WPA Key?

[Mark McLeod]

The new Rev A document has a better order of operations.
It shows both without & with Security set.
"with" gets a warning to put the same Passkey on your laptop, but leaves you to figure out how if you want to do that.

It puts the Competition settings at the end and notes that they are for reference only and the standard kiosk will do all the work at events. Remember, After the event to turn the D-Link security off when yiu switch it back o AP mode (or for you security buffs, resect the passkey).

I still advise my teams to leave the security off to simplify settings. They don't have a lot of network folks on the teams.

[Alan Anderson]

Originally Posted by DavidGitz

I'm pretty sure Chris was asking a rhetorical question. It was the question of the Driver Station talking to the bridge or the Driver Station talking to the Bridge in Access Point mode.

Originally Posted by Chris Hibner

Yes, what David said.

That's a very confusing set of words to string together. Access Point mode and Bridge mode are mutually exclusive. It's a little like asking about how to light the pilot on a dual-mode RV refrigerator when powering it from a battery instead of using propane.

Originally Posted by Chris Hibner

My point is this: when our students set up the radio as explained in the document, our driver station would not communicate with the robot (either in bridge mode OR access point mode). There are a number of missing steps in the documentation that were needed to get it to communicate.

Really? After we followed the instructions exactly as written, ours worked immediately (well, after giving it a minute to boot, anyway). What extra steps did you have to do?

[Chris Hibner]

Originally Posted by Alan Anderson

That's a very confusing set of words to string together. Access Point mode and Bridge mode are mutually exclusive. It's a little like asking about how to light the pilot on a dual-mode RV refrigerator when powering it from a battery instead of using propane.



Really? After we followed the instructions exactly as written, ours worked immediately (well, after giving it a minute to boot, anyway). What extra steps did you have to do?

Sorry for the confusion - I got used to calling the robot side radio "the bridge".

To get the wireless communication going, we had to logout of the Driver login, log in as Developer, set the WPA key, get the classmate to find the robot network, log out of Developer, then log back in as Driver.

[Alan Anderson]

Originally Posted by Chris Hibner

Sorry for the confusion - I got used to calling the robot side radio "the bridge".

Yeah, the WGA last year was only a bridge. The DAP this year is a full-blown router that can be switched between bridge and Access Point modes. I usually call it the "robot radio", but when I'm feeling especially pedantic I say "router".

To get the wireless communication going, we had to logout of the Driver login, log in as Developer, set the WPA key, get the classmate to find the robot network, log out of Developer, then log back in as Driver.

That suggests to me that you did more to the router than the instructions said to do. Specifically, you probably entered a WPA key when doing the Access Point configuration. The new setup document shows exactly how to do that if you want to, but it's not in the original instructions.

(I'm surprised that the Classmate didn't pop up a window asking for the key when it tried to connect to the Access Point, but it might just be my Macintosh background leading me to expect such helpful behavior. I don't have a lot of experience with Windows networking.)