Posted: Sat Dec 27, 2008 18:38 Post subject: Site Survey and Wireless Repeating Not Working
Hi there. I have v24sp1 running on my Linksys WRT54G v1.1 and I'm having trouble setting up the wireless repeater. I have followed all the tutorials and I can get other computers to see the new SSID but I cannot connect to it. On my MAC, I try to connect but it says it timesout. Also, when I'm in DDWRT and run Site Survey, not networks come up, but on my laptop, I see a bunch of networks. Am I doing something wrong?
Joined: 13 Nov 2008 Posts: 5266 Location: CENTRAL Midnowhere
Posted: Sat Dec 27, 2008 19:10 Post subject:
Could be a SP1 issue. Or an improper hard reset. Take a look at the Peacock Thread Sticky. _________________ Warning: I'm "out of my element!"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjYJ7zZ9BRw&NR=1
"UPDATE 11/08/08 - lets try to eliminate the confusion. This is a very old thread now. Early NEWD builds were rather problematic on some of the 4712 radios and frankly the VINT ran better...however, this has changed....
Any of the newer builds - after SVN10086....run NEWD on any corerev unit of 5 and higher. This includes the WRT54Gv1.1 - V3 units.
DO NOT RUN NEWD ON V1.0 UNITS....run VINT only. If you run NEWD on a V1.0 you WILL brick it.
When in doubt (even on other make/models of early radios)....check the wl0_corerev variable in the nvram. 5 and higher...run NEWD.... - 4 and lower...run VINT.
redhawk
Just to re-emphisize the builds again so there is no confusion.
V24-VINT-final are for the older radio sets with miniPCI cards like the WRT54Gv1 and WAP54Gv1 units....if the V24 Final is used on these radios...it will most likely brick it.
Joined: 29 Dec 2008 Posts: 649 Location: Southern California
Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2008 8:51 Post subject: WRT54G v1.1 corerev = 4
Hi Shawn,
thanks for your note; I did check the corerev on my unit, which is 4--BCM4710--so, I do think I need to run the vintage version.
I must say I do like the "mini" version over standard: very quick web interface, while the "standard" one is pretty laggy, taking 3 seconds or more to update.
Compared to Tomato, which I have also tried (for some months--sort of crashy), DD-WRT/mini makes the router work faster, i.e. web pages load much faster. This is good.
Joined: 29 Dec 2008 Posts: 649 Location: Southern California
Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2008 21:47 Post subject:
Hi Shawn,
despite my fear of brickage, I took your advice and updated to:
dd-wrt.v24-10991_VINT_mini.bin
All went well, and thanks, it is great.
Router, and hence internet are way faster/"snappier" than with either stock Linksys, or with Polarcloud Tomato. (The standard WW-DRT build was a bit big and busy for this old router and was also a bit slow, so I am glad that the mini version is available and works so well.)
I switched from Tomato because of crashing/lock ups, usually after 2 or 3 weeks of uptime--not bad, but, could be better, will see how this DD-WRT build does.
Thank you (and all forum contributors) for your help.
