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Stuck on Part 4 - No Air Light
Posted: Wed Jan 13, 2010 6:25 pm
by cldela0
I am very new to this and am following the build step by step. I have OpenWRT loaded and can talk to the router through the serial connection using ZTerm. I have set both the wireless and network settings identical to the instructions. Problem is that I never get the AIR light to come on. I have been through the forum and tried many of the suggestions to no end. My best guess is that the problem has something to do with my wep key. I have a 2wire router from Windstream that has a 10 digit default wep key written on the barcode. I have tried putting that number in as well as adding 0x to the front of it and still nothing. At this point how would I set up the router if I turned off the encryption (no security)? That would help me narrow the issue down to my wep key or something else. Any help would be greatly appreciated. This looks like a great project, but I can't get the router talking.
Thanks
Chris
Re: Stuck on Part 4 - No Air Light
Posted: Wed Jan 13, 2010 11:18 pm
by mightyohm
To disable encryption, edit the file /etc/config/wireless.
Edit the "option encryption" line to set encryption to "none" and comment out the wep key, as shown below:
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config wifi-iface
option device wl0
option network wan
option mode sta
option ssid <your SSID>
option encryption none
#option key <your wep key>
Re: Stuck on Part 4 - No Air Light
Posted: Thu Jan 14, 2010 3:17 pm
by cldela0
Still no luck. Does the fact that my router assigns address 192.168.254.100-200 play a part? I thought dhcp would cover that. Really at a loss. What info can I provide to help troubleshoot the issue?
Re: Stuck on Part 4 - No Air Light
Posted: Thu Jan 14, 2010 4:53 pm
by cldela0
Here is the code for both wireless and network as well as a screen shot showing my wireless settings if they will help.
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config wifi-device w10
option type broadcom
option channel 4
# REMOVE THIS LINE TO ENABLE WIFI:
config wifi-iface
option device wl0
option network wan
option mode sta
option ssid WIN_874
option encryption wep
option key 4119627022 #this is the sample key from the manual
#### VLAN configuration
config switch eth0
option vlan0 "1 2 3 4 5*"
option vlan1 "0 5"
#### Loopback configuration
config interface loopback
option ifname "lo"
option proto static
option ipaddr 127.0.0.1
option netmask 255.0.0.0
#### LAN configuration
config interface lan
#option type bridge
option ifname "eth0.0"
option proto static
option ipaddr 192.168.1.1
option netmask 255.255.255.0
Re: Stuck on Part 4 - No Air Light
Posted: Sat Jan 16, 2010 1:39 am
by mightyohm
Try changing the key in /etc/config/wireless from 4119627022 to F58C850E. Save the file, reboot, and see if the router connects.
The IP address should be fine.
Re: Stuck on Part 4 - No Air Light
Posted: Sun Jan 17, 2010 6:26 am
by cldela0
I just stumbled on the error - a typo in the following line "config wifi-device w10". At some point I had mistakenly put a "1" in wlo instead of an "l'. I found the issue when researching the use of "iwlist wl0 scan" to test if any networks were even being picked up. Thanks for all the help.
Chris
Re: Stuck on Part 4 - No Air Light
Posted: Sun Jan 17, 2010 10:32 am
by mightyohm
Good to hear you have the problem under control now. Sorry I wasn't able to find the problem for you, I wasn't looking in the right place.
Re: Stuck on Part 4 - No Air Light
Posted: Sun Jan 17, 2010 1:30 pm
by cldela0
Thanks for giving your time to help novices! Next time a will be sure to watch out for those similar letters
Re: Stuck on Part 4 - No Air Light
Posted: Sun Jan 24, 2010 12:21 am
by richms
Watch the channel too. That had me cursing and swearing for ages about it not working.