Hi, Does the Wi-Pi (2133900) support AP mode?

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I need Access Point mode so I can use the RPi as an WiFi access point. Some dongles support AP but some don't.

linuxengineer · Answer

I opensourced my repo that transforms a Pi 3B+ or Pi for into a WiFi Access Point:

Other than a Pi and an Ethernet cable, only other dependency is an Internet Connected router with a free port enabled for DHCP to uplink the Pi to. My repo "pi-ap" will largely work out-of-the-box without modifications. Might have to change the default subnet (192.168.0.0/28) however if it clashes with an existing subnet on your LAN. But otherwise, it's dead-simple to configure your Pi with this repo if you can edit a file with nano and execute "sudo ./install.sh"

HTH- Terrence

bobalexander · Answer

If you want to set the Raspberry Pi up as an access point you will need to set it up as a router (possibly using iptables/dnsmasq to NAT) and setup your WiFi card in infrastructure host mode (using hostapd etc).

You will probably also want to turn on DHCPd and configure it to handout IP addresses on the wireless LAN.

This looks like a good place to start:

https://learn.adafruit.com/setting-up-a-raspberry-pi-as-a-wifi-access-point/overview

Hi, Does the Wi-Pi (2133900) support AP mode?

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