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

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

Hi,

thank you all for the valuable help.

It appears that the official drivers for those chipsets do not support 
mac80211 and I can't make virtual interfaces with them. So I had to take 
TP WR740N router, put OpenWrt + batman-adv on it and make it the entry 
point to the mesh network. That didn't go without problems, but at the 
end it worked.

BTW - the instructions on the web site about installing batman-adv on 
OpenWrt are outdated and didn't work for me. I have installed batman 
just doing - /opkg update && opkg install kmod-batman-adv/.

Best regards,
Panayot

On 11/21/2011 09:02 AM, Marek Lindner wrote:
> Hi,
>
>> The devices have either RTL8188SU or RTL8188CUS chipsets from Realtek.
>> Drivers can be found here -
>> http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/downloadsView.aspx?Langid=1&PNid=48&PFi
>> d=48&Level=5&Conn=4&DownTypeID=3&GetDown=false&Downloads=true#RTL8188SU
>> <http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/downloadsView.aspx?Langid=1&PNid=48&P
>> Fid=48&Level=5&Conn=4&DownTypeID=3&GetDown=false&Downloads=true#RTL8188SU>
>>
>> May be they are mac80211 compatible, but I am not sure. Can you give me
>> an example of creating a virtual interface so I can try?
> the keywords you want to search for are: multi VAP, multi SSID&  mac80211 iw
> A few links that came out of that search:
> http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers
> http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Documentation/iw
>
> I somehow doubt that the Realtek chip supports the mac80211 infrastructure.
> You might want to switch to the mac80211 driver for your chip. Not all chips
> support multi VAPs though.
>
> Note: This mailing list is about batman and not so much about how to setup /
> configure your wifi driver or what features it supports.
>
> I extended our FAQ with your question. Thanks for bringing it up.
>
> Cheers,
> Marek