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BTW - the instructions on the web site about installing batman-adv on OpenWrt are outdated and didn't work for me.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&... 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