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Questions tagged [hostapd]

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Why is hostapd masked after installation?

My question is somehow related to this question: hostapd doesent work anymore I have a fresh Raspbian Stretch system and then install hostapd via sudo apt-get install hostapd there are no error messages during installation, but afterwards if I want…
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How to configure hostapd for a 5Ghz network

https://github.com/Phoenix1747/RouteryPi contains instructions for using a Rasberry Pi as a wireless router for 2.4Ghz networks. How can I change this to get 5Ghz? I tried to change hw_mode to ac, but that doesn't seem to work. Where can I get…
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Rpi4 with Buster wpa_supplicant fails to connect to hostapd network hosted on Ubuntu laptop

I am attempting to connect a Rpi4 to an AP running on my laptop, but it won't connect. I don't see any obvious problems (to me) in wpa_supplicant or other config files. I have run wpa_supplicant in debug mode, but don't understand most of the…
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How to use AP and Managed wifi?

How can I use wifi connections as an access point while at the same time connecting to an existing wifi network ? My experiment: sudo iw dev wlan0 interface add uap0 type __ap service dnsmasq restart sysctl net.ipv4.ip_forward=1 sudo hostapd…
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Hosted based wifi hotspot works, but BSSID keeps changing - rPi 4, Raspian

Admittedly, I'm torn between posting this in SuperUser or ServerFault, so opinions of where this should go are welcome. I have a hotspot set up on my Raspberry Pi 4, running Raspian. I used hostapd to set it up, following the guide from the Pi…
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hostapd problems while setting up Pi 4 as Access Point

First of all i want to say that i'm new to all of this, so please dont hate me if the answer to my problem seemed obvious to you. I just tried to follow this tutorial to set up my Pi 4 as an Access Point. I have the newest version of Raspbian…
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hostapd AP over both wlan0 and eth1

My hardware setup is currently: Router -> RPi (eth0) -> RPi (wlan0) -> subnet for my devices My desired setup is: Router -> RPi (eth0) -> RPi (wlan0 + eth1) -> subnet for my devices My setup: The RPi access point creates a new subnet with hostapd…
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Use MAC address acls with hostapd

I am using hostapd to turn my pi into a wireless access point, I want to implement a blacklist to block certain device from connecting to the network. I should be able to do this at a MAC address level by including the following lines in the…
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OnionPi - No internet connection after adding Iptables rules

I need some help or advices since I've not know what could I do to fix this issue. I've built an onion pi following the adafruit tutorial. This basicly is a wifi hotspot that routes all traffic through tor network using a wifi dongle and hostapd,…
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Pi4 wifi repeater at 2.4Ghz

I'd like to use my Pi4 as a wifi repeater for some home automation devices which only accept 2.4GHz networks. I've successfully set up the pi as a wifi repeater, and I'm able to connect to the network from my phone. However, even though I tried to…
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Wifi Repeater – Set Interface down by Default (dhcpcd)

I use a RPI 1 as wifi repeater with two wireless dongles. I configured it using hostapd and dnsmasq. I want the pi only to be connected to the internet if there is somebody connected to my access point. So I wrote this…
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What is Hostapd interworking? How to use it?

I am very excited to use the interworking functionality of hostapd! I aim to do a network redirection once a client connects to my RPI access point. I am following this tutorial for RPI AP. In the hostapd reference The Interworking section contains…
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Raspberry Pi 3b+ as a wireless access point: nl80211 driver initialization failed

I'm trying to set up a Raspberry Pi 3b+ (running Raspbian Stretch) as a wireless access point (using the built-in wireless interface) following the official documentation. After setting up /etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf and running hostapd -d…
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hostapd don't start at boot

I spend the whole day to understand how to use the Raspberry (1 B+) as access point with the awus036nha with scratch, following this guide, Setting up a Raspberry Pi as an access point in a standalone network (NAT), but can't start hostapd after…
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Unable to configure Raspberry pi 3 B+ as a 5Ghz AP using 802.11ac in India

I have been trying to configure my Raspberry pi 3 B+ as a 5Ghz access point but I'm unable to do so. Here is my hostapd config: country_code=IN ieee80211d=1…
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