Wet54g

Intro

WET54G is a ethernet-wireless bridge.

I was a fan of the older WET11 but now that I use exclusively WPA on my network, I bought a WET54G.
If you wonder why I don't want to hear about WEP anymore, check my presentations in the Security Resources page.
This device supports WPA and WPA2 and exists since quite a while but curiously is quite hard to find.

Installation

Was a nightmare!

• Not because I did it exclusively from Linux, without using the Windows wizard
• Not because I had to find the static IP manually, it took me 20secs:
  • fping -g 192.168.0.0/23 -a 2>/dev/null
  • This gives 192.168.1.226
• Not because I had to configure my wired interface on the laptop with an IP of the same range as my Wi-Fi network, also in 192.168.1.x, it's easy to deal with such situation:
  • ping -I eth0 192.168.1.226
  • route add -host 192.168.1.226 eth0
• Not because I had to find the login/passwd, it took me 10secs:
  • admin/admin (very hard, I was used of admin without password...)
• Not because I never managed to go back to the default settings with the reset button (with fw2.03, didn't try with fw2.07), no matter if I keep it pressed when booting or whatever, beware!

But because a bug in the firmware caused the stuff to crash once it found my WPA Wi-Fi network.
So to continue