multiple SSID support (in BCM4318)

Larry Finger Larry.Finger at lwfinger.net
Sun May 6 11:02:16 EDT 2012


On 05/06/2012 01:29 AM, Tomáš Hnyk wrote:
> Hello all,
> are multiple SSID supported (especially on BCM4318)? I could not find the answer
> through googling.
>
> By tw way, on your page, you say "BCM4318 chipset: AP mode does not work because
> of packet loss in high transmission rates. Hard to debug & fix." IS it still
> true? It seems to me it works fine, but I have been trying it only for a while.
> Regards,
> Tomas

To my knowledge, there have been no fixes specific for the BCM4318 that were 
aimed at fixing the packet loss at high transmission rates; however, there have 
been a lot of fixes for b43. Perhaps one or more of them helped that problem. 
Your tests will likely tell.

As to the multiple SSID question, that will be a function of mac80211 and 
friends. Comment #3 of http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=24268 seems to 
have a prescription for using nl80211 to accomplish that. If that posting 
doesn't answer your question, direct further inquiries to 
linux-wireless at vger.kernel.org.

Larry



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