Ben Greear suggested to me that I ask for help in figuring out how to configure an adhoc/ibss based mesh. I haven't been able to find an example that's relevant.
(Well, I've been able to find an example on YouTube that dates from before https://github.com/openwrt-routing/packages/commit/54af5a209e0a0a75b5eb712c0... in which Sven revolutionized option proto batadv. It's not very helpful now, I think.)
My problem is that I have a bunch of wave-1 radios that, running under ath10k-ct (Ben Greear's firmware), can support mesh networking only in ibss mode (says Ben Greear). I can use the non-CT firmware's 802.11s implementation, but it's unreliable. I'm looking for a way around my still-growing number of self-diagnosis-and-reboot hacks that are necessary with nodes running the non-CT firmware.
I'm hoping that someone on this list is running batman-adv with ibss/adhoc mode with a recent version of OpenWRT and will provide me their appropriately-redacted working OpenWrt config files (/etc/config/{network|wireless} as an example of something that is known to work.
Steve Newcomb