Raspberry PI WiFi Router (hostapd)
Check WLAN drivers Check that your Pi sees your USB WiFi dongle lsusb If it is a Realtek chipset RTL8192EU, you will see something like: Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0bda:818b Realtek Semiconductor Corp. the 818b indicates the RTL8192EU chipset. Unfortunately this chipset is currently not 'officially' supported by Rasbian, but MrEngman over at raspberrypi.org maintains a good library of drivers (https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=127214). First be sure of the kernel version you are running: uname -a resulted, for me in, 4.4.13-v7+ #894 So i grabbed the driver and installed it with: wget https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/80256631/8192eu-4.4.13-v7-894.tar.gz tar xzf 8192eu-4.4.13-v7-894.tar.gz sudo ./install.sh sudo apt-get install hostapd Set up wlan0 for static IP If you happen to have wlan0 active because you set it up, run sudo ifdown wlan0 Next we will set up the…