On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 8:30 AM, Keir <keirlawson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> According to the 802.11s website it seems to claim that mesh
> networking is supported for ath5k devices in kernel 2.6.28, however,
> upon running ifconfig mesh0 up (having previously created the mesh
> device using iw) I get "SIOCSIFFLAGS: Operation not supported".
2.6.28 does not support mesh, at least from looking at the code,
ath5k_add_interface has:
switch (conf->type) {
case NL80211_IFTYPE_STATION:
case NL80211_IFTYPE_ADHOC:
case NL80211_IFTYPE_MONITOR:
sc->opmode = conf->type;
break;
default:
ret = -EOPNOTSUPP;
goto end;
}
It needs to at least also have NL80211_IFTYPE_MESH_POINT.
Mesh was enabled for 2.6.29 via b706e65b40417e03c2451bb3f92488f3736843fa,
so if you need it in 2.6.28 you can ask Greg to pick it up for stable.
--
Bob Copeland %% www.bobcopeland.com
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