Help to set a Mesh network

[Cristian Nasuti]

Hello, I'm trying to set up a mesh network for my thesis.

Currently I use:
- 1 desktop pc (also with wired link to the lab network) and 1 notebook (I
switched off WLAN and Bluetooth);
- both have a PCMCIA network card "Accton Technology Atheros AR5001X+" (use
ath5k driver);
- both have Ubuntu 9.04, kernel version 2.6.30-020630-generic, iw version
0.9.9, compat-wireless-2.6.30;

I try (hopefully correctly) all the operations for the configuration, like
this:

(this is for the desktop, but is similar for notebook)

$ sudo killall NetworkManager
$ sudo iw dev wlan2 interface add mesh2 type mp mesh_id mymesh
$ sudo ifconfig mesh2 192.168.2.2 up

when I do:
$ ping-c 2 192.168.2.3

I get:
PING 192.168.2.3 (192.168.2.3) 56(84) bytes of data.
>From 192.168.2.2 icmp_seq=1 Destination Host Unreachable
>From 192.168.2.2 icmp_seq=2 Destination Host Unreachable

Even worse if I run:
$ sudo iw dev mesh2 station dump

On the desktop I get no response :(

On the notebook I get:

Station 00:04:e2:9c:cc:89 (on mesh3)
    inactive time:    936472 ms
    rx bytes:    69765
    tx bytes:    30883
    signal:      -23 dBm
    tx bitrate:    1.0 MBit/s
    mesh llid:    0
    mesh plid:    0
    mesh plink:    LISTEN

Where I wrong? Can someone help me?

Thanks,

Cristian
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