I recently had a requirement for wireless access to function from approx 100 metres away inside a cement house. The the laptop’s wireless cards were not making the distance without significant packet loss.

I needed to deploy my WRT as a WPA wireless client and have PC’s attached to the WRT via the local switchport.

After running early versions of white russian for years back in the day without a drama, it was time for the new version of Kamikaze to be tested out.

I no longer had a web interface on the WRT so it had to be done via command line.

The broadcomm wireless card on the WRT does not work with the latest version of Kamikaze so there is a 2.4 kernel available for download which supplies the required kernel driver:

http://downloads.openwrt.org/kamikaze/8.09.1/brcm-2.4/

After uploading these to the device via SCP you flash the device as follows:

mtd -r write openwrt-brcm-2.4-squashfs.trx linux

The web GUI then makes the configuration of client mode a snap, after specifying the SSID and channel.

I was able to make out the ADSL link from 100 meters away with the WRT under a desk.