[Tfug] FS: Linksys WRT54G with the excellent v.2 chipset -alreadyflashed with DD-WRT full edition

[ianmcorvidae]

Google: http://www.google.com/search?q=WDS

I don't mean to act like the old [grumpy] fogies that populate many 
mailing lists, but can we please not pollute others' inboxes with 
one-line emails that can be answered with four keystrokes in an open
firefox session?

Thanks.

On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 11:32:22PM -0700, Jim March wrote:
> What's "WDS"?
> 
> On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 11:05 PM, Matthew T. Eskes <meskes at gmail.com> wrote:
> > The linksys routers support WDS, both lazy and fixed. So he doesn't *need*
> > to have something else on there as long as it supports something like that.
> > Iirc, though I have Buffalo gear now, that you could go as far as bridging
> > with the stock Linksys firmware as well.
> >
> > Again, I could be wrong.
> >
> > Matt
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: tfug-bounces at tfug.org [mailto:tfug-bounces at tfug.org] On Behalf Of Jim
> > March
> > Sent: Monday, August 18, 2008 10:35 PM
> > To: bexley401 at yahoo.com; Tucson Free Unix Group
> > Subject: Re: [Tfug] FS: Linksys WRT54G with the excellent v.2 chipset
> > -alreadyflashed with DD-WRT full edition
> >
> > Ohhhhhkay...maybe I'm the one mis-understanding.
> >
> > Say we have a Linksys v.2 router, all stock firmware.
> >
> > Somebody ELSE has a distant free WiFi signal on a city freenet.
> >
> > Our hypothetical newbie in Berkeley (not so hypothetical come to
> > think) has a Dell with a crappy Broadcom G internal WiFi card running
> > Hardy.  He's also got working Ethernet.  He knows the SSID of the
> > citynet, but can't reliably hook up to it from home.
> >
> > So he connects the Linksys router.  With stock firmware, he can use
> > that to READ the citynet SSID and feed that into him as Ethernet?
> >
> > I thought that needed DD-WRT, Tomato or other FOSS firmware?  There's
> > no functionality in the stock firmware for that.
> >
> > Right?
> >
> > Jim
> >
> > On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 7:28 PM, Bexley Hall <bexley401 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >> --- On Mon, 8/18/08, Jim March <1.jim.march at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> The non-tech user I had planned it for needed to use it in "client
> >>> mode" - *recieving* a WiFi signal and turning that into Ethernet.
> >>>
> >>> Or to put it another way: he needed to boost his WiFi signal
> >>> significantly...he's in a marginal reception zone.
> >>
> >> I'm not sure I follow.  I use my WRT54G (with the excellent
> >> v.2 chipset) to receive a WiFi signal and turn it into
> >> ethernet.   I.e., my WRT54G feeds my bastion host (along
> >> with my PLC NIC) which, then, feeds my network.
> >>
> >> So, I could put the WRT54G on a 100' CAT5 and extend my
> >> network's geographical coverage by that 100 feet, etc.
> >>
> >> What am I not "getting" in this explanation?
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
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