Mesh variant ------------ When using B.A.T.M.A.N the kernel module batman-adv and batctl are incompatible. To fix this you'll need a more recent version of batctl. sudo apt-get remove --purge batctl wget http://mirrors.kernel.org/ubuntu/pool/universe/b/batctl/batctl_2014.1.0-2_amd64.deb sudo dpkg -i batctl_2014.1.0-2_amd64.deb You can then test that ping works with: sudo batman ping