B.A.T.M.A.N. protocol for Ubuntu(Linux) Part-1

My current operating system is Ubuntu 12.10

And you need a Wi-Fi feature in your lap or pc in order to do this.

And internet connection.

First you started with this command.

apt-get update

Because you needed latest repositories for implement B.A.T.M.A.N. in Ubuntu environment.

apt-get install linux-headers-'*' 

And you need to install linux headers ,gcc ,g++.

apt-get install g++ gcc

Now download the B.A.T.M.A.N. source files from these links. There are two files you needed to be downloaded,

1. batman-adv ==> folder that contain B.A.T.M.A.N. protocol files.

2. batctl ==>a tool to control B.A.T.M.A.N.

After download, extract them in whatever the place you want. (But remember the place).

tar xzvf filename.tar.gz

Now go to batman-adv directory and type “make”. This will generate some files according to your running kernel. And check batman-adv.ko file is generated by that command. Because that’s the file we need.

After that go to batctl directory and type “make”. Now some files must create without any errors if you done everything correctly. And make sure batctl file is generated during the process.

Now you need to find out what kernel module is loded currently.So for that you need to type the following command.

uname –r

Now change you folder path to the current loaded kernel module folder. Which in my case is this.

cd  /usr/src/linux-headers-3.5.0-17-generic

Type “make xconfig”

And “make menuconfig”

And also “make oldconfig”

For those leave default values.

Now move into batman-adv folder and type this,

modprobe batman-adv

You can use “insmod batman-adv.ko” instead this command. But this command is much more advance than insmod command. So my recommend is to use modprobe command.

If this command compiled without any single errors you are doing good. But if you uncounted any errors. Please inform me.And I’ll help you.

You can check whether batman loaded or not using this command

dmesg

It reads a log and show them.if you can see “batman_adv:B.A.T.M.A.N. advanced 2013.1.0 (compatibility version 14) loaded. “Then you are ready to do next step.

Now B.A.T.M.A.N. is loaded .But it needed an interface to send/receive packets. So in my next post I’ll show how that’s going to do.so stay tuned.\m/