On Sunday, 24 February 2019 21:48:18 CET umut deniz wrote:
> my current platform is ti's beagleboneblack wireless board running openwrt
> distribution (the required bbbw dtb and wl1835 driver firmware applied) with
> batman enabled and configured. with this high level description of the
> components i am able to build a mesh network 6 nodes (i.e. bbbw cards) but as
> soon as i introduce a 7th card into the network batman mesh becomes unresponsive
> as the last seen times start to increase and finally, after 200 seconds all the
> nodes drops from the originator and neighbor tables which could be inspected
> with < :#batctl o> and < :#batctl n> commands respectively. all the cards are on
> the same table and well powered.
[...]
> i researched for a while for the cause with no avail. i would appreciate any
> kind of help to point me to the right direction to solve this.

Please don't use things like wl1835 when building larger meshes. It is known 
that these kind of  devices only support a very limited amount of peers and 
are most of the time only (more or less) stable in management mode (client).
And afaik, the wlcore driver (like other TI wirelss drivers) is also orphaned.

If you're wifi link/driver doesn't work, batman-adv can also do nothing to fix 
it.

Rule of thumb: If it is a USB/SDIO wifi device, start waving your hands in the 
air, scream and run away. This strategy is also helpful in other wifi related
situations.

Kind regards,
	Sven