Setting up WiFi Access Point on HummingBoard 2 and Armbian Bionic

[marvindroid]

I am trying to set up a WiFi access point on Hummingboard 2 which has Armbian Bionic.

 

I am having trouble setting up WiFi AP on the HummingBoard 2. I was able to set this up in a Raspberry Pi using a combination of hostapd and dnsmasq, but having issues on Hummingboard 2 and Armbian. We are operating a sensor using the Board and would like to transfer files using the WiFi generated by the board.

 

/etc/rc.local has the following:

 

sleep 5
rfkill unblock wifi

/usr/sbin/hostapd /etc/hostapd.conf
systemctl restart dnsmasq

iptables-restore < /etc/iptables.ipv4.nat

 

NetworkManager.conf has the following:

 

[main]
dns=default
rc-manager=file
plugins=ifupdown,keyfile

[ifupdown]
managed=false

[device]
wifi.scan-rand-mac-address=no

 

/etc/network/interfaces is set up as:

 

source /etc/network/interfaces.d/*
# Network is managed by Network manager
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

auto wlan0
allow hot-plug wlan0

auto br0
iface br0 inet manual
bridge_ports eth0 wlan0

 

/etc/hostapd.conf is setup as:

#
# armbian hostapd configuration example
#
# nl80211 mode
#
interface=wlan0
driver=nl80211
hw_mode=g
channel=7
bridge=br0
logger_syslog=0
logger_syslog_level=0
wmm_enabled=0
wpa=2
preamble=1
ssid=ARMBIAN_WiFi
wpa_psk=66eb31d2b48d19ba216f2e50c6831ee11be98e2fa3a8075e30b866f4a5ccda27
wpa_passphrase=12345678
wpa_key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
wpa_pairwise=TKIP
rsn_pairwise=CCMP
auth_algs=1
macaddr_acl=0
### IEEE 802.11n
#ieee80211n=1
#ht_capab=
#country_code=US
#ieee80211d=1
### IEEE 802.11n

### IEEE 802.11a
#hw_mode=a
### IEEE 802.11a

### IEEE 802.11ac
#ieee80211ac=1
#vht_capab=[MAX-MPDU-11454][SHORT-GI-80][TX-STBC-2BY1][RX-STBC-1][MAX-A-MPDU-LEN-EXP3]
#vht_oper_chwidth=1
#vht_oper_centr_freq_seg0_idx=42
### IEEE 802.11ac

# controlling enabled
ctrl_interface=/var/run/hostapd
ctrl_interface_group=0

 

/etc/dnsmasq.conf is setup as:

 

port=5353
interface=wlan0
  dhcp-range=192.168.1.50,192.168.1.60,12h

 

/etc/dhcp/dhclient.conf has:

# Configuration file for /sbin/dhclient.
#
# This is a sample configuration file for dhclient. See dhclient.conf's
#	man page for more information about the syntax of this file
#	and a more comprehensive list of the parameters understood by
#	dhclient.
#
# Normally, if the DHCP server provides reasonable information and does
#	not leave anything out (like the domain name, for example), then
#	few changes must be made to this file, if any.
#

option rfc3442-classless-static-routes code 121 = array of unsigned integer 8;

send host-name = gethostname();
request subnet-mask, broadcast-address, time-offset, routers,
	domain-name, domain-name-servers, domain-search, host-name,
	dhcp6.name-servers, dhcp6.domain-search, dhcp6.fqdn, dhcp6.sntp-servers,
	netbios-name-servers, netbios-scope, interface-mtu,
	rfc3442-classless-static-routes, ntp-servers;

alias {
  interface "eth0";
  fixed-address 192.168.1.5;
  option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0;
}

alias {
  interface "wlan0";
  fixed-address 192.168.1.10;
  option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0;
}

 

 

I do see the SSID of the WiFi being generated on other machines, but unable to connect to it.

 

Here are the two guides I followed to set up AP on Raspberry PI:

 

https://thepi.io/how-to-use-your-raspberry-pi-as-a-wireless-access-point/

 

https://web.archive.org/web/20170103221147/https://frillip.com/using-your-raspberry-pi-3-as-a-wifi-access-point-with-hostapd/

 

Any advice or suggestions to troubleshoot this situation is helpful. Thank you for your time.

[Werner]

I dont know how to build an access point from scratch but have you tried the easy way? https://github.com/RaspAP/raspap-webgui

[marvindroid]

Thank you for the tip, Werner. Will try to use the rasp-ap-gui to see if it fixes the issue I am facing.

[Werner]

Feel free to leave feedback if it works.

As for me I tried raspap once on an orangepi zero and worked oob.

[marvindroid]

Unfortunately the raspap is not working obo for me. Tried to debug, but couldn't by myself. Here is the guide I followed for raspAP https://www.instructables.com/Raspberry-Pi-As-Completely-Wireless-Router/ .

 

My original implementation, I was able to create an AP via /usr/sbin/hostapd /etc/hostapd.conf . Now I am getting wlan0 is not configured, even though I see wlan0 and wlan1 via iwconfig command.

 

Will revert to original implementation and see if I can fix the final step of getting connected to the device via the SSID being generated by the board.