Ok, me being part of a Wireless group, the main focus for me grabbing a n800 was the price, and also the possibility to do easy remote logins with wireless access points (since I don't own a laptop this was a nice option)

Now the wireless access points for example has a hard set BSSID running in Ad-Hoc mode.

EG:

BSSID: 12:34:56:78:9A

when I scan for the wireless node, I can connect to it no worries with a static IP set in the connections manager, the anoying thing is there is no data going accross the interface, I decided to install wireless-tools to have a manual look at the settings: When the device tries to connect to the ad-hoc device it gets the BSSID wrong.

the BSSID it should connect to is 12:34:56:78:9A
but it connects to 13:34:56:78:9A

it seems to just get 1 number or letter wrong.

I can set the wireless router to use this BSSID instead and automagic it works, in the real world I can't physically get hold of these devices to change the BSSID, and it seems to be rather strange that the device only gets one number or letter wrong each time it connects to the device.


So basically what im trying to say is when I connect to to an Ad-hoc device with a set BSSID that doesn't change, the nokia n800 tablet tries to connect but connects to the wrong BSSID making the connection usless.

I'm wondering if anyone else has had similar issues with Linksys WRT54G(L)'s at all, I haven't got another type of device to try this on atm or if its a bug thats been reported before, I haven't really been able to find anything on it.

make much sence ? I hope so



-Rip