[OpenWrt-Users] wrt150n wireless problems

[Garrett Reid]

I just flashed my wrt150n with openwrt-wrt150n-2.4-squashfs.bin (new  
user). I logged in, set a password, and sshed into the device, but  
have been completely unable to get wireless to function. For some  
reason, iwconfig doesn't think any of the interfaces are wireless  
devices.

I'm sure I'm missing something blatantly obvious, but I can't figure  
out what that might be. Below is a copy-paste from a terminal so you  
can see what I'm trying to describe.

Thanks for taking a look!
Garrett

> garrett$ ssh root at 192.168.1.1
> root at 192.168.1.1's password:
>
> BusyBox v1.4.2 (2008-01-09 09:02:27 CST) Built-in shell (ash)
> Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.
>
>   _______                     ________        __
>  |       |.-----.-----.-----.|  |  |  |.----.|  |_
>  |   -   ||  _  |  -__|     ||  |  |  ||   _||   _|
>  |_______||   __|_____|__|__||________||__|  |____|
>           |__| W I R E L E S S   F R E E D O M
>  KAMIKAZE (7.09) -----------------------------------
>   * 10 oz Vodka       Shake well with ice and strain
>   * 10 oz Triple sec  mixture into 10 shot glasses.
>   * 10 oz lime juice  Salute!
>  ---------------------------------------------------
> root at OpenWrt:~# ifconfig
> br-lan    Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:18:F8:E6:2E:37
>           inet addr:192.168.1.1  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask: 
> 255.255.255.0
>           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>           RX packets:60861 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>           TX packets:59165 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
>           RX bytes:3788299 (3.6 MiB)  TX bytes:4461308 (4.2 MiB)
>
> eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:18:F8:E6:2E:37
>           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>           RX packets:60850 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>           TX packets:59161 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
>           RX bytes:4882955 (4.6 MiB)  TX bytes:4708423 (4.4 MiB)
>           Interrupt:4
>
> eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:18:F8:E6:2E:38
>           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>           RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>           TX packets:16761 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
>           RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:5413803 (5.1 MiB)
>           Interrupt:5
>
> lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
>           inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
>           UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
>           RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>           TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
>           RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
>
> root at OpenWrt:~# iwconfig
> lo        no wireless extensions.
>
> eth0      no wireless extensions.
>
> eth1      no wireless extensions.
>
> br-lan    no wireless extensions.
>
> root at OpenWrt:~#