There is no support in the Wl18xx Wi-Fi device on the BBBW, neither in the Linux driver nor the actual device firmware. If you want ad-hoc you would need to use a USB dongle with a Wi-Fi that does support ad-hoc, but then you might as well use a BBB for that.
There is low level support for TI's 802.11s mesh implementation but as far as I know it does not work out of the box on a Debian package. See this thread from a couple of months ago for details https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/beagleboard/mesh%7Csort:date/beagleboard/XS7cwEto_B4/otnvmgsFBQAJ Iain On Thu, 24 Jan 2019 at 17:33, M I Syed <smimrannaqv...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Thanks for the reply. I believe there would be some other driver that > supports ad-hoc mode? > > On Thursday, 24 January 2019 18:17:22 UTC+1, drhun...@gmail.com wrote: >> >> There is no support for ad-hoc mode in the wl18xx driver. It was dropped >> several years ago. >> Iain >> >> On Wednesday, January 23, 2019 at 2:25:21 PM UTC, M I Syed wrote: >>> >>> I am working on a project where I have to build a mesh (ad-hoc network). I >>> have few Beaglebone Black Wireless for that but I'm a newbie in the BBBW >>> world. However I cannot set the board to IBSS mode; I get "Operation not >>> supported (-95)" error. BATMAN and BABEL do not work if I just set the mode >>> to 'mesh'. I believe there would be some way to enable the IBSS mode. I'm >>> using Debian 9.5 2018-10-07 4GB SD IoT image. > > -- > For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the Google > Groups "BeagleBoard" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/beagleboard/GwaE9SWGJsk/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > beagleboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beagleboard/35a3b90b-37f2-494f-a39d-af200ec52df2%40googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- 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 beagleboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beagleboard/CALC81-seU%2B_kKBZn3TVCfcFzijk2JQiKhniNFnkXwwPoxJgE2A%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
