Hi, > Thanks for the information. At least now I have some background > to work on - I already have several rt73 USB dongles, some notebooks > with Atheros, some OpenMokos (which have atheros chipsets) and a few > Nokia N810 tablets (which have a prism chipset).
although the Openmoko Freerunner has an Atheros chip inside it does not use the madiwifi driver (this is the AR6001 mobile chip, in case you wonder). > And they mentioned about some intermediate mode, called > Pseudo-IBSS or AHdemo mode, which allows a device to set a static > BSSID and it is supported by some drivers. I suppose we are talking > about the same thing here, just not giving any names (?). AHdemo is not the same as setting the BSSID in ad-hoc mode manually. As mentioned on the page you linked to the AHdemo mode does not send any beacons. Whereas the ad-hoc mode sends beacons with a fixed BSSID. Not sending beacons has certain side effects: - your network will appear being "invisible" (the normal network manager wont show it) - you have to manually configure the connection speed and other stuff as the usual autonegotiation is using the beacons for that - you will have collisions (might lead to decreased performance) - driver compat problems (only a few drivers support this mode) Nevertheless, it will fix your cell split problem. :-) > When you mentioned your EEE PC, which uses an Atheros chipset, > did you also had to set a static BSSID to the same used in the mesh > network you use? I think EEE PC uses the madwifi driver?! If so you can set the BSSID statically. Regards, Marek
