Tomato & Wireless Problem

Slime · 4 May 2009 at 17:24

Hello all,

I've just installed tomato firmware on my WRT54GL as I was using the standard firmware before but I'm having problems connecting to the network wirelessly.

My PC tries to connect but it looks like it's not obtaining an IP address as I can see the wireless connection in the device list within tomato but no IP address is listed next to it.

I've literally changed the password for tomato and setup a WEP key but have changed nothing else. Is there something that I should've ticked to enable wireless? DHCP server is ticked.

Thanks for any help,

Slime

Slime · 4 May 2009 at 17:35

Never mind, all sorted

tolien · 4 May 2009 at 17:40

Do share how you fixed it. It might help someone else...

Also, WEP's useless for security. You want WPA at a minimum (it's not worth the hassle of setting up MAC address filtering though) or it's barely worth bothering at all.

.one. · 4 May 2009 at 19:10

tolien said:
Do share how you fixed it. It might help someone else...

Also, WEP's useless for security. You want WPA at a minimum (it's not worth the hassle of setting up MAC address filtering though) or it's barely worth bothering at all.

Out of interest why do you say MAC filtering is not worth the hassle ?

tolien · 4 May 2009 at 19:38

It offers no real security (MAC addresses are easy to spoof and the filtering doesn't protect what you transfer over the network) and is a major PITA if you connect a new device.

Slime · 5 May 2009 at 12:37

tolien said:
Do share how you fixed it. It might help someone else...

I doubt anyone would be so stupid as to make the same mistake, but I'd setup the WEP key incorrectly and had ticked 128 bit encryption instead of 64. D'oh!