On Sat, 2005-12-17 at 10:33 -0600, Glenn Holmer wrote:
Just got a Linksys WRT54G and putting it through its paces. PPPoE and switch components work great, but I'm having trouble with wireless. I had been using a 3Com access point, which my ThinkPad and Zaurus could both see without issues, but neither can see the WRT54G. On the ThinkPad, the output of iwconfig shows zeros for the WRT54G's MAC address (i.e. it didn't associate), although kinternet's "wireless connection" dialog and "iwlist scan" show it by ESSID with the correct MAC address. Neither the ThinkPad nor the Zaurus have the access point's MAC address specified. (I normally use 64-bit WEP, but also tried with no encryption.)
What might I have done wrong? I've spent hours twiddling bits on the WRT54G. It's a version 5, and I upgraded to the latest firmware (for that version, it's 1.00.4). The ThinkPad is running SUSE 10.0 and using ipw2100 driver.
Since neither can see the new AP, it seems likely the problem concerns that rather than SUSE. You'll likely get much better advice in places like: http://www.wrt54g.net/ http://www.linksysinfo.org/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=6 You'll perhaps do even better if you google for your symptoms. HTH, Dave