[B.A.T.M.A.N.] Connecting non-batman nodes to a mesh network

[Panayot Daskalov <panayot.daskalov@gmail.com>]

Hi All,

I want to ask for your advice about a batman problem I am facing. I have 
a mesh network of custom build embedded Linux devices. The devices have 
only network one interface and this is the Wi-Fi that is used by batman. 
So far the mesh is running OK, but at some point I need to be able to 
connect with a laptop (non-Linux) to the network and access some of the 
devices via its IP address. I tried simply connecting to the adhoc 
network and setting a static IP to my laptop. I have managed to do that, 
but I can't access the nodes from the mesh.

I read the instruction for mixing with non-batman devices by bridging 
the bat0 interface with the "non-batman" interface, but as far as I 
understand that applies to systems with at least 2 network interfaces 
e.g one for batman nodes and one for the non-batman. So my question is - 
can I mix non-batman and batman nodes when I have only one network 
interface on the batman nodes? If yes, then how?

Thanks in advance.

Best regards,
Panayot

P.S
I am using batman-adv 2011.2.0, because I can't cross compile the latest 
version against the kernel I use on the devices - 2.6.28. Also I don't 
use batctl.