hi

i'm using a whiterussion RC2 on a WRT54GS v1.1 and expand the WLAN with a WRE54G ver1 (without ethernet port) which is acually working perfectly.

linksys "upgraded"(?) their products and currently ship WRE54G ver.2 with an integrated fast ethernet port. i don't get them working: they do not expand my wlan instead they drop all packets from the notebooks which are connected to them.

i noticed that openwrt loaded a special interface (i forgot the name but it was no eth*, vlan* or br* device) with the old extenders. the new extenders (ver2) did not force openwrt to load this interface.

btw: the ip address of the extenders are very tough. i tried to change them to 192.168.192.240/24 via the web interface but only one of the three devices really changed to the new address... strange.

i tried all combinations of WRT54GS running both whiterussian RC2 and whiterussian RC3 with
WRE54G ver2 firmware 2.0.1.12 and  and the initially installed firmware 2.02.05

another strange thing: the extenders come with a firmware: v2.02.05 and on the linksys.com website is only v2.0.1.12 for download available (which is less than the one installed)

i would be happy for any hint .. thanx!

sorry. the thread topic should not be WRE54GS but instead WRE54G

I change the title right now. BTW afaik the v2 is marvell based, so it's not supported.

thanx.

i dont want to install openwrt on it - so it does not have to be "supported"

instead i want to use the original firmware from linksys in order to extend a openwrt based wrt54gs wlan.

Then maybe try http://linksysinfo.org , but I doubt they can help. Linksys is famous to make hardware revisions incompatible

does openwrt has to support such range expanders like the wrt54g? is any software-pice responsible for handling the wre?

The WRE54G v1 could use openwrt as it's firmware, but noone tried it. And without serial console (due to the lack of ethernet) i won't try to flash it, if I were You.
The "range expanding" is basically nothing more then WET mode imho.

thanx 4 your quick resonse. what i wanted to know is, if the WRT needs some code or piece of software to "understand" the WRE. i think with WRE v1 the WRT opened up an interface to talk to the WRE but i dont know if its 1) correct and 2) nessecary.

IMHO (I'm not sure)
1) wrong, the WRE simple joines as a wireless bridge 2) check 1)

hmm. so i got confused.

wrt54gs v4 with original linksys firmware + wre54g ver2 works
wrt54gs v1.1 with openwrt rc3 + wre54g ver2 does not work

so if the wre does not influence the wrt, it might be that the extenders work with
wrt54gs v4 with openwrt rc3 + wre54g ver2 ??

I just know, what should it do hardware and software wise, no idea, how Linksys implemented their auto-setup craps