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I’ve been messing around with my stack of WRT54G routers this weekend.  So far I have serial modded two out of the five that I have sitting here.  The neat thing about the serial mod is that it’s so easy to grab a console off of it without worrying about network parameters.  The bad thing is that your router may or may not be connected to the internet when you are on that console.  It’s pretty easy to hook up to another wireless router in client mode from the console.  I couldn’t find the following information all in one place so I’m going to hash out the quick version here:

iwconfig wlan0 essid router_name

iwconfig wlan0 key 0123456789 (I have a wep router handy for connecting older devices)

ifconfig wlan0 10.10.10.40 netmask 255.255.255.0 (no dhcp client on my router by default)

ifconfig wlan0 up

route add default gw 10.10.10.1

ifconfig wlan0 up

and finally add a known dns server (like 8.8.8.8) to your /etc/resolv.conf with vi

For advanced Unix users, none of this is anything new but hopefully this will help someone else out there who is struggling through an OpenWrt or Gentoo install or can’t figure out how to configure wireless on your Zipit after you’ve put an aftermarket root fs on it.  All of these settings will disappear when you reboot your device aside from editing the resolv.conf although if you are using a WRT54G series router, your edits to the resolv.conf will also disappear.