[WLANware] WLC_SET_BSSID in adhoc mode on Broadcom

[Alexander Morlang]

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Mitar schrieb:
> 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 openwrt team is working on that issue and promised to release a fix RSN.

> 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
> 
> 
> Mitar

Alex
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