On 2007-12-03, Timothy Murphy <tim@birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie> wrote: > > There is no log kept on the WRT54GL router - > it only has a flash disk, with very little space. > As far as I can see, it keeps no records at all. Well, if you run syslog and direct all logging to another host, you could get around the space issue. But if you haven't, then you wouldn't see log entries. > More to the point, the whole network is Linux. > dhcpd is running on the desktop, > and this gets a record (in /var/log/messages) > of all applications to join the network. Hmm, you're running dhcpd on a host behind the wifi? Do you have other wifi hosts on your network that work? It's slightly unusual (though not unheard of--I've done it) to run the dhcpd server not on the WAP. What are the other access settings on the WRT54GL like? Are you allowing access to all MACs, or do you have access control on? If it's on, you'll need to grant access to the new MAC there in addition to your dhcpd. You might also use iwconfig on the WRT54GL to determine the hex WEP password, and be sure to use that on the Mac; I have had problems with OS X converting cleartext passwords to hex passwords the WAP can understand. The other suggestion I could make is to temporarily turn off all wireless security, and see if your friend's box can connect. You could also turn on remote logging, so that you could see on your desktop's logs what a successful connection looks like. --keith -- kkeller-usenet@wombat.san-francisco.ca.us (try just my userid to email me) AOLSFAQ=http://www.therockgarden.ca/aolsfaq.txt see X- headers for PGP signature information

On 2007-12-03, Timothy Murphy <tim@birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie> wrote: > Keith Keller wrote: > >> Well, if you run syslog and direct all logging to another host, you >> could get around the space issue. But if you haven't, then you wouldn't >> see log entries. > > Thanks, that is an interesting idea. > But as far as I can see, syslog is not running on the router: Probably not; you'd have to install it yourself. Openwrt has a way to add software easily; I would guess that dd-wrt does too. > There is no access control on the router; > iwconfig does not run on the router, Try /sbin/iwconfig ? I don't see how iwconfig can't exist, but if it doesn't, there must be some docs for dd-wrt that describe what command to use in its place. --keith -- kkeller-usenet@wombat.san-francisco.ca.us (try just my userid to email me) AOLSFAQ=http://www.therockgarden.ca/aolsfaq.txt see X- headers for PGP signature information

On 2007-12-04, Timothy Murphy <tim@birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie> wrote: > > I'll look into that. > But flash disk space is so tight on the WRT54GL > I doubt if one can add anything. I have a WRT54GL running openwrt, and there's enough space to add a webserver and an sshd (not opensshd, of course! I forget which one). So there's probably space in dd-wrt for some sort of syslog. It's probably worth looking into. --keith -- kkeller-usenet@wombat.san-francisco.ca.us (try just my userid to email me) AOLSFAQ=http://www.therockgarden.ca/aolsfaq.txt see X- headers for PGP signature information