I wanted to know if it is possible to set up a mesh network with my wrt1900acs. The iw list command does not indicate that the hardware is capable of 802.11s at all.
Supported interface modes:
* managed
* AP
* AP/VLAN
* monitor
Band 1:
Capabilities: 0x106f
RX LDPC
HT20/HT40
SM Power Save disabled
Supported interface modes:
* managed
* AP
* AP/VLAN
* monitor
Band 2:
Capabilities: 0x106f
RX LDPC
HT20/HT40
SM Power Save disabled
I don't want to believe that the almost flagship of Linksys can't do that.
The latest snapshot on my wrt3200acm seems to support mesh.. but I'm yet to be able to configure it...
Wiphy phy1
max # scan SSIDs: 4
max scan IEs length: 2242 bytes
max # sched scan SSIDs: 0
max # match sets: 0
max # scan plans: 1
max scan plan interval: -1
max scan plan iterations: 0
Retry short limit: 7
Retry long limit: 4
Coverage class: 0 (up to 0m)
Device supports T-DLS.
Available Antennas: TX 0 RX 0
Supported interface modes:
* managed
* AP
* AP/VLAN
* monitor
* mesh point
These are the command I ran.
root@LEDE:~# iw phy phy1 interface add mesh0 type mp mesh_id spiderweb
root@LEDE:~# ifconfig -a | grep mesh0
mesh0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 62:38:E0:BA:DC:B8
root@LEDE:~# ifconfig mesh0 up
ifconfig: SIOCSIFFLAGS: Operation not permitted