Raspberry Pi as Access Point

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About

I was out of access points with external antennas, so I tried to use a Raspberry Pi 3 with an USB-Wifi-Stick as an access point.

Setup

• Basic setup
  • Download the latest OS for your Pi: https://www.raspberrypi.com/software/
  • Insert your SD-Card while watching dmesg -w or use fdisk -l to find your device. In my case it's /dev/sda
  • Copy the image to the SD-card: dd if=2024-03-15-raspios-bookworm-arm64-lite.img of=/dev/sda bs=1M
  • Insert into the pi, power it up
  • Complete basic setup: Choose keyboard layout, create user, enable sshd a.s.o. (raspi-config)
  • apt-get update && apt-get upgrade
• Access point
  • apt-get install hostapd dnsutils traceroute

[ 132.306961] usb 1-1.2: new high-speed USB device number 6 using dwc_otg [ 132.407915] usb 1-1.2: New USB device found, idVendor=0bda, idProduct=8812, bcdDevice= 0.00 [ 132.407939] usb 1-1.2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3 [ 132.407948] usb 1-1.2: Product: 802.11n NIC [ 132.407954] usb 1-1.2: Manufacturer: Realtek [ 132.407960] usb 1-1.2: SerialNumber: 123456

Tweaks

- https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:19548