No internet on wireless, Tomato firmware

[Mackster]

Hi, I recently bought the Buffalo WHR-HP-54G router, and flashed it instantly to the "famous" Tomato 1.10 firmware. I am on DSL, and use PPPOE to connect. I entered this information in the router settings, and my laptop connected fine to the internet. This is with the ethernet cable connected between my router and my laptop.

Now, the problem is that I cannot get the internet to work when I use my wireless card in my laptop. The card seems ok, I can actually see my routers wireless network, which I have named, and encrypted via WPA. And I can also connect to it. However, I have no access to internet once I am connected...

Is there some configuration that I must further do to make this work? I also want to be able to go to my routers web interface, and access internet, via wireless, not lan cable. This should all be possible. Please help me out someone?

Thanks.

/Mackster

[+BudMan MVC]

An do you get an IP address once you connect? Can you ping your routers IP address once you connected wireless?

Did you setup mac filtering along with WPA? your wired interface will have a different mac address than your wireless one.

As to accessing the routers web interface via wireless

Access Restriction

Set time, computer, and protocol based bans on Internet access.

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Tomato_Firmware

Administration

Admin Access

Controls the various means that can be used to access the router for administrative purposes.

All services use the same password, which is changed at the bottom of this page.

Web Admin

Controls access to the router via a web browser. The web username may be "admin" or "root".

* Local Access: Determines whether and how the router may be accessed from a web browser on a local computer (a computer attached to the router, or attached to a switch or hub attached to the router). Access can be via HTTP (regular web), HTTPS (SSL-encrypted web), both, or disabled.

* Remote Access: Determines whether and how the router may be accessed from a web browser from the WAN (Internet) side of the router. It is not recommended that this be enabled, and if it must be enabled, consider using the HTTPS method, which at least encrypts your session data.

* Allow Wireless Access: If checked, wireless clients on your local network can access your router's administration screens using the same method as wired clients. This has no effect on Remote Access.

[Mackster]

An do you get an IP address once you connect? Can you ping your routers IP address once you connected wireless?

Did you setup mac filtering along with WPA? your wired interface will have a different mac address than your wireless one.

As to accessing the routers web interface via wireless

Access Restriction

Set time, computer, and protocol based bans on Internet access.

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Tomato_Firmware

Administration

Admin Access

Controls the various means that can be used to access the router for administrative purposes.

All services use the same password, which is changed at the bottom of this page.

Web Admin

Controls access to the router via a web browser. The web username may be "admin" or "root".

* Local Access: Determines whether and how the router may be accessed from a web browser on a local computer (a computer attached to the router, or attached to a switch or hub attached to the router). Access can be via HTTP (regular web), HTTPS (SSL-encrypted web), both, or disabled.

* Remote Access: Determines whether and how the router may be accessed from a web browser from the WAN (Internet) side of the router. It is not recommended that this be enabled, and if it must be enabled, consider using the HTTPS method, which at least encrypts your session data.

* Allow Wireless Access: If checked, wireless clients on your local network can access your router's administration screens using the same method as wired clients. This has no effect on Remote Access.

Hi, and thanks for your reply! It is the first time I have to configure a router manually via its web interface.

Answer to your questions.

The IP adress I get when I connect wirelessly is 169.254.61.63. I cannot ping my routers IP address, which is 192.168.1.1.

I also noticed that if I restart the computer, I cannot access my routers web interface via my wired connection either. I get a similiar IP address starting at 169.254... Seems that is not a real IP address. Basically, I have to reset my router, then my computer sees the router again, and do the PPPOE settings once again to access the internet... It is very tedious.

I have the "allow wireless access" checked, to access the web interface. I also allow local access via http to the router.

I have not set up any mac filtering, where should I do that, and it is necessary? I have Wireless Client Filter disabled. All local wireless connections to the router should then be allowed?

I haven't touched anything in the Tomato default settings, except setting up my PPPOE. I unchecked the DHCP Server setting, though.

I am using Windows Vista, maybe that information helps. Thanks for your input, hope to get more. :)

[+BudMan MVC]

A 169.254 address is a APIPA address - an no your not going to be able to get anywhere other than to other APIPA address with it. Its a random address windows gives it self when set for dhcp, an no dhcp servers answer.

So you either have an issue with the dhcp on the router.. or your blocking it with a firewall? Have seen this quite a bit with users running firewalls that do not understand what its telling them.. an block all kinds of required things.

If you not running any type of firewall software on your machine.. your having an issue with the dhcp server on the router.. Try setting your clients to static addresses.

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documen...g.mspx?mfr=true

To configure TCP/IP for static addressing

Say 192.168.1.50 or someting

mask 255.255.255.0

gateway 192.168.1.1 <--- your routers IP

dns 192.168.1.1 <--- normally your routers IP, but you could use your ISPs or opendns, etc.

btw - you do not have to quote a persons entire post, when your the next one answering ;)

[Mackster]

Hi again, thanks for your quick reply! I hope to solve this the coming hours. I don't have any other firewall than the Vista firewall, which is enabled by default. I tried to disable it, but it didn't change my situation.

However, I tried the static addresses approach.

I tried wired connection, and I can connect to my router, ping it and access it's web interface, as well as access internet! :) This seems to work even if I reboot the computer.

When I try the same with wireless connection, I can now connect to my router, ping it as well as access it's web interface! However, still cannot access internet. :( Any clue why it so? I was carefull not to use the same IP's for the ethernet and wireless card.

I also entered my MAC addresses for my wireless card, as well as my iPod touch into the MAC filtering list in Tomato, to make everything more secure. The iPod touch I have, using the same approach with entering static addresses, also cannot access internet, but finds and connects to the router. I get the APIPA address with it, if I do not set static data.

Wireless connections still seems a mystery why they don't work.

But hm... you are right, something may not be working correctly regarding the router's dhcp capability... not giving me good IP's. Can this because I in the Tomato settings disabled the option DHCP Server?

This is what the wiki says:

DHCP Server

"Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) is a protocol used by networked computers (clients) to obtain IP addresses. Use this to control the IP addresses that your router hands out to computers connected to the Wired or Wireless Local Network. If checked, the router will hand out addresses within the range specified. You may also customize the amount of time before computers on the LAN will renew their IP addresses (the Lease Time) and specify a Windows Internet Name Service (WINS) server if you use WINS."

So this option should be enabled, right? Otherwise it cannot function as DHCP at all, I suspect.

I will try to enable this option, and see if it changes anything.

[+BudMan MVC]

Can this because I in the Tomato settings disabled the option DHCP Server?

:blink: Ya think ;) :rofl:

How did you think your machines were going to get IP addresses?? If you disabled that? If you did not understand what it was? Why would you disable it?

If you can access the routers interface over wireless, then either you have some type of mac filtering going on.. There is little point to mac filtering -- other than a control for you own use.. If you do not need/want to control your machines internet access with mac filtering -- then I would disable that function on your router. It provides no security, an just makes admin of your own network harder.

I would suggest verify that you can resolve websites IP when your wireless.

Ie ping www.google.com -- do you get an IP address an a reply?

C:\>ping www.google.com

Pinging www.l.google.com [64.233.167.147] with 32 bytes of data:

eply from 64.233.167.147: bytes=32 time=7ms TTL=247

If so -- this means your getting out to the internet.. If you do not get an IP returned.. ie something like unknown host or something -- then you have a name resolution issues.. Maybe you typed the dns address wrong? Or forgot to set it?

edit: btw there is no reason that you would have to make your wired an wireless IPs the same.. An if anything could cause you issues with arp caching the IP to the other mac, etc.. Different interfaces should really have different IPs.

If you made your wired one .50, make your wireless .51 etc..

But you I would really just suggest you turn the dhcp server on ;) Without the dhcp server running?? How did you ever get on the internet??? using the router??

[Mackster]

It worked! I can now access internet via wireless too! Even on my iPod. :) A little embarrassing that I disabled the DHCP Server option in Tomato, but at that point I didn't knew it was necessary. Thanks again! :)

Edit: Haha, saw your latest reply, yes I am a little of a newbie when it comes to network and routers. ;)