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Post #1

Allen626

10 Sep 2007, 02:26

I have multiple AP's around me with the same SSID. But I only want to connect to one that has a particular BSSID. Everytime I add the option bssid 'XXXXXXXXXX' it just ignores it and connects to the SSID of the most powerful AP.

My kernal is 2.6.22.1 (running legends pre4.5)

My /etc/config/wireless :

config wifi-iface
        option device   wifi0
        option network  wan
        option mode     sta



        option ssid     SSIDHERE
        option bssid    'FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF'
        option nosbeacon 1
        option hidden   0
        option txpower  18
#       option bgscan   0
        option encryption       none
        #ENCRYKEY
        #WEPKEYONE
        #WEPKEYTWO
        #WEPKEYTHREE
        #WEPKEYFOUR
        #RADIUSADDR
  #RADIUSPORT

This was in the docs for wireless (http://downloads.openwrt.org/kamikaze/d … 110001.2.2)

Options for the wifi-iface:

    * network
      Selects the interface section from /etc/config/network to be used with this interface
    * device
      Set the wifi device name.
    * mode
      Operating mode:
          o ap
            Access point mode
          o sta
            Client mode
          o adhoc
            Ad-Hoc mode
          o wds
            WDS point-to-point link 
    * ssid Set the SSID to be used on the wifi device.
    * bssid Set the BSSID address to be used for wds to set the mac address of the other wds unit.

Does that mean you can't use option bssid with client mode? I don't want to create a WDS link.

Post #2

Allen626

17 Sep 2007, 22:40

Anyone have any info on this? I still have no idea what to do. :\

Post #3

Allen626

20 Sep 2007, 19:17

thanks to some help in the dd-wrt forums i figured out a solution.

iwconfig ath0 ap {mac here}