[ale] WRT54G2 wifi router troubles

[Richard Faulkner]

Hi Charles --

Been falling behind in this interesting thread but finally got caught-up
this AM.  

Yes.  You did the right thing.  (And YES a very interesting point in how
her machine finally connected).

Your resolution has my curiosity for future reference as well.

Was her wireless card enabled when she was trying to connect originally?
Was she broadcasting her SSID?  What is the OS?  If Windows was it
up-to-date (service pack)?  That's kinda the order that I would start
in...

I had a local shop that I do contract work for present me with an Acer
netbook that was claimed as not being able to connect to the user's WAP.
The OS was 9.10 and they (the shop and user) were not familiar with it.
I took a "look" and it connected straight away for me.  No issues.  I'm
no genius but in this case had more to do with knowing the clicks to get
the job done.  In this case, nothing was broken...and I'd guess that the
gal (in my case) was not broadcasting her SSID and didn't know what it
was in the first place.  (Trying to connect to the wrong network or
something?)  As far as I can tell the issue in my case was good ole'
user error.  

Your case sounded more of a s/w related issue in the laptop
understanding "who" it was suppose to talk to.  That or the wireless IF
was not enabled when all of this started?  Dunno.  Once you did get an
open connection to the WAP it became aware of it and remembered the
connection (assuming that you manually input the SSID).  iPod's Touch
(my eldest son has one) seem to work this way when connecting to
non-broadcast SSID's.  Connect once and they will "remember" the SSID
for one more connection.  After that you have to manually key them in
again.

But then, if you're already weary of this one please let it do a fly-by.
I'm with you...an interesting resolution.    ---R

PS>  Are you going to Linuxfest again on the 24th?  


-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Trausch <mike at trausch.us>
Reply-to: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux! <ale at ale.org>
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux! <ale at ale.org>
Subject: Re: [ale] WRT54G2 wifi router troubles
Date: Thu, 08 Apr 2010 23:13:11 -0400


On Thu, 2010-04-08 at 18:45 -0400, Brian Pitts wrote:
> I'm in favor of the "pass-through mode" recommendation, but only if
> the
> equipment in maintained by a technically savvy user. In this
> situation,
> I agree with Jim's comment above. Still, I doubt the list would have
> dumped on the suggestion so hard if the source hadn't been identified
> as
> an MCSE. 

I don't know about that.  It is one of those things that you don't do
unless you need to.  That is, "if it ain't broke, don't fix it".  Of
course, non-end-to-end connectivity is what I would consider broken, but
it's not really fixable for most people until IPv6 is rolled out.  I
imagine that there will be a decent reduction in 'net traffic since a
lot of NAT traversal mechanisms will no longer be necessary then.  Of
course, that also means that there will be a fair lot of services that
will also no longer be needed on the 'net, since their sole purpose in
life is to get around NATs.

	--- Mike

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