Hi,
the problem semms to be found and very much trivial. the recent openWRT-release (or especially the ixp4xx-port ?!) as well as the rather old slackware10.2 comes _without_ policy-routing compiled into the kernel. figure this out ... an OS for embedded routers comes without advanced routing capabilities ... nothing i've expected. nevertheless batman should detect this and give a hint rather than trying to write to non-existent routing-tables.
this sounds odd. A check for policy routing seems to be a good idea but does anyone know how to check that ?
Regards, Marek