NEVERMIND. It appears that once again, I've fixed it by talking it out to an empty forum thread.
This is my home network setup, rather what I would like it to be...
[Internet] ===> [Cable Modem] ===> [WRTSL54GS] ===> (((Wireless))) ===> [WRT54G] ===> Wired Clients (downstairs)
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Wired Clients (upstairs)
When I was using White Russian it was working with WDS most of the time, excepting the occasional reboot. Everything was perfect.
Then one day I screwed up the VLAN settings on my router and said "Oops! Time to switch to Kamikaze." So, for the most part I'm impressed until I attempted to get my WDS working again.
I upgraded to Kamikaze 7.09 with the 2.4 kernel for my two devices, respectively.
I've made the changes to the /etc/hotplug.d/net/20-broadcom_wds that have been suggested all over the forums. I've read just about every thread on it as well.
I've gotten it to work just fine with no encryption on either the access points or the wds link. If I add encryption to either then the whole thing stops working. I'd be happy to get PSK / WPA working and I'd go about my life. What I'd really like is PSK+PSK2 on the access points and PSK2 or PSK on the WDS link.
I've not included my network configurations here because I know they work fine. I'm including the files with encryption turned on, the way I would be minimally happy with. Network names / passphrases have been changed to protect the innocent. Just so you know, all the passphrases are the same, but I've tried using different ones for network and wds before as well with no result.
WRTSL54GS : 47.0.0.1 : 00:10:18:90:XX:XX
/etc/config/wireless
config wifi-device wl0
option type broadcom
option channel '9'
option maxassoc '20'
option disabled '0'
config wifi-iface
option device wl0
option network lan
option mode ap
option ssid network
option encryption psk
option key 'passphrase'
config wifi-iface
option device wl0
option network lan
option mode wds
option ssid wds
option bssid 00:13:10:85:XX:XX
option encryption psk
option key 'passphrase'output of "ps | grep nas" (passphrase redacted)
/usr/sbin/nas -P /var/run/nas.wl0.pid -H 34954 -l br-lan -i wl0 -A -m 4 -w 2 -s network -g 3600 -k passphraseoutput of "wl -i wds0.1 wds_wpa_role"
Local endpoint's WPA role: supplicantpartial output of "iwlist scanning"
wl0 Scan completed :
Cell 01 - Address: 00:13:10:85:XX:XX
ESSID:"network"
Mode:Master
Channel:9
Quality:0/0 Signal level:-41 dBm Noise level:-99 dBm
Encryption key:on
Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s
24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s
12 Mb/s; 48 Mb/sWRTSL54GS : 47.0.0.2 : 00:13:10:85:XX:XX
/etc/config/wireless
config wifi-device wl0
option type broadcom
option channel 9
option disabled '0'
config wifi-iface
option device wl0
option network lan
option mode ap
option ssid network
option encryption psk2
option key 'passphrase'
config wifi-iface
option device wl0
option network lan
option mode wds
option ssid wds
option bssid 00:10:18:90:XX:XX
option encryption psk
option key 'passphrase'output of "ps | grep nas" (passphrase redacted)
/usr/sbin/nas -P /var/run/nas.wl0.pid -H 34954 -l br-lan -i wl0 -A -m 4 -w 2 -s network -g 3600 -k passphraseoutput of "wl -i wds0.1 wds_wpa_role"
Local endpoint's WPA role: authenticatorpartial output of "iwlist scanning"
wl0 Scan completed :
Cell 01 - Address: 00:10:18:90:XX:XX
ESSID:"network"
Mode:Master
Channel:9
Quality:0/0 Signal level:-43 dBm Noise level:-95 dBm
Encryption key:on
Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s
24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s
12 Mb/s; 48 Mb/sOther Files
/etc/hotplug.d/net/20-broadcom_wds
include /lib/wifi
setup_broadcom_wds() {
local iface="$1"
local remote="$(wlc ifname "$iface" wdsmac)"
[ -z "$remote" ] && return
config_cb() {
[ -z "$CONFIG_SECTION" ] && return
config_get type "$CONFIG_SECTION" TYPE
[ "$type" = "wifi-iface" ] || return
config_get network "$CONFIG_SECTION" network
[ -z "$network" ] && return
config_get addr "$CONFIG_SECTION" bssid
addr=$(echo "$addr" | tr 'A-F' 'a-f')
[ "$addr" = "$remote" ] && {
local cfg="$CONFIG_SECTION"
include /lib/network
scan_interfaces
setup_interface "$iface" "$network"
config_get encryption "$cfg" encryption
config_get key "$cfg" key
config_get ssid "$cfg" ssid
sleep 10
case "$encryption" in
psk|PSK)
nas4not "$network" "$iface" up auto tkip psk "$key" "$ssid"
;;
psk2|PSK2)
nas4not "$network" "$iface" up auto aes psk "$key" "$ssid"
;;
psk+psk2|psk2+psk|PSK+PSK2|PSK2+PSK)
nas4not "$network" "$iface" up auto aes+tkip psk "$key" "$ssid"
;;
*)
;;
esac
}
}
config_load wireless
}
case "$ACTION" in
add|ADD|register|REGISTER)
[ "${INTERFACE%%0.*}" = wds ] && setup_broadcom_wds "$INTERFACE"
;;
esacBREAKING INFORMATION:
Whenever I cycle one router with "wifi down;wifi up" the other router puts out "wl0: Invalid argument". I have no idea what that means.
At this point I'm not sure what other information would be helpful but this is all of it, and it still isn't working. Please let me know if there are any other tests I can run or anything that could help shed more light on the situation.
-Angry 
(I'm not really mad, just frustrated that I can't get this thing working to its full potential. Its an awesome combination of hardware / software.)
(Edit 01 : "cat /etc/hotplug.d/net/20-broadcom_wds" clipped the edges, so I did it again)
(Edit 02 : Edit 01 was an error. The file really was clipped on my WRT54G, added the error I get now.)
(Edit 03 : Oh... it seems to be working now.)
(Edit 04 : Yea, once I used the right "/etc/hotplug.d/net/20-broadcom_wds" it works fine. And once I waited patiently)
(Last edited by AngryUndead on 9 May 2008, 21:01)
