From: "Chuck McKinnis" <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com>
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Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2010 16:19:50 -0600
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Subject: Re: [OS2Wireless] eCS 2.0 GA WPA supplicant
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On 8/29/2010 3:59 PM, Will Honea wrote:
> ** Reply to message from "Chuck McKinnis"<os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com>
> on Sun, 29 Aug 2010 15:33:38 -0600
>
>
>> On 8/28/2010 6:32 PM, Norm Metcalf wrote:
>>> On 08/28/2010 06:15 PM, Chuck McKinnis wrote:
>>>> On 8/28/2010 4:58 PM, Norm Metcalf wrote:
>>>>> I need help. My router conked out so I installed a new router. However
>>>>> my laptop won't connect. The WPA Supplicant keeps scrolling trying to
>>>>> connect. The widget doesn't respond to the mouse so that I'm unable to
>>>>> click on Add/Edit Profile. Is there a way of accessing Add/Edit Profile
>>>>> through the command line? Or is there a better solution? Norm Metcalf,
>>>>> Boulder Colorado
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Make and model of router? Laptop?
>>>>
>>> The router is an ActionTEC GT704-WG and the laptop is a ThinkPad A20M.
>>> Norm
>>
>> Have you tried getting to the router using the Ethernet port?
>>
>> The ActionTEC combo box appears to have had some issues and not very
>> good reviews.  It does not appear to have full (WEP/WPA/WPA2) wireless
>> encryption support.
>>
>> When I installed DSL at my other home in Colorado, I opted for the
>> simple DSL modem and hooked a D-Link wireless router to it.
>>
>> You should be able to use the GENMAC command line utilities in
>> \genmac\bin to at least test things and maybe even get it going.  I
>> would also consider deleting the GENMAC widget, making sure that you
>> have a good copy of xwlan installed, and then adding the widget back in.
>>    You can get the latest copy of xwlan from the eCS 2.0 CD or
>> http://wlan.netlabs.org/en/site/downloads.xml
>
> To add to Chuck's comment, I found a box full of GT701WG/GT704WG routers and
> bought the whole bunch for $20 a few weeks back.  These were all orginally sold
> by Qwest for their DSL service and I've used one for several years - like Chuck
> and I, old doesn't mean useless but we do have limitations....
>
> The Actiontec firmware supports WEP and WPA/TKIP encryption.  Foggy memory also
> tells me that it also connected with a client using WPA2/TKIP but it definitely
> failed to connect when I tried to use WPA2/AES.  The WPA2/TKIP may have
> actually been a Windows XP fallback to the WPA1/TKIP but I stick to WPA/TKIP.
> There is no provision in the Actiontec firmware for WPA2 that I can find but
> I'm looking for one of the ddwrt/openwrt versions that may add it.  I figure
> that with the whole stack of modems I have for about a buck apiece I can afford
> to experiment if I ever: a. find the appropriate source and b. get the ambition
> to try it.  I like the modems - only failures I've had with 5-6 I run daily
> have been 1 early one to heat and 1 that took a lightning strike to the phone
> line cooking the DSL interface.
>

It looks like our buddies at dd-wrt got there last month.

http://www.dd-wrt.com/site/support/router-database

I don't know if it is the correct router (MI424WR).  The wiki looks 
pretty complete.  http://dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/MI424WR

-- 
Chuck McKinnis
Sandia Park, NM
http://www.7cities.net/~mckinnis/
Jesus answered and said unto him, "Verily, verily, I say unto thee, 
except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God." John 3:3