Linksys WAP54g and WEP

donald

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I recently purchased a Linksys WAP54g (v2) access point.

I am trying to set it up in "access point client" mode
to communicate with my Linksys WRT54g router. It all
works just fine until I try to enable WEP.

When I enable the WEP in the web interface and tell it
to save the settings it always comes back as disabled.

I have the latest software: 2.07. Tech support was
not able to help me. Browsing the web did not turn
up anything that would solve this problem.

I doubt I am the first one that has ever run into this.
Can someone here share how they solved this issue
(I.e. how to get WEP to work with Access point client mode)
or suggest a new place I could go look?

-Donald
 
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User "Donald" <noone@nowhere.net>:
<MPG.1b7cbfaa60618b79989680@netnews.insightbb.com>...
> I recently purchased a Linksys WAP54g (v2) access point.
>
> I am trying to set it up in "access point client" mode
> to communicate with my Linksys WRT54g router. It all
> works just fine until I try to enable WEP.
>
> When I enable the WEP in the web interface and tell it
> to save the settings it always comes back as disabled.
I think this is a bug, radiobutton doesn't present the truth.

> I have the latest software: 2.07. Tech support was
> not able to help me. Browsing the web did not turn
> up anything that would solve this problem.
>
> I doubt I am the first one that has ever run into this.
> Can someone here share how they solved this issue
> (I.e. how to get WEP to work with Access point client mode)
> or suggest a new place I could go look?
>
> -Donald

Well, I have done this yesterday, with WAP54g v1.0 and WRT54g.
On the same config page where you set your WAP54g access point client mode
click the button next to the MAC address of the router. Select your network
on the displayed list. Your access point should detect that the connection
is WEP, and ask you to input your WEP key.

When I enabled the WEP in the web interface it didn't work, only
after I did the WEP setting from the access point client mode tab.

I'm not 100% sure this is all I did... But maybe it will help.

Kamil
 

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In article <cevll1$g5a$1@atlantis.news.tpi.pl>, "Kamil" <ksspeed@(dont)
(like)(spam)poczta.onet.pl> says...

> Well, I have done this yesterday, with WAP54g v1.0 and WRT54g.
> On the same config page where you set your WAP54g access point client mode
> click the button next to the MAC address of the router. Select your network
> on the displayed list. Your access point should detect that the connection
> is WEP, and ask you to input your WEP key.
>
> When I enabled the WEP in the web interface it didn't work, only
> after I did the WEP setting from the access point client mode tab.
>
> I'm not 100% sure this is all I did... But maybe it will help.
>
> Kamil
>
Thanks for your response. I have (had) a WAP54g v2.0 and unfortunately
this did not work. First of all I could not get my network to show up
even though my WRT54g router was broadcasting the SSID. (networking
working worked fine if I just specified my network or chose to connect
to "ANY")

I called tech support and talked to a second tier tech. He tried to
reproduce the problem in his lab. He was able to reproduce and tried
your method of connecting to a WEP enabled network from the list.
(this worked for him) He could not get WEP encryption to work with
the WAP in client mode either. He said it was a software bug and
said he would file it with their software people.

In the meantime I returned my WAP and am now looking for a real bridge.
(too bad a bridge is a lot more expensive)

Regards,
Donald