[Olsr-users] BSSID Partitioning on Broadcom

[Craig]

Hi,

I am currently evaluating hardware for mesh nodes.  The nodes must have 
serial or USB ports. So far I've been testing with an Asus WL-500gP, a 
Routerboard RB133 and a Linksys WRT54G.

The routerboard has an atheros card while the other two are broadcom.  
The routerboard is only supported by the latest OpenWRT so I am running 
'kamikaze' on all of these devices with OLSR 0.5.5.

I was under the impression that the BSSID partitioning issue had been 
solved in 2006 but my two broadcom nodes seem to choose their BSSID (or 
cell as it appears in the output of iwconfig) from thin air while the 
atheros card just uses the one I have specified.

I know this is not a problem with OLSR but I am hoping people here will 
know if this problem still exists for broadcom or not.  Is it fixed in 
the freifunk firmware but not in openwrt kamikaze?  Is the best solution 
to avoid broadcom and use atheros cards only?

Thanks for your help,
Craig