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Status

• NOT DONE

Introduction

For many years I had no wireless neighbors. A recent survey revealed crowded conditions. Needless to say our wireless connection has gone down hill. One AP just doesn't cut it any more.

To resolve my problem I looked at many options. All the options needed multiple base stations. My choices were multiple APs on differnet channels, WDS, or an ad-hoc mesh. I'm not sure which one I'm going to use but this HOWTO will cover a ad-hoc mesh network.

Software Setup

We are going to use OpenWRT on our Linksys WRT54G. The OpenWRT version is 7.07 (Kamakazi). I'm not going to cover installing OpenWRT. Please visit http://www.openwrt.org. Once you have OpenWRT installed continue on.

Before we install any packages we should update the package list.
> ipkg update

Next there are some packages to install. If you have other packages to install this would be a good time to do it.
> ipkg install olsrd olsrd-mod-dyn-gw microperl wl

The best thing about the new OpenWRT firmware is many of the settings are moved to configuration files. That means no more nvram settings. I keep copies of the config files on my computer for each setup.

Below are the configuration files for this setup. Just cut and paste.

Past the following into /etc/config

Paste the follwoing into /etc/config

Conclusion

This has been a usefull project. This setup has many more uses. Experiment and have fun.

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