Hardware: WRT54GL
Coova Firmware: CoovaAP Firmware v1.0 beta.2

I really like your easy to use hotspot firmware but I am having a very strange bug that I need some help with. I get a whole bunch of log entries in my radius log that look like this.

Thu Nov 9 17:12:38 2006 : Auth: Login incorrect: [username/s\312\307\210\232{T\205q](}\233LI\\] (from client locationname 4 cli XX-XX-XX-XX-XX-XX)

I get this using the original hotspotlogin.cgi, a version rewritten with custom HTML and a version I wrote in PHP. All three UAM server login scripts produce the same results.

The odd thing is the userurl seems to change when this happens. For example, my home page is google. I open the browser and everything looks fine in the querystring, the userurl is still google. I try to login and it fails creating a log entry like the one above. The interesting thing is the userurl is now something comepletely different, in my case it became a toshiba phone home URL that my laptop sends to check for driver updates. When I logged in the second time it works but I am sent

In another example a user I was helping failed and created a log entry like above and then the second login works but they are taken to a windows update download of a .cab file.

I have verified by writing to a log file that the users are typing in the correct login and password.

On a side note I have reconfigured one of my other test routers to use openwrt whiterussion RC6 and installed the chill package from from the openwrt repository and it does not seem to have the same problem.

Any ideas?

I really want to use the coova AP firmware because it is so easy to setup the chillispot software and to backup the settings unlike the standard openwrt whiterussian RC6 with the chilli package installed. It also does not have the chilli-query feature which is extremely nice. I eagerly await a reply and hopefully you will have some insight into this problem. So far nobody on the chillispot forums has responded to my pleas for assisatance.