Can someone give me a hand with DD-WRT?

[jlee]

I have it set up as a wireless repeater - all the settings took and everything seems okay, but I can only access it via wired LAN.

I have wireless and wired on my desktop - if I disabled wired, I can get online via wireless. I think it's picking up the primary router (192.168.1.1) and not the DD-WRT/wireless repeater/bridge (192.168.1.2)...signal strength is not max and the DD-WRT is 5 feet away from the wireless card. If I have both enabled, I have no internet access (I did before, when I had internet connection sharing set up through a wired router).

I followed the tutorial here: http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Repeater_Bridge

Any help would be great!

Edit:
If I have wireless and wired enabled on my desktop, I lose DNS (opendns IPs on both adapters) but can access the DD-WRT router. If I disable wired, I regain DNS/internet. If I disable wireless, I can still access the DD-WRT router but have nothing else.

WTF?

 

[ch33zw1z]

The first thing I noticed is your previous use of Internet Connection Sharing, which puts your NICs on different networks. So NOW when you're enabling both NICs, they're connecting to the same network. This is confusing to the OS. You need to use one or the other.

It seems like the problem comes down to one issue: "If I disable wireless, I can still access the DD-WRT router but have nothing else." This to me screams config issue. Carefully double check all settings. If you can web gui into the DDWRT router, that tells us the wired connection is tx/rx ok but the repeater isn't talking to the Primary.

Couple things to check:

1. Can you ping the Primary router from the workstation? aka are packets even being sent between pri router and repeater bridge
2. What does the Secondary router show in the Wireless Survey menu?
3. Can you post an IPCONFIG /ALL output while on the wired?

Edit: also, if you look at the Repeater-Bridge pic here, notice there's a Virtual interface that is set up with a different SSID on the repeater, so your laptop is more than likely accessing the Primary router directly.

 

[jlee]

Ahhh you're a genius, thanks! I disabled ICS and assigned static IP's and set DNS and I think everything works!

1) Yes
2) I have no idea where that is. 😱
3)

Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

C:\Documents and Settings\JLee>ipconfig /all

Windows IP Configuration

Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : GAMING
Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . :
Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Unknown
IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No

Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Generic Marvell Yukon 88E8056 based
Ethernet Controller
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-50-8D-BB-F8-A1
Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.138
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1
DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 208.67.222.222
208.67.220.220

Ethernet adapter Wireless Network Connection:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Belkin Wireless G Desktop Card
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-11-50-6F-67-19
Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.139
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1
DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 208.67.222.222
208.67.220.220

C:\Documents and Settings\JLee>

As far as I can tell, it's working! I have internet access even with the wireless disabled, and my 360 just got on XBox Live through the DD-WRT LAN! 😀

Thanks!! :beer:🙂

 

[ch33zw1z]

Glad it was an easy fix, cheers!:beer:

 

[jlee]

Well, I went on vacation for a week...came back and it's dead. Reset the router, went through the DDWRT walkthrough again, no dice.

Meh!

 

[jlee]

Well, I went on vacation for a week...came back and it's dead. Reset the router, went through the DDWRT walkthrough again, no dice.

Meh!

 

[xSauronx]

define "dead" better by giving us what will work and what wont. i had dd-wrt running for a while and it would get random fits and the WDS would just stop working, but wifi to each node worked.

you can also try powering down the routers for a couple of minutes and then powering them back on

 

[jlee]

define "dead" better by giving us what will work and what wont. i had dd-wrt running for a while and it would get random fits and the WDS would just stop working, but wifi to each node worked.

you can also try powering down the routers for a couple of minutes and then powering them back on

Perhaps 'dead' was the wrong word -- it was still there, and I could ping it, but I completely lost the connection to the other router. I tried resetting it with no luck, then did a hard reset / back to defaults and followed one of the dd-wrt walkthroughs and it's still not working. When I have time, I'll go through again and make sure I'm using the right tutorial and see if I have any better luck.