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Subject: Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] batman over 802.15.4 .
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On Tuesday, November 20, 2012 12:25:34 Randy Graham wrote:
> I tried configuring these interfaces using 'batctl' but it complains
> that they are an unsupported type.
> 'iwconfig' reports these interfaces as having 'no wireless extensions'
> which I suspect is the issue.

The batman-adv kernel module checks for interface compatibility and only if an 
interface is suitable the corresponding /sys/class/net/$iface/batman-adv 
subfolder is created. It is that folder batctl tries to find in order to 
enable batman-adv on the given interface.

Cheers,
Marek