On Tue, 2009-10-20 at 08:27 -0700, Karol Pucyński wrote: > I have IBSS network (based on ath5k cards). > With the same channel/essid set cards often can't "negotiate" the > same BSSID. Two nodes beside each other both create new IBSS networks > and they are not trying to merge. > Workaround: forcing BSSID with iw does work. > > Do you know what can be the reason of this problem? > > Tested on 2.6.31 kernel. May be related to my earlier problem 'ath5k > IBSS fixed rate'... Are you using compat-wireless? If not, then ignore this email. If you are using the latest wireless bits using compat-wireless then you may have run into this issue http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.wireless.general/41129 Reinette -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html