Duet 0.8 tplink 702n config problems

[Northspire]

Hi
I am trying to configure my duet board for wifi with a tplink 702n router. I can get the router to connect to the wifi but I cannot connect to the duet. Any ideas?

[IMBoring25]

The 0.8 does not have WiFi and has to be connected over Ethernet cable. Thus the new version...Duet WiFi.

[DeltaCon]

I think Northspire is aiming at getting a router to interconnect between a wifi AP and the cabled Duet. Many more have done this but personally I have no experience with Duet 0.8. I do have experience with WiFi bridging. If it is a "normal" router, you will probably have problem. In most routers the wifi connection cannot be used as an uplink. Routers that do support that have usually a setting under the name "bridge". You best get a model that is specifically intended for this purpose, without DHCP server and DSL or external ethernet connection, because it does not have to translate from one network to another.

[Northspire]

exactly. I have A Linksys wifi router connected to the internet and I want to use the tplink 702n nano router in client mode to connect the printer to the network.

[dc42]

I had a similar setup working some time ago using the wr720n nano router. I had to connect a laptop to it with an Ethernet cable to set it up. AFAIR I configured it in client mode with auto DHCP. I configured the Duet to use DHCP.

[marcom]

I have a similar setup - Duet 0.85 with TPLink 802n.

- Log in to your TPLink admin console (at your TPLink's IP address)
- Change your Operation Mode to "Client"
- Make sure under "Wireless" > "Wireless settings" your router's name and MAC address are correct (for some reason this matters - I switched routers and lost connectivity once and this setting still had my old router's MAC address and changing it seemed to fix it). Also I have WDS disabled, but dunno if that matters or not.

My IP lines in config.g:
M552 P192.168.185.120 ; IP address (0 = use DHCP) - I use an assigned address so I can connect to it by IP if I have to.
M554 P192.168.185.1 ; This is my main router (not my TPLink - that one has a different address)
M553 P255.255.255.0

Hope this is helpful.