-------------- Original message ---------------------- From: Glenn Holmer <gholmer@ameritech.net>
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.
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I picked up one of these recently, I got lucky and got an old stock version. I was reading up on these prior to buying (considering the openwrt, version) and found out that version 5 has problems. with staying connected. It has some new checkbox for one that seems to be giving problems. It also doesn't run Linux. Might check out dslreports or I even found one persons answer at Amazon, in their review.