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The pineapple is openWRT, so searches can be done for openWRT of what you are trying to do.

The pineapple isn't just a stand alone router, it is a specialized penetration testing tool. An understanding of networking and network routing is important.

The configurations you would need to change are in in the link previously posted by Sebkinne. If you can read and understand the information on that site, you should be able to create from scratch or modify the config accordingly.

I don't feel like modifying my pineapple down to a simple AP to test any configs, and I'm not sure many people will.

i'm not trying to test any configurations i'm trying to get it to connect to the internet so i can get updates and/or infusions with out walking up and down my road to find an open access point and hope that signal is strong enough to not timeout while also carrying a bunch of stuff in the freezing cold and snow everywhere

i'll just have to do the opposite and create an adhoc connection with my notebook while its connected to ethernet... hope that works

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well now after an additional hour figured out i could connect to the pineapple through ssh then cd /etc/config then nano network and change the proto to dhcp for eth0 under the lan interface
AND THAT DID NOTHING BUT BREAK MY PINEAPPLE
so now i'm up to the 7th factory restart
countless hours of searching to the point where i can no longer read what tabs go where and have come to the realization that anytime that i think i find hope it's just a topic with no responses what so ever, or the answer is not the answer and just someone trying to be the first to go ctrl c-v to the setting up connection page of the booklet
so seriously please! does someone have an actual answer on where to and how to, black and white to the t, make my pineapple a wireless router

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well after about three hours i've come to the conclusion that i need to some how change/set/configure eth0 to protocol dhcp but i have no idea where i can do this or how many commands this would take... is there a command(s) i can run in the dip switch/bootmode?... do i run what ever the command(s) are right from the advance tab?... tried to ssh into it type help and got a handful of commands that don't do anything for me. tried to find this so called network file in /etc/config but have no idea how to read or alter that

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Let me try to help. But first, I would like to say that there are a few things wrong with this post:

• The title is non descriptive.
• You didn't supply us with any logs, configurations etc.
• You didn't give us any background information on the network you are trying to connect to.
• You didn't tell us what OS you are connecting from - Though you later mentioned windows.

First of all, the WiFi Pineapple MKV does NOT support https. Trying to reach it over https will result in a connection error.

So, lets try to get to the bottom of this. If you want to give your WiFi Pineapple MKV internet over it's ethernet port, you can do so in two different ways:

1. Follow the instructions in the supplied booklet. They describe how to configure your IPV4 settings correctly and set a static IP of 172.16.42.42.
2. Re-configure the ethernet port on the WiFi Pineapple MKV so that it tries to get an IP over DHCP. This is what you'll want if you are connecting the WiFi Pineapple MKV directly to your modem over ethernet. Read through this.

On the WiFi Pineapple MKV there are a few ways to give it (and it's clients) internet. We support Android USB tethering, mobile broadband dongles, WiFi Clientmode, ethernet. It seems like you only want ethernet for this setup. We don't have it configured to work with a router by default, but to work with our configurations by default.

The likely reason you are unable to connect to the WiFi Pineapple webinterface is because your routing settings are incorrect.

Now, your comment on "Operator Error", I think you may have misunderstood the setup instructions in regards to Internet Connection Sharing. The WiFi Pineapple was designed for penetration testing purposes and therefore is configured as such. If you wish to use it as a stand alone router, a bit of configuration is necessary. If you are unhappy and you are within the 30 days return policy, contact shop@hak5.org for a return.

Best Regards,

Sebkinne

thank you for you post and link i'll be reading that shortly, and i wouldn't return such an amazing device solely for its feature set just a bit discouraged and heated and posting with out thinking...

Yes at the moment i'm trying to use the pineapple as such :cable modem-->pineapple-->computer: simply as a wireless access point (i'm sure your link will help me out)

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so i tired to first set my ipv4 settings on my computers wireless card to

192.16.42.42

255.255.255.0

192.16.42.1 also tried 192.16.42.0

8.8.8.8

this didn't work because the pineapple still does not get an ip address...

reading into documents you supplied me i assume this is because my cable modem is docisis 3 and i have to "Enable the broadcast flag in DHCP requests"

now could i possible get a link to where and how i can view/edit the configuration file.. i assume i could use the dip switch configuration to say run the command(s) needed to get dhcp requests

also something weird that i just noticed is that when i'm directly connected from my cable modem to my computer (so i can actually use the internet) my computer has suddenly named my local area connection adapter to 'Pineapple5_0FDF 2' is that normal like something to do with my cable modem throwing out information from being connected to the pineapple

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The modem has learned the MAC address of your computer/router. Power off the modem, plug in the pineapple to the modem, power on modem.

ughhhh well that worked.. found open wifi connected and the pineapple received an ip address. i went ahead and power cycled my modem before connecting it to the pineapple and it didn't work once again no internet

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things have gotten more weird... I've gotten it to work by using the supplied ethernet cable however to get it to work i have to go in and edit the ipv4 properties on my wireless card save it go back in then set it all back to automatic (why this would have anything to do with the pineapple accessing internet i have no idea) but after getting the pineapple to receive an ip address i'm no longer able to connect to it through 172.16.42.1:1471

seriously i'm a huge say'er of 'operator error' but what is wrong with this piece of crap this would be some what more bearable if i was learning anything about this hardware but it has been noneducational, and absolutely the worst piece of equipment I've ever worked with i'm to the point where i'd rather get my money back

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well either way i still have no connection at the moment i'm trying to find a wireless signal that i connect too in my neighborhood to see if i can at least get internet that way. if that works i'll try power cycling the modem before connecting it to my pineapple just in case i haven't done that and if it doesn't work then i guess i still have problems :(

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Are you using HTTPS://IP:Port for accessing the pineapple?

For the modem, you will need to power cycle your modem for it to work. It has to do with the "learned" MAC address on the modem.

i just go to my url and type "172.16.42.1:1471" no http or https

so i just did a factory reset

after reset connected by wireless went to https://172.16.42.1:1471

'ssl connection error'

same with directly connected

realized it may because i didn't setup completely after reset

successful connect to 172.16.42.1:1471 through cable

make password

redo network with modem-->computer

connect to pineapple

go to https://172.16.42.1:1471/

'ssl connection error'

try also with pineapple-->computer

'ssl connection error'

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You need to provide more details.

How far did you get with the setup of the Mark V?

What type of connection are you using to connect to the modem?

etc...

Also, the manual should help get you to at least a starting point

insert card, power on, wait, browse

after i set the pineapple up with a password i took the cable from my computer and connected it to my cable modem then on my computer connected to the ssid of my pineapple 'no internet'

try and go to 172.16.42.1:1471 won't go

take cable from cable modem put it back into the computer

try and go to 172.16.42.1:1471 won't go

take cable from pineapple and put into the cable modem

try and do google search for answers, won't connect to internet

power cycle cable modem reconnect it computer for internet to work

find some stuff that might help try and connect to the pineapple over wifi so i won't have to deal with unplugging and plugging cables computer willl not connect to the pineapple at all so power cycle connect to ssid get into it nothing i tried works

reflash

and repeat

the only thing that i have found out from my persistence is that any time i connect the pineapple directly to the cable modem and it doesn't work and i then instead plug the modem directly into my computer i have to power cycle the modem to get internet on my computer again.

the same goes for the pineapple itself anytime after the statement above windows fails to connect to the access point and i don't mean 'no internet connection' i mean straight up will not connect and i have to power cycle the pineapple just to connect to the pineapple through wireless.

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i don't even know where to being with this but i can not get my pineapple to connect to the internet. I'm at the moment just trying to use it as a access point between my modem and computer. Any help would be much appreciated thank you