To add a little bit of background to this; There are several posts on TI's e2e forum stating that ad-hoc mode is no longer supported. In TI's use cases ad-hoc was replaced by Wi-Fi Direct. http://e2e.ti.com/support/wireless-connectivity/wifi/f/968/t/367550
TI supported 802.11s meshing (http://open80211s.org/) in the last driver release family (R8.7) http://software-dl.ti.com/ecs/WiLink8/R8_7/exports/release_notes_R8_7.html I have used that in builds from the TI SDK in the past. However, in this post someone talks about getting the TI open80211s mesh working in a Debian based release http://e2e.ti.com/support/wireless-connectivity/wifi/f/968/t/635441 I'd never actually heard of BATMAN before these questions. A quick scan of the documentation suggested that it could also work using AP+STA or AP+AP modes which are standard modes for the Wilnk8. Iain On Monday, January 28, 2019 at 6:57:06 AM UTC, don_wrt wrote: > > Hello All, > > I have read a post that is "Beaglebone Black Wireless's Wilink8 driver > does not support the *ad-hoc* mode mesh networking anymore". That is > true? I think that Beaglebone black wireless cannot do below things, if it > does not support the ad-hoc mode; > > *BBBW cannot find the "best path" for routing packets in a mesh network > over multiple hops? > *How can be determined the effective number of hop count, if ad-hoc is not > supported? > *BBBW cannot do self-forming of topology when some nodes fall the non-line > of sight position? (it cannot change topology dynamically) > > If above functions are able to perform with BATMAN or OLSR only, without > support of ad-hoc mode? > > Best Regards, > > -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beagleboard/d82614f9-8529-4b2c-8a34-387111b19397%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
