[TriLUG] OT: Just bought a WAP11 and I'm pissed

[Nathan Conrad]

It looks like there might be hope. Seatle wireless has some pages on
WAP11 alternate firmwares, and using SNMP to reconfigure it to do
interesting things.

See:

http://www.seattlewireless.net/index.cgi/Wap11Hack
http://www.seattlewireless.net/Wap11Ver22Hack


-Nathan

On Mon, Feb 06, 2006 at 11:08:15PM -0500, Roy Vestal wrote:
> Okey, now that I have your attention:
> 
> I just bought a Linksys WAP11 so I can bridge 2 ethernets together, one 
> in the house, one in the garage. Here's setup:
> 
> House:
> Netgear MR814 Wirless/wired router
> 
> Garage:
> Old Linksys 4 port switch. WAP11.
> 
> What I want to do is this:
> 
> MR814 --> WAP11 <-- Linksys router
> 
> I truely just want the #%@^EW$%# thing to be a bridge, not a repeater. 
> According to the LOGIN screen, not the docs from the reseller (didn't 
> check the docs on Linksys.com before the purchase), it only works with 
> other Linksys gear.
> 
> So my question is 2 fold. has anyone done something like this, use a 
> WAP11 with a NON-Linksys Wireless router as a bridge. Is so, how'd you 
> do it?  If it's not possible, does anyone want the damn thing. I don't 
> need another AP.
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