[WLANware] WLC_SET_BSSID in adhoc mode on Broadcom

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Hi!

I am participating in a community wifi network we are building in
Ljubljana, Slovenia. We are using OpenWrt Kamikaze 7.09 and we have
stumbled upon a problem we do not know how to solve. As you have much
more experience I am turning to this mailing list if anybody could
help us.

The problem is that it would appear that in Kamikaze code for forcing
BSSID in Ad-Hoc mode on Broadcom based devices has been removed in
Kamikaze. Do you know why is this so and whether it is possible to
override BSSID when in Ad-Hoc mode (since random BSSIDs tend to cause
mesh partitioning) somehow?

The "wlc" application doesn't appear to support this and doing it via
"iwconfig wl0 ap" does nothing - it seems that the new Broadcom driver
is simply ignoring WLC_SET_BSSID ioctls. Has anyone looked into this
and found a possible solution or at least a reason why this doesn't
work?

Best regards


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