Hi folks,
I'm looking for a way to have a single card act as an access point for standard 802.11 clients, and at the same time do mesh routing with other access points. I'm currently using Linksys WRT54g hardware with OpenWRT firmware.
I tried to put the Linksys in "ad-hoc" mode, but then my client (Powerbook G4, OS 10.3) doesn't recognize the network. With the linksys in "master" mode, the ESSID shows up on my client, but AFAIK, my Linksys will not be happy about seeing other nodes in master mode, with the same ESSID. Finally, if I use two wireless routers with two _different_ ESSID's, they won't be able to communicate for mesh routing.
Does anybody have any experience with this sort of thing? Why won't my client show the ESSID when I'm in ad-hoc mode?
- Jakob
