Re: [SLUG] DD-WRT and its requirements

From: Eben King (eben01@verizon.net)
Date: Sun May 25 2008 - 22:24:43 EDT


On Sun, 25 May 2008, Daniel Nakov wrote:

> On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 9:39 PM, Eben King <eben01@verizon.net> wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 25 May 2008, Matthew Rogers wrote:
>>
>> Eben King wrote:
>>>
>>>> To that end, I've been looking at
>>>> http://dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Supported_Devices . In the listing for
>>>> the Actiontec MI424WR, under "WLAN standard" it says "ralink b/g (must be
>>>> replaced)". I want to use this router with an 802.11g signal. Can I do
>>>> this directly? There is another one of these routers in the house (supplied
>>>> by Verizon), and no hardware mods were performed here to enable the wireless
>>>> connection (but I have no idea what was done before it came here).
>>>
>> Just disable DHCP on any wireless router an it becomes a bridge.
>>
>> Why won't its wireless part form a separate SSID from my other router, as
>> opposed to the new router just being a device of the old router's SSID?

> It looks like you might be able to set it up without installing DD-WRT. I
> looked at the manual really quick and saw that it allows you to adjust
> connections, routing, bridge, etc.. It wont work if you just change the
> essid, you'd have to set it up manually.
>
> http://www.fiberfaq.com/admin/attachments/actiontec_mi424wr_manual.pdf

Sweet, that's a nice router too. In that case I'll go for one of those, and
if I can make DD-WRT do what I want, so much the better. Otherwise, I've
got the standard firmware on which to fall back.

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