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Topic: WRT54GS V2 Wlan client problems

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Hi,

I'm new to openwrt, used dd-wrt before. I wanted to use my WRT as client in a WPA2-Enterprise environment, that does not work with dd-wrt, so I set up openwrt.

I followed the "basic setup" instructions, and everything worked right. Then I wanted to configure the wifi to be "client" and followed the tutorial at OpenWRT Client - and now I am stuck.

As I am new to linux, I cannot figure out what my error messages mean... I hope I correctly understood what the commands do (help UCI gives no result...) :

root@OpenWrt:~# uci del wireless.@wifi-device[0].disabled <- Enables WiFi by removeing disabled in /etc/config/wireless
root@OpenWrt:~# uci set wireless.@wifi-iface[0].mode=sta <- Sets the WiFi mode to sta in /etc/config/wireless
root@OpenWrt:~# uci commit wireless <- commits the changes in /etc/config/wireless
root@OpenWrt:~# wifi <- brings up wireless


This is my /etc/config/wireless

config 'wifi-device' 'radio0'
        option 'type' 'mac80211'
        option 'channel' '11'
        option 'macaddr' '00:13:10:46:f4:79'
        option 'hwmode' '11g'

config 'wifi-iface'
        option 'device' 'radio0'
        option 'network' 'lan'
        option 'ssid' 'OpenWrt'
        option 'encryption' 'none'
        option 'mode' 'sta'

but wifi reports some errors, and I don't know why...


root@OpenWrt:/# wifi
Error for wireless request "Set Power Management" (8B2C) :
    SET failed on device wlan0 ; Operation not supported.
brctl: bridge br-lan: Operation not supported
brctl: bridge br-lan: File exists
brctl: bridge br-lan: Operation not supported

please, could someone help me with this? right now, I'm stuck and have no Idea what to do...

Same here, WRT54G out of the box, basic wireless config - but the moment i switch to mode sta i get:

root@OpenWrt:~# wifi
Error for wireless request "Set Power Management" (8B2C) :
    SET failed on device wlan0 ; Operation not supported.

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