Re: WRT54G Firmware Upgrade

mimi <curiousnfirewall@xxxxxxxxx> hath wroth:

I went to Network adapters under "Device Manager".

For the record, in Windows XP, Start -> Control Panel -> System ->
Hardware Management -> Device Managers -> expand Network adaptors ->
Right click on the wireless device, and select Properties.

Yet another way. Right click on the "My Computah" on the desktop.
Select Properties -> Hardware -> Device Manager -> etc.
I think you're working under the "advanced" tab.

Fastest way:
Start -> Run -> cmd <enter>
devmgmt.msc

Extra credit: To go directly to various control panel and admin
appletes, first make a list with:
Start -> Run -> cmd <enter>
cd \windows\system32 (or winnt for w2K)
dir *.msc
You can kinda guess what they do by decoding the file names. For
example, gpedit.msc is the Group Policy Editor.

I am doing this checking from a laptop with wireless capability (g).
The channel is showing to be 11. I now remember that after I created
my own net key for WPA, initially at channel 6 (tech support asked me
to leave it hat way), I couldn't get onto the wireless network,
actually, I didn't see my network and so I called the tech support and
he made me change to channel 11. (It was during this time, he also
made me turn the modem to a bridge and set PPPoE for connection type
in the router).

That will not work. The "properties" for your unspecified wireless
device is usually a rather extensive list. There are several places
where it lists the wireless channel. One is for ad-hoc networking
only and will change the channel. The other is for infrstructure type
networking and will change as soon as you connect to an access point.
I guess(tm) that the setting is there for a starting channel when the
client scans for a suitable access point to connect. In
infrastructure mode, the channel is controlled by the access point,
not the client.

During that setup, I also changed my net key to dice words. So my
question now is could I have been able to keep my non-diceword key and
get onto the network once the channel was changed to 11 (without
turning the modem to a bridge, etc.)? At this point,I would not
change my diceword based net key but want to understand whether
problem of not being able to get onto the network, actually couldn't
even see the network, was channel issue only or not.

You're mixing two questions here. Encryption has nothing to do with
channel. You can mangle the encryption any way you want, and you
still be able to connect. That's because the access point controls
the channel, not the client computah. If you tweak the registry or
device properties to claim that the client is on channel 1, but the
access point is on channel 11, you're going to end up on channel 11
(in infrastructure mode). Ad-hoc is a different story.

No clue why you can't connect (or what you're trying to accomplish).
Since you're into tweaking, it's likely that you have changed
something that shouldn't have been changed. Hard to tell from here,
especially since you didn't disclose what device you're tweaking. In
another part of this thread, you seem to have solve the encryption key
problem, so I guess it's fixed.

Incidentally, if you're a masochist, try enabling the Windoze Wireless
diagnostic output using:
netsh ras set tracing * en
net stop wzcsvc
net start wzcsvc
Look for log files in:
c:\windoze\tracing\
directory. There's quite a bit of output, but something should show
up in wzctrace.log.
<http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/maintain/wlansupp.mspx>
I usually save a trace file collection for a normal connection. Then,
when something goes awry, I can compare it with the current version.

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