I'm working on a project with a local group that involves running a bunch of systems in Ad-Hoc mode to form a mesh network. I was hoping to join my daily driver to the mesh, but I'm not seeing any way to get Ad-Hoc/IBSS mode enabled on athn(4) or any of the USB (urtw, urtnw, run) WiFi adapters I have kicking around.
Checking man pages of the wifi drivers and ifmedia(4), It looks like the support just isn't there. If that's the case, I'll pursue another route. I'm hoping I'm just missing something obvious. Ideas? ifconfig athn0 media: athn0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 lladdr 00:26:4d:c3:a6:b0 priority: 4 groups: wlan media: IEEE802.11 autoselect (DS1 mode 11g) status: no network ieee80211: nwid HiR wpakey <not displayed> wpaprotos wpa1,wpa2 wpaakms psk wpaciphers tkip,ccmp wpagroupcipher tkip supported media: media autoselect media autoselect mediaopt hostap media autoselect mediaopt monitor media autoselect mode 11b media autoselect mode 11b mediaopt hostap media autoselect mode 11b mediaopt monitor media autoselect mode 11g media autoselect mode 11g mediaopt hostap media autoselect mode 11g mediaopt monitor dmesg: OpenBSD 5.9 (GENERIC.MP) #1616: Fri Feb 26 01:28:13 MST 2016 dera...@i386.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC.MP cpu0: Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU N455 @ 1.66GHz ("GenuineIntel" 686-class) 1.67 GHz cpu0: FPU,V86,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,CFLUSH,DS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE,NXE,LONG,SSE3,DTES64,MWAIT,DS-CPL,EST,TM2,SSSE3,CX16,xTPR,PDCM,MOVBE,LAHF,PERF,SENSOR real mem = 2136285184 (2037MB) avail mem = 2082795520 (1986MB) mpath0 at root scsibus0 at mpath0: 256 targets mainbus0 at root bios0 at mainbus0: date 06/03/10, BIOS32 rev. 0 @ 0xfdc30, SMBIOS rev. 2.5 @ 0xdc010 (21 entries) bios0: vendor TOSHIBA version "V1.70" date 06/03/2010 bios0: TOSHIBA TOSHIBA NB305 acpi0 at bios0: rev 2 acpi0: sleep states S0 S3 S4 S5 acpi0: tables DSDT FACP TCPA HPET MCFG SLIC APIC BOOT SSDT SSDT SSDT acpi0: wakeup devices EXP1(S4) EXP2(S4) PXS3(S4) EXP4(S4) PCIB(S3) USB1(S3) USB2(S0) USB3(S3) USB4(S0) EUSB(S3) acpitimer0 at acpi0: 3579545 Hz, 24 bits acpihpet0 at acpi0: 14318179 Hz acpimcfg0 at acpi0 addr 0xe0000000, bus 0-255 acpimadt0 at acpi0 addr 0xfee00000: PC-AT compat cpu0 at mainbus0: apid 0 (boot processor) mtrr: Pentium Pro MTRR support, 8 var ranges, 88 fixed ranges cpu0: apic clock running at 166MHz cpu0: mwait min=64, max=64, C-substates=0.2.2.0.2, IBE cpu1 at mainbus0: apid 1 (application processor) cpu1: Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU N455 @ 1.66GHz ("GenuineIntel" 686-class) 1.67 GHz cpu1: FPU,V86,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,CFLUSH,DS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE,NXE,LONG,SSE3,DTES64,MWAIT,DS-CPL,EST,TM2,SSSE3,CX16,xTPR,PDCM,MOVBE,LAHF,PERF,SENSOR ioapic0 at mainbus0: apid 2 pa 0xfec00000, version 20, 24 pins acpiprt0 at acpi0: bus 0 (PCI0) acpiprt1 at acpi0: bus 5 (EXP1) acpiprt2 at acpi0: bus 7 (EXP2) acpiprt3 at acpi0: bus 9 (EXP3) acpiprt4 at acpi0: bus -1 (EXP4) acpiprt5 at acpi0: bus 17 (PCIB) acpiec0 at acpi0 acpicpu0 at acpi0: !C3(100@100 mwait.3@0x30), !C2(500@20 mwait.1@0x10), C1(1000@1 mwait.1), PSS acpicpu1 at acpi0: !C3(100@100 mwait.3@0x30), !C2(500@20 mwait.1@0x10), C1(1000@1 mwait.1), PSS acpiac0 at acpi0: AC unit online acpibat0 at acpi0: BAT1 serial 41167 type Li-Ion oem "TOSHIBA" acpibtn0 at acpi0: LID0 acpibtn1 at acpi0: PWRB acpivideo0 at acpi0: IGD0 acpivout0 at acpivideo0: LCD_ bios0: ROM list: 0xc0000/0xda00! 0xce000/0x1000 0xdc000/0x4000! cpu0: Enhanced SpeedStep 1663 MHz: speeds: 1667, 1333, 1000 MHz pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0: configuration mode 1 (bios) 0:28:2: bridge mem address conflict 0xf0500000/0x100000 pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0 "Intel Pineview DMI" rev 0x00 inteldrm0 at pci0 dev 2 function 0 "Intel Pineview Video" rev 0x00 drm0 at inteldrm0 intagp0 at inteldrm0 agp0 at intagp0: aperture at 0xd0000000, size 0x10000000 inteldrm0: msi inteldrm0: 1024x600 wsdisplay0 at inteldrm0 mux 1: console (std, vt100 emulation) wsdisplay0: screen 1-5 added (std, vt100 emulation) "Intel Pineview Video" rev 0x00 at pci0 dev 2 function 1 not configured azalia0 at pci0 dev 27 function 0 "Intel 82801GB HD Audio" rev 0x02: msi azalia0: codecs: Realtek ALC272 audio0 at azalia0 ppb0 at pci0 dev 28 function 0 "Intel 82801GB PCIE" rev 0x02: apic 2 int 16 pci1 at ppb0 bus 5 ppb1 at pci0 dev 28 function 1 "Intel 82801GB PCIE" rev 0x02: apic 2 int 17 pci2 at ppb1 bus 7 athn0 at pci2 dev 0 function 0 "Atheros AR9285" rev 0x01: apic 2 int 17 athn0: AR9285 rev 2 (1T1R), ROM rev 14, address 00:26:4d:c3:a6:b0 ppb2 at pci0 dev 28 function 2 "Intel 82801GB PCIE" rev 0x02: apic 2 int 18 pci3 at ppb2 bus 9 9:0:0: mem address conflict 0xf0520000/0x1000 9:0:0: mem address conflict 0xf0510000/0x10000 re0 at pci3 dev 0 function 0 "Realtek 8101E" rev 0x02: RTL8102EL (0x2480), msi, address 88:ae:1d:46:a1:1d rlphy0 at re0 phy 7: RTL8201L 10/100 PHY, rev. 1 uhci0 at pci0 dev 29 function 0 "Intel 82801GB USB" rev 0x02: apic 2 int 23 uhci1 at pci0 dev 29 function 1 "Intel 82801GB USB" rev 0x02: apic 2 int 19 uhci2 at pci0 dev 29 function 2 "Intel 82801GB USB" rev 0x02: apic 2 int 18 uhci3 at pci0 dev 29 function 3 "Intel 82801GB USB" rev 0x02: apic 2 int 16 ehci0 at pci0 dev 29 function 7 "Intel 82801GB USB" rev 0x02: apic 2 int 23 usb0 at ehci0: USB revision 2.0 uhub0 at usb0 "Intel EHCI root hub" rev 2.00/1.00 addr 1 ppb3 at pci0 dev 30 function 0 "Intel 82801BAM Hub-to-PCI" rev 0xe2 pci4 at ppb3 bus 17 pcib0 at pci0 dev 31 function 0 "Intel NM10 LPC" rev 0x02 ahci0 at pci0 dev 31 function 2 "Intel 82801GR AHCI" rev 0x02: msi, AHCI 1.1 ahci0: port 0: 3.0Gb/s ahci0: PHY offline on port 1 ahci0: PHY offline on port 2 ahci0: PHY offline on port 3 scsibus1 at ahci0: 32 targets sd0 at scsibus1 targ 0 lun 0: <ATA, Hitachi HTS54502, PB2O> SCSI3 0/direct fixed naa.5000cca5f4d7c568 sd0: 238475MB, 512 bytes/sector, 488397168 sectors ichiic0 at pci0 dev 31 function 3 "Intel 82801GB SMBus" rev 0x02: apic 2 int 19 iic0 at ichiic0 spdmem0 at iic0 addr 0x50: 2GB DDR3 SDRAM PC3-10600 SO-DIMM usb1 at uhci0: USB revision 1.0 uhub1 at usb1 "Intel UHCI root hub" rev 1.00/1.00 addr 1 usb2 at uhci1: USB revision 1.0 uhub2 at usb2 "Intel UHCI root hub" rev 1.00/1.00 addr 1 usb3 at uhci2: USB revision 1.0 uhub3 at usb3 "Intel UHCI root hub" rev 1.00/1.00 addr 1 usb4 at uhci3: USB revision 1.0 uhub4 at usb4 "Intel UHCI root hub" rev 1.00/1.00 addr 1 isa0 at pcib0 isadma0 at isa0 pckbc0 at isa0 port 0x60/5 irq 1 irq 12 pckbd0 at pckbc0 (kbd slot) wskbd0 at pckbd0: console keyboard, using wsdisplay0 pms0 at pckbc0 (aux slot) wsmouse0 at pms0 mux 0 pms0: Synaptics touchpad, firmware 7.2 pcppi0 at isa0 port 0x61 spkr0 at pcppi0 npx0 at isa0 port 0xf0/16: reported by CPUID; using exception 16 umass0 at uhub0 port 4 configuration 1 interface 0 "Generic USB2.0-CRW" rev 2.00/58.89 addr 2 umass0: using SCSI over Bulk-Only scsibus2 at umass0: 2 targets, initiator 0 sd1 at scsibus2 targ 1 lun 0: <Generic-, Multi-Card, 1.00> SCSI0 0/direct removable serial.0bda0158114173400000 uvideo0 at uhub0 port 8 configuration 1 interface 0 "Image Processor USB 2.0 PC Cam" rev 2.00/3.17 addr 3 video0 at uvideo0 vscsi0 at root scsibus3 at vscsi0: 256 targets softraid0 at root scsibus4 at softraid0: 256 targets root on sd0a (3c554f9a29b41b90.a) swap on sd0b dump on sd0b