Linksys WAP11 and MacOS X ADSL setup notes

I setup my Linksys WAP11 tonight and have been sitting on the sofa blogging most of the evening. I thought I'd pull together the resources I used for setting up my WAP11.

First off I have a WAP11 ver2.2, the website is promoting the ver 2.6, but the UK market seems to be getting the 2.2. The support notes for the 2.2 are a bit buried, but here are the support notes for the WAP11 ver2.2. I found some interesting WAP 11 command line tools, this is from MacosXhints, the comments below the article are worth reading. Also you need to be comfortable with unix software to go and play with these.

The SeattleWireless group have detailed notes on antenna and snmp firmware for the WAP11.

Finally, this is the procedure I used to get the WAP11 working with my ADSL setup, under MacOSX. I have a fixed IP ADSL line and use the 192.168.10.x subnet for my internal network. The WAP11 ships configured with 192.168.1.251 as its ip address, so I had to move the IP address to my 192.168.10.x subnet. Setup airport to use the 192.168.10.x subnet use 255.255.255.0 as the mask and set the 192.168.1.251 address as the gateway for the airport config. Then connect to the web interface of the WAP11 (password is admin and there is no username), you can change the ip address to the 192.168.10.251 network and now set the ip address of the WAP11 gateway to the IP address of the ADSL router on your internal network 192.168.1.100 in my case. When you save this config, you'll lose touch with the WAP11, as your airport card and the WAP11 are now on the 192.168.1.x and 192.168.10.x subnets respectively So change your airport config to use the original 192.168.1.x network settings, make sure that you give the correct gateway to the airport configuration, it should be the one for your adsl router You can now get back to the WAP11 and continue to configure it. One thing to note is that you must remember to type it the DNS addresses into the airport control panel, foxed me for about 5 minutes, when I forgot. Ping is your friend in this case, it will tell you what you can see. Essentially you move your airport configuration to match the WAP11 and then move it back again to your original network settings, not hard, but not obvious either. If you use DHCP then things should be a lot easier to setup. When I setup NoCatAuth I'll post similar notes then.