Re: Salvaging Unwire Portland

While in Portland I had a setup similar to this. I used an old pc  
loaded with debian and two nics plus two ap's.  It worked perfectly in  
providing the two separate networks. Now if I recall correctly, and  
its been awhile, werent there a bunch of old pc's Tom was storing?   
Also, wouldn't funding some cheaper ap's be a good use of the budget?  
Just my 2 cents.

Michael McGirr (mobile)

On Jul 31, 2007, at 10:56 AM, alan <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Tue, 31 Jul 2007, Russell Senior wrote:
>
>> Right now, afaik, multiple SSIDs aren't possible on the broadcom
>> radios in most access points.  They are coming with the new mac80211
>> stack and the reverse-engineered broadcom driver, but not there yet.
>> Again, afaik.  I believe it is possible with atheros radios, like
>> those in the WGT634U and Meraki, though I have yet to play with that.
>
> Be aware that there is a problem with some Broadcom chipsets and the
> mac80211 driver.
>
> The new driver needs the version 4 firmware.  Some versions of the  
> chipset
> do not have enough memory to load the version 4 firmware and are stuck
> with version 3.
>
> Even more fun is that you cannot tell which one is which by the pci  
> ids.
>
> I can get you a revision number of a chipset with the problem when I  
> have
> my laptop in front of me.
>
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