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I have a debian/ubuntu boards that I connect them via an ad-hoc network with the following settings

board:~# cat /etc/network/interfaces
auto wlan0
iface wlan0 inet static
        address 10.0.0.2
        netmask 255.255.255.0
        wpa-driver nl80211
        wpa-conf /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf

board:~# cat /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
# IBSS/ad-hoc network with WPA-None/TKIP.
ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
ap_scan=1

network={
        ssid="adhoc_test"
        mode=1
        frequency=2412
        proto=WPA
        key_mgmt=WPA-NONE
        pairwise=NONE
        group=TKIP
        psk="abcdefgh"
        bssid=F8:D1:11:52:0C:4E
}

These configurations creates an ad-hoc wlan, however, the nodes often gets different cell ID so that they cannot communicate with each other. To prevent it I added bssid=F8:D1:11:52:0C:4E line, however, no node get this predefined cell ID when they get the cell ID.

My question is that how can I prevent nodes to get different cell IDs? why bssid line does not work in the ad-hoc mode?

P.S. I tried these settings on ubuntu and debian dist. that have 3.2 and 3.4 kernels. wpa_supplicant versions that I used were 0.7, 1.0, and 2.0 all did not work. For the chipset, I am using Atheros AR9271 chipset for the wifi module.

Answer 1

the problem was that previous versions of wpa_supplicant does not support the bssid, installing wpa_Supplicant 2.0 solved the problem!

Answer 2

Use ap_scan=2 and remove the bssid= line from the configuration.

Answer 3

I answered same question at https://superuser.com/questions/552935/while-using-ad-hoc-networking-how-to-i-force-nodes-to-use-the-same-cell-ids-bs/569860#569860

Simple version: after ad-hoc configuration:

sudo iwconfig ath0 ap 11:22:33:44:55:66