OpenWRT 10.03 Backfire

Today I upgraded my three old Linksys WRT54G 2.2 WIFI APs to the latest OpenWRT release 10.03 codenamed Backfire, previously I was running Kamikaze 8.09. The upgrades went almost perfectly smooth.

First I tried the 2.6 kernel using the b43 driver apparently as I had read a successful report. However AP mode didn't work here.

Back on the latest 2.4.37.9 kernel I tried setting up multiple SSIDs on the same device in order to finally set up a guest access network. However it still doesn't work properly and just creates a non working interface.

wl0.1     IEEE 802.11-DS  ESSID:"guestaccess"  
          Mode:Master  Channel:1  Access Point: Not-Associated   
          Bit Rate:54 Mb/s   
          RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off

It seems like I have an old revision that doesn't support multiple SSIDs, for that you need corerev 9:

# dmesg | grep wl0
wl0: wlc_attach: chiprev 1 coreunit 0 corerev 7 cccap 0x4876a maccap 0x0 band 2.4G, phy_type 2 phy_rev 2 ana_rev 2
wl0: Broadcom BCM4320 802.11 Wireless Controller 4.150.10.5

So while the upgrade to Backfire, didn't really backfire it didn't get me much further either. In the future I might be looking into getting new WIFI hardware that will run OpenWRT an multiple SSIDs. Let me know if you have any recommenations that fits the above.