MANET Manager Setup - ProjectSPAN/android-manet-manager GitHub Wiki

Setup

Requirements
-Root access
-Kernel which supports wireless extensions (wext)
-Wireless device driver which supports ad-hoc mode (Broadcom works well)

Before enabling Ad-Hoc mode:

1. Choose a unique User Identifier for each device in the mesh network.
2. Choose a unique IP Address for each device in the mesh network.

If that doesn't work, check out the troubleshooting page here.