Thank you very much, this problem also occured with supported cards.
I solved this problem with both broadcom and intel wireless cards.
I deactivated the physical interface first before using mesh interfaces
and no more error message.
However, since you mentionned that non of Intel card support mesh, now I
only use broadcom wireless cards for testing.
I followed the howto http://www.open80211s.org/trac/wiki/HOWTO
but things did not work as expected.
my broadcom wireless cards
"
card: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306
driver: b43legacy
"
Here are commands for all my pcs except mesh interface name and ip which
are different thereby i replace them here by X.
"
Killall NetworkManager
iw dev wlan0 interface add meshX type mp mesh_id mymesh
ifconfig wlan0 down
iwconfig meshX mode Ad-hoc
ifconfig meshX up
iwconfig meshX channel 2.462G
ifconfig meshX inet 192.168.1.X netmask 255.255.255.0
"
However, with "iw dev meshX station dump" in all experiement machines,
nothing displayed on the screen as a result. I waited and no route
constructed between them. Thus, I can not ping any mesh neighbors.
I would like to know ur suggestion? what is missing or...?
Thank,
Thierry
Andrey Yurovsky wrote:
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 2:21 PM, Johannes Berg
<johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Thu, 2009-01-22 at 16:19 +0100, Chanthearith HUON wrote:
This wireless card is not listed
in http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Devices
<http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Devices>
but the driver is in the
list http://linuxwireless.org/en/developers/Documentation/mac80211#mac80211drivers
<http://linuxwireless.org/en/developers/Documentation/mac80211#mac80211drivers>
But it's listed here:
http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers
-- as not supporting mesh.
The OS is ubuntu Intrepid Ibex 8.10 with kernel 2.6.27-9-generic
After creating new interface for mesh "iw dev wlan0 interface add mesh
type mp mesh_id 100". I turned the mesh interface up by "ifconfig mesh up".
I got following error message
" SIOCSIFFLAGS: Name not unique on network "
That's strange, it should not have allowed you to add the interface in
the first place. But then, you're using an ancient kernel anyway...
johannes
That's indeed strange: the iwl3945 (along with the other Intel cards)
definitely doesn't support mesh but I was able to add an interface as
well on my Ubuntu box (2.6.27-9). I think the reason is that iwlwifi
doesn't explicitly test for interfaces it actually supports:
static int iwl3945_mac_add_interface(struct ieee80211_hw *hw,
struct ieee80211_if_init_conf *conf)
{
struct iwl_priv *priv = hw->priv;
unsigned long flags;
IWL_DEBUG_MAC80211("enter: type %d\n", conf->type);
if (priv->vif) {
IWL_DEBUG_MAC80211("leave - vif != NULL\n");
return -EOPNOTSUPP;
}
<snip>
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