[shanadms]

Help!

I need help configuing my new Linksys WET11. I have been through all the forums and googled myself half blind trying every trick in print for getting this thing to talk/recognize my Aisrport Base Station (Snow). I have been able to change the settings on the WET11 through the web based utility - change to DHCP and have it supply my mac with an IP address but the damn thing won't talk to the Airport - the WLAN light has come on once but in scanning for SSID nothing happens. Is this thing broken or what should I be doing?
Please, step by step if you have nay help for me.

Thanks

PS. I know this is only the beginning of my problems as the WET is slated for use by a PS2.

[John Strung]

Time to start all over. Press and hold the reset button on the WET11 for 30 seconds to set it back to the factory defaults. Connect your Mac to the LinkSys using an ethernet cable. Open your Mac's Network Prefs Panel if you are using OS X (or the TCP/IP control panel if you are using OS 9). Set your ethernet TCP/IP settings as follows:

Connect Manually
IP address = 192.168.1.2
Gateway or router = 192.168.1.225
Subnet mask = 255.255.255.0.

Then open a browser and go to http://192.168.1.225 which should take you to the LinkSys Setup program.

In the LinkSys setup program, change the IP address of the LinkSys from 192.168.1.225 to 10.0.1.225 and hit apply. This will cause you to lose your connection to the Linksys.

Now go back into the TPC/IP settings on the Mac and change them to:

IP address = 10.0.1.200
Gateway or Router = 10.0.1.1
Subnet Mask = 255.255.255.0

This should re-enable you to connect to the LinkSys.

Now go into the Linksys setting program (which will now be found at http://10.0.1.225) and try to connect to the Airport Base Station. Once you get the Linksys to recognize the ABS, change the TCP/IP settings of your Mac back to DHCP.

See also Setting up a WET11 from a Mac

[rambo47]

The first generation WET11 product had a known compatibility problem with Apple's AirPort. Seems the Amtel Prism 2 Chipset is the culprit. Later versions of the WET11 supposedly addressed this issue and resolved it. There is a workaround talked about in this thread:http://forums.macnn.com/showthread.p...hreadid=144531

[John Strung]

Rambo, are you sure you got that right? I had a cursory look at your link (I must admit it was too long for me to read it thoroughly), but it looked to me as if is was addressing an incompatibility between Airport Extreme CARDS and third party base stations, one of which was a LinkSys WAP11.

Shanadams is trying to use a LinkSys WET!! ethernet-to-wireless bridge to connect to an Airport Base Station, which is a different kettle of fish entirely.

[rambo47]

Looks like I misread the original post and went off on a tangent. My bad, but thanks for correcting. I would hate to recommend a course of action and have it acted upon, only to find we were talking at cross purposes.

[John Strung]

It's easy enough to do.

[shanadms]

John,

I followed your advice, reconfigured my mac and the wet11 to the new IP addresses but still no go. When I initiate the site survey on the wet11 it searches and searchs but can't find or can't communicate with the ABS. Does this have anything to do with the ABS configuration? I have the ABS conneceted directly to a Roadrunner cable modem, so the ABS is set up for DHCP and NAT. Thanks again.

[John Strung]

What sort of security do you have set on the ABS? Do you have SSID broadcast turned off by any chance, or WEP set up, or MAC address filtering?

[shanadms]

WEP is turned off. How do I configure SSID & MAC addressing on the ABS?

[John Strung]

Sorry, I don't know the answer to that since I don't have an ABS. I would think there must be a setting somewhere for SSID broadcast, and it should be ON until you have figured out how to connect the LinkSys to the ABS. Similarly, you want MAC filtering OFF.

[John Strung]

P.S. on the LinkSys setup, make sure you have the TYPE set to INFRASTURE and WEP set to OFF. Then try hitting Site Survey again.

How far apart are your WET11 and ABS when you do this?

Also, what shows up under the LinkSys Status tab?

[shanadms]

Well, I got it to work. Here's what I did, what exactally was the trigger I don't know.
1. Changed IP address on the wet11 to 10.0.1.50 - because I read omewhere that avaialble IP addresses for NAT were limited to 1-50
2. Added the MAC address of the wet11 to the ABS list of Access devices
3. Changed the Gateway Address on the wet11 to 10.0.1.1 - it was still configured to the default address

The most interesting item is that refreshing either on IE or using the refresh command on the wet11 web utility did not actually refresh any information or show updated configuration settings. I had to shut down IE, restart and log back on into the web utility - this might be the answer to half the problem.

Thanks for all of your help.

[shanadms]

One last thing I had to undo. I removed the wet11 from the access list becuase, of course, all the other airport enabled computers lost their access to the network. I did not feel like adding all of their MAC addresses to the access list.

The wet11 still works fine.

[John Strung]

Glad you got it working.