Comments on: AirTunes, AirPort Express, and the WRT54G

By: Ryan

Ryan — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 14:22:26 +0000

Roman, it would change only if your network card was replaced or changed, as the MAC address is specific to network hardware.

By: roman@wlan

roman@wlan — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 13:12:51 +0000

Does my mac adresse change if I upgrade my computer with some other hardware? For example change the graphic card?

By: Anders Heie

Anders Heie — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 08:11:35 +0000

Thanks for the good article. I found that with the latest firmware for WRT54GS and Airport Express, my own successful setup differs a little from yours. Specifically most of my problems had to do with Firewalls and Anti-Virus programs. You can find my full solution here:
http://www.andersheie.com/?p=102

Hope this helps.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 17:34:45 +0000

Have never tried anything like that, although I can’t see why the Sitecom wouldn’t be able to act as a client of the Express, and then pass that connection off to the ethernet clients. Good luck!

By: Eugenio

Eugenio — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 11:18:24 +0000

I am getting crazy trying to bridge an Airport Express (last generation, 7.5 version) with a Sitecom WL-183, the Airport Express being the master (192.168.0.1), to use the four ethernet ports of the Sitecom in another room.
Do you have ever tried this kind of connection?
Do you have any recommendations?
Thank you very much, in advance.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 00:54:43 +0000

Hey much thanks on these instructions. While a tad out of date, I’m able to use my AE as an adapter for my DishPVR.

By: Frank Petrallo

Frank Petrallo — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 17:24:13 +0000

The LInk to the WRT54G Direct Firmware does not work…

By: Dominik Schmid

Dominik Schmid — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 19:21:56 +0000

Sorry if I double post but my previous wording triggered the moderation mode. Here goes:

Hey Ryan, chiming in again. You might want to update your guide to reflect the new situation with the N version of the Express. I finally figured it out, however there is no logic to the solution:

- Set up the Express N as stated above.
- Make sure to run it in b/g compatible mode. I’m not certain if the “n (b/g comp)” mode also works.
- Make also sure to enter the WEP key with a prepended $ sign.
- Now the weird part: In your WRT54G setup you have to add the LAN MAC address of you Express instead of the WLAN one. I’ve currently entered both of them so I’m not sure about the effect of leaving away the WLAN one.

Voilà!

When I find time I’ll dig further into this and post more findings. For now I won’t touch the **** thing anymore since I already spent too much time figuring this hack out.

By: Dominik Schmid

Dominik Schmid — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 19:01:09 +0000

Hi Ryan

just to let you and everybody here know, I’ve successfully set up a WDS some time ago using the Express G version. I ordered the new Airport Express N the day it became available and have since unsuccessfully tried to integrate it into the WDS network.

Can anyone confirm this?

By: lulu

lulu — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 07:42:55 +0000

perfect !
i fiddled around for two days – and this is just working !

linksys wrt54g v2 airport EXTREME BASETATION

Internet is working on LAN and WLan
ah btw – for the mac adress of the basestaion i used the lan number ..

thank you, you saved my day