireless clients>
         |               |
         |               |--------------------wds----------------------<wireless ap 3>--------<wireless clients>
         |
         |-------------------------wds-------------------------------<wireless ap 4>-------<wireless clients>

I try and add these lines of code to my wireless configuration files on all devices under the ap config's and wds config's.

option encryption psk
option key           <mywirelesskey>

And the wds links becomes very unstable, if I reboot one of the ap's, sometimes it comes up, and sometimes it doesnt.

Any ideas would be great?? I found a link to some script edits, but I figured they would have been fixed in 7.09, here is that link to the updates. http://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?id=11472

please help..

thanks, michael

Check out the script, they weren't. I've responded to about a half dozen posts when people ask why it's not working.

/etc/hotplug.d/net/20-broadcom_wds

Thanks so much for the quick reply.       

Is this true also for doing WDS with WEP enccyptionon???