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From: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 18:06:25 +0800
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Subject: Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] hardware requirements for mesh
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Hi,

> Can those 2 routers be use in a mesh network so that laptops can
> connect to them and go on the net?  All the other mesh
> routers/repeaters I've seen can run in multiple modes.

they can be used in mesh but as you noticed the wifi cards are not able to open 
multiple wifi networks at the same time. If you want to offer managed networks 
for the laptops you need to find other solutions. Either you use Atheros based 
devices that can open multiple networks or you connect 2 devices (e.g. 
wrt54gl) via Ethernet (one opens the managed network and the other meshes in 
ad-hoc mode).

Regards,
Marek