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14. Januar 2016 at 22:41 #17861

Ah OK, If you reboot now , check if accesspoint is working.
That look for the max2play SSID on your IOS or other devices

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14. Januar 2016 at 22:36 #17860

That looks ok for access-point installation….did you continue with rebooting and executing those commands?

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13. Januar 2016 at 16:06 #17827

Take your time, no hurry! And Happy Birthday to your mum (from a complete stranger on the Internet LOL).

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13. Januar 2016 at 5:04 #17824

Hi Alex:

Sorry I got busy.
Last evening I downloaded and compiled a „hostapd“ version using software from Realtek the makers of the RTL8188CUS chip in the Edimax.
This is a another attempt at getting a hostapd that works.

To try it follow the recipe

1. Burn a new image.
2. Expand it.
3. Update M2P.
4. Increase the USB current via the raspberry plug in (not really necessary yet)
5. Plug in the wifi dongle.
6. install wifi.
7. install access-point.
8. remove power and then apply power. 
9. login to the PI and execute these commands:

cd /usr/sbin
sudo rm -f hostapd
sudo wget https://www.dropbox.com/s/jqbwtzxmstt9zvr/hostapd
sudo chown root:root hostapd
sudo chmod 755 hostapd
sudo service networking restart
sudo service hostapd restart

1. on your IOS device, set-up -> wifi should show an available network with SSID “max2play” (or whatever you set it to)
2. Try to connect to this network, if you get an error, “forget” the network, and re-try (you will prompted for password in this case).
3. If connected, on the IOS device use safari or chrome and browse the PI at: http://192.168.189.1/ , you should see the max2play page.

If you see the web page then access point is successfully installed.

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12. Januar 2016 at 21:02 #17816

You can certainly try one of the new dongles.

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12. Januar 2016 at 20:39 #17811

That’s looks like it should be working. with that debug command running can you see the accespoint?

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12. Januar 2016 at 20:02 #17809

change the 2nd one to:

sudo /usr/sbin/hostapd -d /etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf | less

And if the same thing happens

just

sudo /usr/sbin/hostapd -d /etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf

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12. Januar 2016 at 19:19 #17807

re copy and paste:
On your PC search and download a program called putty.exe. It’s a nice simple standalone executable.
run it and select the „ssh“ connection type. Type in the IP address of the PI, and hit open. Accept the key and log in.
You should be able to copy and paste from the putty window, by selecting the text from the putty window (to copy), and then hitting Ctrl-V
(to paste) in another window.

Are you saying that:
Ioctl[RTL_IOCTL_HOSTAPD]: Invalid argument
is the only response from that command?

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12. Januar 2016 at 16:33 #17802

Thanks for the link, it appears that many people struggle with getting access-point working.

Looks like we have the correct hostapd program for your edimax dongle, we confirmed yesterday that the access-point plug-in detected it.

OK Two things:
– Yesterday you mentioned a glitch while installing the accesspoint plug-in
ALEX: "This is a bit worrying, it started to d/l then the page just cleared, so I hit the back button..."
I’m not sure if that would have messed things up or not. perhaps a retry?
– At this point since hostapd is running but not working, we really need to look at the debug output from that program.
You say that you cannot cut and paste? What are the issues there?
The output that would be of interest is that generated by (after access-point installation and reboot):

sudo /etc/init.d/hostapd stop
sudo /usr/sbin/hostapd /etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf -d | less

The first line stops hostapd daemon and the second line runs it interactively with debug output.
Even more debug output can be obtained by running with the option „-dd“ rather than „-d“.

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12. Januar 2016 at 0:16 #17790

I cannot believe it not working…..like before the process is running…

sudo iwconfig

for this command what is it reporting for mode?

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12. Januar 2016 at 0:04 #17786

yup

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12. Januar 2016 at 0:01 #17784

hahah I am surprised. I thought it would work at this point.

at the bottom of the accesspoint page do you see the Accesspoint runnning info.

What does that say? copy those two lines here.

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11. Januar 2016 at 23:54 #17781

you should not need to save….that is for changing the SSID or passcode or Standalone later
although doing it should not matter

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11. Januar 2016 at 23:52 #17780

no do not click stand-alone for now

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11. Januar 2016 at 23:47 #17777

don’t click stand-alone….

you should see that message now! buried in the log of messages that flashed by (At least I expect that)

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11. Januar 2016 at 23:28 #17769

yes you „should see a line“

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11. Januar 2016 at 23:16 #17767

when you install accesspoint… in the log at the bottom you should see a line

Change hostapd-Binary to Edimax RTL8188CUS Chipset

if it detects the Edimax dongle

• This reply was modified 8 years, 10 months ago by noop.

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11. Januar 2016 at 22:04 #17764

and be sure to pick the „Max2Play_RaspberryPi_all_2.22.img.zip“ file.

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11. Januar 2016 at 21:52 #17759

yes please so basically repeat post number #17645

with step 0: download new max2play image

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11. Januar 2016 at 21:42 #17755

Image maker? No I’m referring the file downloaded from sourceforge via the max2play download link.

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11. Januar 2016 at 20:44 #17753

sudo perL -i.orig -p -e ’s/driver=nL80211/driver=rtL871xdrv/‘ /etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf

convert the 3 „L“s to lowercase the others are „ones“.

What I meant regrading the image was to try re-downloading it from max2play.

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11. Januar 2016 at 16:32 #17727

Alex:

No problem… I hoped you wouldn’t bother last night.

So, after you get a chance to try that. I had another thought … you EDIMAX dongle „should“ simply work. Maybe your download image is somehow corrupt. It wouldn’t hurt to try re-downloading the image and simply trying it.

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11. Januar 2016 at 0:08 #17711

after work tomorrow try this alternate hostapd, it for the EDIMAX

sudo /etc/init.d/hostapd stop
sudo perl -i.orig -p -e  's/driver=nl80211/driver=rtl871xdrv/' /etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf
cd /usr/sbin
sudo rm -f hostapd
sudo wget http://www.daveconroy.com/wp3/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/hostapd.zip
sudo unzip hostapd.zip 
sudo chown root:root hostapd
sudo chmod 755 hostapd
sudo service networking restart
sudo service hostapd restart
sudo apt-get install iw
sudo iw wlan0 info

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10. Januar 2016 at 23:55 #17709

ok time for a break LOL. we are missing something.

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10. Januar 2016 at 23:53 #17708

yes that prompt says, that you are logged in as user „pi“ on host max2play and your current directory is /usr/sbin

and that is expected.

So can you the access point from your IOS device?

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10. Januar 2016 at 23:44 #17705

that’s OK that was just to confirm AP…
you can test that by trying to connect with your IOS device

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10. Januar 2016 at 23:18 #17702

no problemo … stick an sudo in front of that perl command.
I’ve edited that post.

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10. Januar 2016 at 22:44 #17697

okay here goes…if it gets messed up we lose nothing just reflash (LOL).

/etc/init.d/hostapd stop
sudo perl -i.orig -p -e  's/driver=nl80211/driver=rtl871xdrv/' /etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf
cd /usr/sbin
sudo rm -f hostapd
sudo wget http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1663660/hostapd/hostapd
sudo chown root:root hostapd
sudo chmod 755 hostapd
sudo service networking restart
sudo service hostapd restart
iw wlan0 info

hopefully it says that you are AP mode

• This reply was modified 8 years, 10 months ago by noop.

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10. Januar 2016 at 22:17 #17694

dmesg | grep rtl

what does that return? I’m reading this web page BTW:
http://jacobsalmela.com/raspberry-pi-and-routing-turning-a-pi-into-a-router/

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10. Januar 2016 at 21:53 #17691

my mistake

you need to execute as root

sudo apt-get install iw