Hi Santiago,
On Friday 06 November 2015 14:02:01 Santiago Álvarez Álvarez wrote:
Hi everybody, I've been working for some time in testing batman-adv protocol with several network topologies, and different network communications. Right now, I'm trying to build a batman mesh network over 5GHz wireless modules. However, I'm getting errors when trying to configure the module to use one of the 5 GHz channels.
I'm using a module with Ralink RT5572N chipset. Searching in internet, I've read a few comments suggesting that it's not possible to configure a 5ghz module in ad-hoc mode due to some kind of regulatory reasons.
Any of you have managed to get batman-adv working over a 5 ghz wireless network?
yes, batman-adv on 5 GHz works for us.
There are regulatory limitations for the higher 5GHz channels, but channel 36-48 should have no restrictions for ad-hoc use - if your chip/driver supports it.
I would suggest to first look into getting Ad-Hoc mode working without batman- adv before continuing any further. You might need other sticks, but there are definitely USB chips out there supporting Ad-Hoc (you may want to check out ath9k_htc based ones).
Cheers, Simon