Troubleshooting wireless client-bridged networks between two DD-WRT routers?

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Published on 2012-03-26T21:34:51Z Indexed on 2012/03/26 23:33 UTC
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I recently purchased a Buffalo N600 wireless router which came with DD-WRT pre-installed. I want to take my old wireless router a Linksys WRT54GL, also with DD-WRT pre-installed, and use it as a wireless bridge for my HTPC and Blu-Ray Player in the other room. I other words, I'm trying to connect to WIRED networks via the wireless on the routers.

I followed eactly the instruction from DD-WRT's manual for 'Client Bridged' however I'm still not able to connect to two routers correctly, when the encryption is enabled (WPA2-Personal Mixed) however I am able to connect the two routers when there is NO encryption.

I've checked, double checked, and triple checked that EVERYTHING is the same on BOTH routers:

Routers 1 & 2

Encryption: WPA2-Personal Mixed

Wireless Mode: G-Only

Wireless Channel: 6

Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0

Subnet: 192.168.1.0/254

SSID: Krono$

Primary Router #1 (Buffalo N600)

IP Address: 192.168.1.1

Firewall: Enables w/ defaults

DCHP: Enabled as DHCP Server

Secondary Router #2 (Linksys WRT54GL)

IP Address: 192.168.1.2

Firewall: Disabled as per DD-WRT instructions

I'm looking for any configurations that I may have missed, or settings that may need to happen in order for this work.

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