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No internet connection
Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2011 2:03 pm
by Muffinman
Hi Guys,
I'm from Germany and new in this forum. I love the Wifi Radio Project and i would like to create my own radio. I bought the asus wl520gu and i tried to flash and config openwrt on the router. I tried the tutorial from tinkernut (
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bp26xFBw ... r_embedded), but it won't work. I get no internet connection when i try to update opkg.
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config wifi-device wl0
option type broadcom
option channel 9
# REMOVE THIS LINE TO ENABLE WIFI:
config wifi-iface
option device wl0
option network wlan
option mode sta
option ssid MySSID
option encryption psk2
option key MyKey
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#### 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 192.168.1.10
option netmask 255.255.255.0
option gateway 192.168.1.2
option dns 8.8.8.8
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root@OpenWrt:~# opkg update
Downloading http://mightyohm.com/files/kamikaze-2.4/packages/mipsel/Packages.gz
wget: bad address 'mightyohm.com'
Signiture check for snapshots skipped because GPG support was not enabled in this build
Collected errors:
* opkg_download: ERROR: Command failed with return value 1: `wget --passive-ftp -P /tmp/opkg-JPeQJf http://mightyohm.com/files/kamikaze-2.4/packages/mipsel/Packages.gz'
Can you help me?
Greets John
Re: No internet connection
Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2011 4:50 am
by jeroen94704
In the wifi config file, you need to change the "MySSID" and "MyKey" (and maybe the "encryption") settings to match your local network setup.
Jeroen
Re: No internet connection
Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2011 5:24 am
by Muffinman
Yes i know....i removed them for this post.
The SSID is WLan - Hauss , the Key is supermann and The encryption is WPA2 CCMP.
Re: No internet connection
Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2011 6:59 am
by jeroen94704
Whoops, sorry, I jumped to conclusions
Looking further, you place the wl0 device in the "wlan" network, but there is no definition for "wlan" in /etc/config/network. You need to add something about wlan there, such as (in my case):
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config 'interface' 'wlan'
option 'proto' 'dhcp'
option 'type' 'bridge'
option 'ifname' 'wl0'
option 'defaultroute' '0'
option 'peerdns' '0'
Re: No internet connection
Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2011 7:13 am
by Muffinman
Okay i edited the vi /etc/config/network, but i get no connection.
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root@OpenWrt:~# vi /etc/config/network
#### 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 192.168.1.10
option netmask 255.255.255.0
option gateway 192.168.1.2
option dns 8.8.8.8
#### WAN configuration
config interface wan
option ifname "eth0.1"
option proto dhcp
#### WLAN configuration
config interface wlan
option proto dhcp
option type bridge
option ifname wl0
option defaultroute 0
option peerdns 0
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root@OpenWrt:~# vi /etc/config/wireless
config wifi-device wl0
option type broadcom
option channel 9
# REMOVE THIS LINE TO ENABLE WIFI:
config wifi-iface
option device wl0
option network wlan
option mode sta
option ssid WLan - Hauss
option encryption psk2
option key supermann
Re: No internet connection
Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2011 7:50 am
by jeroen94704
Your /etc/config/wireless looks ok, although you could try wrapping your SSID in single quotes.
Here's my complete /etc/config/network, which helped someone else on this forum before:
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config 'switch' 'eth0'
config 'interface' 'loopback'
option 'ifname' 'lo'
option 'proto' 'static'
option 'ipaddr' '127.0.0.1'
option 'netmask' '255.0.0.0'
config 'interface' 'lan'
option 'type' 'bridge'
option 'ifname' 'eth0.0'
option 'proto' 'dhcp'
config 'interface' 'wan'
option 'ifname' 'eth0.1'
option 'proto' 'dhcp'
config 'interface' 'wlan'
option 'proto' 'dhcp'
option 'type' 'bridge'
option 'ifname' 'wl0'
option 'defaultroute' '0'
option 'peerdns' '0'
config 'switch_vlan' 'eth0_0'
option 'device' 'eth0'
option 'vlan' '0'
option 'ports' '1 2 3 4 5'
config 'switch_vlan' 'eth0_1'
option 'device' 'eth0'
option 'vlan' '1'
option 'ports' '0 5'
Re: No internet connection
Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2011 7:54 am
by Muffinman
Thanks, do you use the router as the Wifi Radio from Jeff or as the Radio from tinkernut?
Re: No internet connection
Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2011 8:01 am
by jeroen94704
Neither. I simply installed the Backfire release of OpenWrt and configured the whole thing myself. But I do use it in the same way as a music player which plays music from the local network or from an internet stream.
Jeroen
Re: No internet connection
Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2011 8:07 am
by Muffinman
Okay. I used the openwrt-brcm-2.4-squashf.trx from
http://mightyohm.com/files/kamikaze-2.4 ... uashfs.trx
I can't find the problem. Maybe my repeater is a problem or should i connect the wl520gu directly to my router?
Re: No internet connection
Posted: Sat Mar 05, 2011 11:04 am
by mightyohm
WPA2-CCMP might be the problem. Can you change your wireless network to WPA2-AES instead?
I have had problems getting OpenWRT to connect to certain WPA/WPA2 configurations. WEP pretty much always works. I use WPA2-AES here and it seems to work ok, but I had to put single quotes around my network key because it has some special (non-alphanumeric) characters in it.
And I think you need to enclose your SSID in single quotes ie. 'My SSID has spaces' or change your SSID to something easier (no spaces or special characters).