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

Greg Brown gwbrown1 at gmail.com
Tue Feb 7 14:56:28 EST 2006


If you do want a pure bridge I've had excellent luck with the WAP54G units,
just for FYI.

On 2/7/06, Roy Vestal <rvestal at trilug.org> wrote:
>
> Just got off the phone with NewEgg. They are going to take it back.
>
> Thanks guys for the help.  :)
>
> Roy Vestal wrote:
>
> > Thanks Nathan. I'll try it, but I don't have USB one. I have 2.8 not 2.6
> >
> > Nathan Conrad wrote:
> >
> >> 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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