need help

[Moritz Grauel]

Hello,

I am a student at the Humboldt University Berlin, Germany. I am  
trying to get 802.11s running in our wireless testbed, but I am  
experiencing a few problems.

Our testbed consists of mipsel based netgear routers with atheros  
AR5213A based wifi-cards. I had no trouble compiling the drivers and  
the userspace tools.

I can create mesh-devices, but the devices seem inactive. I am trying  
the following (based on the todo) on six different nodes, that can  
all see each other:

$ #create device
$ iw dev wmaster0 interface add mesh type mp mesh_id 42

$ ifconfig -a | grep mesh
mesh      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:0F:B5:97:37:5C

$ #set channel
$ /usr/sbin/iwconfig mesh channel 1

$ # assign ip
$ ifconfig mesh 10.0.0.63

$ iw dev mesh station dump

$ ifconfig mesh up

$ iw dev mesh station dump

It seems, that the devices are not sending anything. But I have no  
idea why. dmesg does not show anything. If I create a monitor device  
with iw, it receives lots of packets - the mesh-devices receive nothing.

If I try to create mpath next_hops, I get an error:

$ iw dev mesh mpath set 00:0F:B5:97:36:54 next_hop 00:0F:B5:97:36:53
nl80211 error -2


Can someone please give me any advice or tips, how to get 802.11s  
working? I have no clue, what I am doing wrong and I need help.

Many thanks!

Regards,

Moritz Grauel