I have an old raspberry pi 1, installed openwrt 23. With lan I connected it on my main router. All works ...
I have an USB wlan stick ( Qualcomm Atheros Communications AR9271 802.11n ), works, too ...
I want to do a WDS to my main router. I have a wlan connection to my WDS router, I can see it on my raspberry openWRT interface. But when I pull out the lan cable to my main router, I have no connection to my raspberry anymore. I dont undestand it?
Is the main router also running OpenWrt? If not, that's a show stopper as WDS doesn't usually work across different types of firmware. You need both sides of a WDS connection to be running the same firmware.
Meanwhile, running WDS on a Pi (especially a Pi 1) is not a particularly good option, even with a usb wifi stick... that stick would need to be capable of both AP and sta modes simultaneously, and would likely have poor performance.
Yes, OpenWrt 23. The poor performance doesnt matter. I only want to get my raspberry connect with WDS to my main router. By the way, I have tried with an amd64 and thats the same problem. I only can connect with lan to my main router. I have some wlan routers ( FritzBox ) with OpenWRT and there is no problem with WDS to my main router. All routers are OpenWrt routers.
Did I forget a brigde? Or some thing else?
Why WDS and not simply STA mode?
No idea since you haven't shared your configs... but first things first...
As far as configurations are concerned, though, did you follow this guide exactly?
https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/network/wifi/wifiextenders/wds
I dont understand your post ... I want a WDS. coz I can extend my wlan to the garden. Of course, I can do a mesh, the USB wlan stick can do a mesh, too. But WDS have advantages for me.
Witch configs u need?
Ok... that wasn't entirely clear since you hadn't mentioned it before.
Keep in mind that the performance of this network extension will be extremely poor, both in terms of bandwidth and range. And that assumes that the USB wifi stick you have is capable of simultaneous STA + AP mode operation.
My DSL connection is 11Mbit ... it dosent make big sense to use a bigger raspberry pi with a higher WLAN connection. Apart from that, its only a project.
Ok... well, make sure you follow the guide exactly as it is written.... did you do that?
Have you verified that the USB stick is capable of simultaneous AP + STA mode operation?
I told you, the stick 'Qualcomm Atheros Communications AR9271 802.11n' is very, very good to use it with OpenWRT. Its full suppored by OpenWrt.
Yes ... thats the reason, I bought this stick.
And did you follow the guide to the T?
Yes, I did ...
On my SoC routers ( 3 pieces ), it works ...
Ok...
from each device:
Please connect to your OpenWrt device using ssh and copy the output of the following commands and post it here using the "Preformatted text </> " button:
Remember to redact passwords, MAC addresses and any public IP addresses you may have:
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cat /etc/config/network
cat /etc/config/wireless
cat /etc/config/dhcp
cat /etc/config/firewall
I have tried to use ar9170 (carl9170) and ar9271 (ath9k_htc) in AP mode (not WDS/ 4addr) for a couple of years in the past, while it technically worked (with severe limits on the number of connected clients), the result was not a pleasant experience. Lots of delays, stalls and other problems, I'd rather strongly recommend against this (or an RPi for this purpose), the cheapest/ crappiest ath79 device (things like the tl-wdr3600) will run circles around your setup - and be totally painless and reliable/ stable as well, not even talking about actual modern gear.
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Command back ...
The only reason that I wanted to use WDS was, that I wanted to extend my wifi with the same ip range. Now I solved it, with relayd. It works. Iam right, to use relayd?
Looks good but I cant find one in germany.
Oh, thank you !
I bought it ...
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