Hi Wayne,
thanks for the heads up, you were absolutely correct, I set the ssid and the protocol is running successfully now - a 'rookie' error on my part. Its still not associated with a cell, but for the current moment I don't see any problems with it, that way.
Kind Regards Dominic UCT,SA
On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 6:37 PM, Wayne Abroue plettpc@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 6:06 PM, Dominic Follett-Smith dominicfollett@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
I am having trouble running the batman protocol on my debian distro (2.6.32) on PC Engine's Alix boards. I am using CM9 pci cards, with ath5k driver from the compat-wireless-3.5 package. I can scan for networks, and view a survey dump using the iw tool. despite being able to start the daemon successfully, neither node can receive packets from one another. I set the mode to ad-hoc and channel to channel 7 on both alix boards. The following url is a link to my system profile on pastebin:
it includes (ifconfig, iwconfig, interfaces configuration, sample of running batman, dmesg for wireless interface wlan0 and modinfo for ath5k )
I can't figure out what I am doing wrong, I had perhaps naively assumed that passing a configured wireless interface would be enough, but I guess I have missed something important.
Help is always greatly appreciated.
Thanks Dominic UCT, SA
Would it work without a ESSID and cell ID?
wlan0 IEEE 802.11abg ESSID:off/any Mode:Ad-Hoc Frequency:2.442 GHz Cell: Not-Associated Tx-Power=20 dBm Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off Encryption key:off Power Management:off
Wayne