D link wireless bridge

[DFZXA]

I can't get our driver station to detect our new wireless bridge. The steps I took for setting it up was just to go to http://dlinkap (I don't remember but something like that) and then I launched the wireless setup stuff while it was connected to the laptop of course. I have the switch set to auto and the bridge is in port 1 if that matters. Other than that everything works fine when the robot is on a wired connection.

[CodeMonkeyMatt]

Do you know about this site: http://www.usfirst.org/roboticsprogr....aspx?id=18530? I ask because I don't remember anything like "httyp://dlinkap"

If you haven't, I think that some specific documents that might help you are
How to Configure your cRIO (makes sure you're computer's IP is right)
How to Set Up your Driver Station
and How to Configure your Radio

[mswalker]

The D-link needs to be in AP mode to talk to the classmate in the lab. Bridge mode is used for competitions. This thread is helpful in talking about some setup issues: http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...ghlight=d-link

[Mark McLeod]

The directions are on the FIRST website that CodeMonkeyMatt pointed you to, not the D-Link website.

How To Configure Your Radio

[Jon Stratis]

Just one note to add: When you plug into the radio, you can go one of two ways to get to the website - either the IP address method in the document, or http://dlinkap. They'll both get you to the same place - D Link added a small bit of complexity to enable that on their devices to make everyone's lives easier (most people understand a web address like http://dlinkap, while they can be confused by an IP address).

[Mark McLeod]

Ah, I didn't know that and misunderstood.
Thanks for the shortcut!

Is there a corresponding "dlinkbr"?

[tomy]

make sure your laptops wireless ip is 10.xx.yy.50

xx.yy= team number

example 10.30.38.50

[SuperBK]

Do you have to set the ip address as fixed on the development laptop? Its not obtained via DHCP from the DLINK?

Do you have to set the classmate's wireless address too? Should it be set to 10.x.x.5 like last year?

Do you have to press the button on the dlink when trying to connect?

Thanks,
Brian

[Alan Anderson]

Originally Posted by SuperBK

Do you have to set the ip address as fixed on the development laptop? Its not obtained via DHCP from the DLINK?

If you don't have DHCP service enabled on the DAP, you'll have to set a static IP address on your development computer. It would probably be best to enable DHCP, telling it to give out addresses starting at 10.x.y.10 or so.

Do you have to set the classmate's wireless address too? Should it be set to 10.x.x.5 like last year?

The Driver Station app should take care of setting the address. Yes, 10.x.y.5 is correct.

Do you have to press the button on the dlink when trying to connect?

Never press the button. If it's anything like the older WGA, it's all about "easy" wireless security. You'll most likely end up with security enabled and an unknown WPA password. One of the first things we did was put a shield over the button so it doesn't get hit by accident.

[Chingbotics1]

Our team is having similar problems in that we're having trouble connecting to our D-Link router wirelessly, but the difference is that we cant even get into the router settings. We type in dlinkap as well as 192.168.0.50 and that hasn't been working either. We're not sure what we can really do at this point. We keep the settings on bridge generally, but it doesnt work under AP either. But when under AP and (very oddly) the router is connected to the internet, it is able to ping the cRIO, but not actually doing anything with it in the control station.

[DFZXA]

Ok we have everything working on our classmate computer now, but now I can't connect to it with a regular laptop. I need to so I can put the labview code on to the crio

[Alan Anderson]

If you can't get your programming computer to communicate with the other devices, perhaps its IP address is not set to match your network.

[DFZXA]

I followed the entire guide posted for frc and it seems as though my classmate is the only thing that can connect to it. I also tried putting the ethernet cord directly into port 1 and into the my laptop and the laptop won't detect the cRio now when it did before I put the dlink on there. I don't understand how those two even correlate.

[Mark McLeod]

If your laptop has multiple network cards (wireless, Ethernet) the wrong one could be setup. It could be trying to go out over the wireless when it should be using the Local LAN.

• If you are wiring directly turn off every NIC except for "Local LAN..."
• Change the Local LAN IP address/netmask to what they are supposed to be, or just make sure they are correct.

[DFZXA]

I disabled all of them except the lac and it detects the router, but when I hit run as start up in labview it just gives me the failed to connect to real time target error