[PLUG] SUCCESS! Re: Setting up Linksys WRT54GL

[John Jason Jordan]

On Fri, 25 Mar 2011 19:20:34 -0700
John Jason Jordan <johnxj at comcast.net> dijo:

>My home is all ethernet, so I have never bothered with wireless
>devices. However, I now desire to set up a recently acquired Linksys
>WRT54GL so that only my laptop and phone can connect. 

To shortcut to the end of a very long and annoying story, I gave up
getting the WRT54G set up as an access point and ordered a D-Link
DWL-2100AP access point. The D-Link arrove yesterday, but I was not
able to get an IP address from it either. Upstream is a D-Link DGL-4100
router.

Since both devices are D-Link, and relatively recent, this morning I
called D-Link technical support. Very nice, albeit ineffective people.
I spent an hour and a half on the phone with them, including the last
45 minutes with an upper level tech guy. At the end they concluded that
there must be an incompatibility between the router and the access
point. I found that difficult to believe since they had no reports of
this in their knowledgebase. I can't believe I'm the first one to
discover the problem.

However, while poking at things the second level tech support guy had
me check the router to see if MAC address checking was enabled. It was,
and he told me that it is not supposed to be enabled by default, so I
turned it off. It didn't resolve the problem.

After telling me I should return the DWL-2100AP we ended the
support call. Then I decided to try the Linksys again, in the hopes
that perhaps having turned off MAC address checking in the D-Link
router it might now work. 

IT DOES! The phone happily asks for the WPA password I set, then
connects, and is able to buzz out all over the internet. My laptop also
connects without a problem.

So I am keeping the WRT54G, and I have placed the DWL-2100AP in my
Clinic box for further poking on the 17th.