How to configure WGR614L as client/repeater bridge using Broadcom firmware: MyOpenRouter

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November 19, 2008 4:52 AM

Although I have not done it using the original firmware, I know it can be done with OpenWRT and probably the others as well. Anyway just about everything has to use the same binary only kernel drivers for the broadcom chipset. This implies that you also have to use the broadcom command line tool wl. So...

Why not take a look at the broadcom-wl package in OpenWRT (trunk/package/broadcom-wl). You will find that the script in trunk/package/broadcom-wl/files/lib/wifi/broadcom.sh has all the wireless stuff covered.

If I understand correctly, the wl tool will allow you to configure the wireless side of things. Create new virtual interfaces, set them to be clients, base-stations etc. After that your back to brctl and friends.

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November 19, 2008 7:09 AM

thanks,
I will definitely give it a try .... right now I am trying to do it with nvram utility which is already present in my code base ....

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November 19, 2008 9:20 AM

I m not yet able to configure my board as a client/repeater using nvram and wl utilty already avlbl in broadcom's firmware .... I also noticed some indiscrepancies in the information I get from GUI and that from wl and nvram ..... does the wl utility provided in openwrt is different from the one here or both are the same ....

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November 19, 2008 9:45 AM

I suspect that the OpenWRT one is based on the orignal version, although I suspect it has probably seen quite a few upgrades. In general the OpenWRT stuff tends to take the original and make it better. So I suspect the version in OpenWRT is different.

I am not sure what your trying to do; however I am fairly sure OpenWRT can do it. Especially if you add x-wrt (webby user interface).

You may find that the original broadcom firmware was just not designed to do what you want. I suspect the place you want to dig around in is the source code to rc. (src/router/rc I think).

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November 19, 2008 9:43 PM

You can also try with DD-WRT firmware. It already supports Client-Bridge and Repeater-Bridge.

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November 20, 2008 10:36 PM

Well I have tried the DD-WRT stuff and it works OK .... I just want to check this support in Broadcom firmware ....

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November 20, 2008 10:40 PM

bzing2 said: I suspect that the OpenWRT one is based on the orignal version, although I suspect it has probably seen quite a few upgrades. In general the OpenWRT stuff tends to take the original and make it better. So I suspect the version in OpenWRT is different. I am not sure what your trying to do; however I am fairly sure OpenWRT can do it. Especially if you add x-wrt (webby user interface). You may find that the original broadcom firmware was just not designed to do what you want. I suspect the place you want to dig around in is the source code to rc. (src/router/rc I think).

Thanks bzing for your input . I will first try to port the wl stuff of Openwrt to broadcom .... so that I will have a reliable tool to

test the proceedings ....and if after that I am not able to configure my board as repeater .. I will look into the code ....

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