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OpenWRT and IPv6

Submitted by mla on Fri, 03/28/2008 - 16:18

Thje hardware is complete. I got an ASUS WL500g Premium (WL500gP) router from alternate.at and an Artheros based WLAN PCI-mini card, the Gigabyte WI01HT, also from altnernate.at. Over the weekend I'll install OpenWRT on this router so that i can do

  • an IPv6 Tunnel to the IPv6 world outside
    • offering IPv6 for email and web on my lausch.at servers
    • accessing services via IPv6
  • Giving out IPv6 addresses on the WLAN interface
  • Using IPv6 at home

 

 

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Replacing the Broadcom Wifi with the Atheros Wifi card

Submitted by mla on Tue, 04/01/2008 - 16:08

After opening the router and loosening the builtin broadcom card from the supporting piece of sponge it was easy to remove the WiFi card. I plugged the antenna cable into the Atheros card before placing the card into the  PCI-mini slot, because  otherwise the antenna cable is too short to plug it in sithout using too much force. The tiny plug and socket look rather fragile and I was afraid of breaking it. I plugged the cable in the socket which is the second if counted from the left edge of the card, when the contacts point in your direction.

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I installed the OpenWRT software on the router and enabled WiFi by putting the following lines into the /etc/config/wireless file.


config wifi-device  wifi0
      option type     atheros
      option channel  7
      # REMOVE THIS LINE TO ENABLE WIFI:

config wifi-iface
      option device   wifi0
      option mode     ap
      option ssid     OpenWrt
      option encryption psk2
      option key      XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
After executing `wifi' on the command line, I could connect to the router, but didn't get any IP adress. Well my DHCP server is not the router, because I like to have DNS entries for configured interfaces, and therefore I use ISC DHCP together with dynamic DNS updates.
 

 

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