Ali-leb Posted June 21, 2019 Posted June 21, 2019 TRYING TO create an ad-hoc network using wireless adapter( lb-link model: wn155a) on NANOPI NEO (Linux nanopim1 3.4.113-sun8i #28 SMP PREEMPT Thu Feb 2 02:01:28 CET 2017 armv7l GNU/Linux). we used this link https://citricks.net/create-access-point-linux/ BUT ad-hoc WAS NOT CREATED. running iwconfig looks like: lo no wireless extensions. tunl0 no wireless extensions. ra0 Ralink STA ESSID:"11n-AP" Nickname:"MT7601STA" Mode:Auto Frequency=2.412 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated Bit Rate:1 Mb/s RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off Encryption key:off Link Quality=10/100 Signal level:0 dBm Noise level:0 dBm Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0 eth0 no wireless extensions. running ifconfig looks like : eth0 .....(not important) lo ... (not important) ra0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 0c:8c:24:b7:d7:dc UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:17365 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:156 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:3718930 (3.5 MiB) TX bytes:16224 (15.8 KiB) Can I use the steps of creating an Access Point to create an ad-hoc mode network? or I am in the wrong way?
Igor Posted June 21, 2019 Posted June 21, 2019 4 hours ago, Ali-leb said: or I am in the wrong way? 1. You are using one if not the cheapest USB wireless key 2. You will have much bigger chances of success by using a modern kernel which also have a better driver It is possible that you need to have a special hostapd for this wifi chip ... try armbian-config way of setting AP. 1
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