Some documents that might help you:

B.A.T.M.A.N. concepts

• Why starting B.A.T.M.A.N. - Why we started the B.A.T.M.A.N. project instead of continuing to work with OLSR
• B.A.T.M.A.N. Concept - get an overview about B.A.T.M.A.N.'s main concepts
• B.A.T.M.A.N. RFC Draft - a draft explaining the routing algorithm used in batman 0.2
• B.A.T.M.A.N. Status - read about the B.A.T.M.A.N. (June 2007)
• Vis output - working with the vis server output

Using the B.A.T.M.A.N. daemon (layer 3)

• Getting behind the routing vodoo - learn about the B.A.T.M.A.N. routing table manipulation
• InternetTuning - get information how B.A.T.M.A.N. handles internet access and what features it offers
• Understanding the debug output - documentation that helps you to understand the debug output
• Visualizing the network - this document explains how to get fancy graphics of the batman mesh
• Announcing networks - learn how to announce and / or revoke HNA on the fly
• B.A.T.M.A.N. online man page - read the current batman man page online
• B.A.T.M.A.N. HowTo - how to compile, install and run batman 0.2
• CCCamp 2007 talk (video) - Elektra and Marek explain the batman routing algorithm and features of batmand

Using B.A.T.M.A.N. advanced (layer 2)

• B.A.T.M.A.N. Advanced overview - information about the Layer 2 version of B.A.T.M.A.N.
• B.A.T.M.A.N. Advanced quick start guide - or: what the hell is bat0 for?
• Building B.A.T.M.A.N. Advanced with OpenWRT - how to download and configure your OpenWRT build environment to compile batman-adv
• B.A.T.M.A.N. Advanced on OpenWRT - a tutorial for using B.A.T.M.A.N. Advanced on OpenWRT
• Tweaking the B.A.T.M.A.N. Advanced behaviour - get an overview about the various settings batman-adv offers
• Understand your B.A.T.M.A.N. Advanced network - learn what network debug interfaces batman-adv offers
• Visualizing the 2nd layer - creating graphics of the layer 2 network and differences to the layer 3 vis output explained
• Using the batman git repos - this page explains how the git repository is structured and how to use it
• batctl online man page - read the current batctl man page online
• Wireless Kernel Tweaking (video) - Introduction to batman-advanced by Marek and Simon (also available at google video)
• B.A.T.M.A.N. Advanced troubleshooting - What if my batman-adv setup does not behave as expected ?
• Bonding and Interface Alternating - Use multiple links in batman-adv for fun and profit.

Misc

• How to get a coredump - documentation about coredump configuration & retrieval
• The OLSR story - this text explains the roots of B.A.T.M.A.N. (Dec 2006)
• Emulation HowTo - how to create an environment to emulate wireless setups using QEMU and VDE