Help to set a Mesh network

[Francesco]

Try first to delete wireless interface wlanXX (see XX number with iwconfig)
, then create new mesh interface, and bring it up.
That works for me.

On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 10:27 AM, Cristian Nasuti <nasuti.cristian at gmail.com
> wrote:

> 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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Francesco Cappuccio
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