Help with wireless

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Post by thechief » Fri Jul 14, 2006 10:26 pm

Perhaps we should look at this another way. Is the DHCP server actually enabled in the RT firmware? It should be by default, but it is worth checking ("Setup->Lan configuration->Configure").

Also, try logging in to the router (via telnet, and have a poke around to see what is going on). The RT firmware has a lot of tools that you can use to peek around (e.g., "top", "traceroute", ifconfig, etc).
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Post by eccles » Fri Jul 14, 2006 11:08 pm

ok, I'm not sure what I'm looking for tho.

DHCP is enabled. But I don't think that's the route of the problem, when I gave it a static IP, it still weren't happy."network not availible" or something if I remember correctly.

/proc/net/wireless has no values under the headers.

Loads exist in ifconfig including wlan0.

in /proc/wlan/privacy/wepkeys:
key value: 0x%hX 0x%hX 0x%hX 0x%hX 0x%hX 0x%hX 0x%hX 0x%hX 0x%hX 0x%hX 0x%hX 0x%hX 0x%hX
Although I expect that's for security or something.

Apart from that, I'd need pointers what I'm looking for.
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Post by thechief » Sat Jul 15, 2006 8:05 am

We are scratching like chooks here (basically doing the work of a debugger). With these Linux-based firmwares, anything could be the problem (we've already seen the problems caused by IPv6 on client PCs).

What's the output of these commands:

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cat /proc/modules
cat /proc/interrupts
cat /var/tmp/udhcpd.conf
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Post by eccles » Sat Jul 15, 2006 10:05 pm

thechief wrote:

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cat /proc/modules
tiap 708536 1
tiatm 140584 1
avalanche_usb 63296 1
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cat /proc/interrupts
7: 8250514 R4000 timer/counter [MIPS interrupt]
8: 0 unified secondary [hw0 (Avalanche Primary)]
15: 252 serial [hw0 (Avalanche Primary)]
23: 64144 + SAR [hw0 (Avalanche Primary)]
29: 457672 vlynq0 [hw0 (Avalanche Primary)]
32: 1 + USB [hw0 (Avalanche Primary)]
41: 19682 + Cpmac Driver [hw0 (Avalanche Primary)]
47: 156 + DSL [hw0 (Avalanche Primary)]
80: 457670 TNETW1130 [hw0 (Low Vlynq)]
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cat /var/tmp/udhcpd.conf
start 192.168.1.2
end 192.168.1.254
inflease_time 604800
interface br0
opt router 192.168.1.1
opt dns 192.168.1.1
opt subnet 255.255.255.0
opt lease 3600
conflict_time 3600
lease_file /var/tmp/landhcps0.leases


If nothing springs to mind, then don't worry.
Disableling IPv6 is causing problems occasionally on startup, and MSN isn't working (another problem somewhere, dns related somehow I expect).
So I'll send it back and get a new one. D-Link, Belkin or Netgear I expect. Had enough hassels with this one. Thank you for your help.
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Post by thechief » Sun Jul 16, 2006 12:10 am

All the settings are correct, and so it should all be working. It is all weird. If you will buy another router, I would advise to avoid the AR7* chipset platform. Their firmwares are virtually all based on the same kernel and TI web interface. I would be surprised if you didn't have problems with the others also. You may well want to try another chipset.
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