On Monday, December 31, 2012 03:34:38 Pau Koning wrote:
I am running LXC (SID) under Debian SID and the current git version of batman-adv (v3.7-rc7-1325-gaf5d4f7) +batctl (v2012.4.0-30-ga395164). But it fails to add any of my interfaces and non-batman-adv interfaces can be created without problems
# ip link 13: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UP mode DEFAULT qlen 1000 link/ether 00:ff:aa:00:00:01 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff 15: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 16436 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN mode DEFAULT link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00 # batctl if add eth0 Error - can't open file '/sys/class/net/eth0/batman_adv/mesh_iface': Read-only file system
Did you check your kernel log messages ? I'd expect batman-adv to print something there in case of an error.
Cheers, Marek