[manchesterwireless] Using WRT54GS as access point

[G.W. Haywood]

Hi Harry,

On Thu, 25 Aug 2005, Harry Moyes wrote:

> On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 11:36 +0100, G.W. Haywood wrote:
> >
> > Has anyone used the WRT54GS (running OpenWRT) as an access point with
> > any of the PCI/PCMCIA wireless cards in Linux clients?
>
> not tried recently. Have all the pieces, may get a chance to try it.

Eureka!  I think.  I had set wl0_ssid but not wl0_ap_ssid.  Works now.
I need to check that nothing else which I've changed might affect it,
but I'm pretty sure that was the problem.

If there's one thing I'd criticize in OpenWRT it's that it seems there
are many, many unused variables cluttering up the NVRAM.  When you're
trying to get a setup working it's very time-consuming trying to work
out which ones to set and which to ignore.

AFAICT wl0_ap_ssid isn't mentioned in the OpenWRT documentation.  In a
full text search on the Wiki this morning there were seven hits for
wl0_ssid and none at all for wl0_ap_ssid.

73,
Ged.