Hi!

Bought a WRT54GL this weekend and tried differnet firmwares (DD-WRT and OpenWRT)
With OpenWRT everything worked just fine execpt fpor the WLAN.
My laptop (IBM Thinkpad with WinXP) discover the WLAN but canät connect properly, ut just hangs on Waiting for the network, the same thing with my UTStarCom f1000 SIP-Wifi-phone, it can't connect either.
I've tried both with WPA-PSK and withot any encryption but the problem continues.

With DD-wrt and with Linksys original the WLAN work fine so there har no hardware releted problems.

Any suggestions?

Three things...

1). It should have worked with no encryption but assuming you want at least WPA1 support, install the NAS package.  See: http://wiki.openwrt.org/OpenWrtDocs/Con … 4840eb7144

2). I ran into this one - if your key contains several non-alpha/numeric characters (single quote ' is one) is won't set the NVRAM variable correctly from either GUI(web) or nvram set commands.  No biggy for me, I limited to alpha/numeric, but someday I'll need it.  I'm sure there's a method to set any character in NVRAM, though (anyone?).

The PSK is in the variable wl0_wpa_psk.

3). There's a huge number of unneeded NVRAM variables, especially when coming from DD-WRT.  I suggest: http://wiki.openwrt.org/Faq#head-71cacf … 3ded5beb9c

Hope this helps.

(Last edited by Bill_MI on 20 Mar 2006, 18:39)

After lots of work I finally got it to work with my laptop but not with the WiFi-phone.

I totally missed the fact that NAS had to be installed to get WPA-PSK to function, I thought that is was only necessary if I wanted radius and stuff.

The reason why I couldn't connect to it without encryption was probably WinXP-related, if I change encryption method of an AP I have to remove that AP from Prefered networks.

The F1000 WiFi-phone was only tested with WPA-PSK activated, it still doesn't work with WPA-PSK so the work continues on this one...

One strange thing happend, suddenly my network started to appear like a AdHoc-network, not AP-network. If I startet OpenWRT in failsafe-mode it was an AP but not in normal mode. The only solution I found was to do a firstboot and recreate the jffs-partion.

Thanks a lot for your help!