Is It Possible To.....

[Neworld]

Is it possible to use a usb connected wifi dongle as the default access point rather that the internal one in the pineapple?

I want to turn the internal wifi antenna into a client and the usb connected wifi dongle into a access point. The reason I want to do this is because I can use a stronger external wifi to broadcast further. I'm looking to have it compatible with the existing modules and stuff as well.

Anyone have any thoughts on accomplishing this?

[PineDominator]

you can do this with WM's networkmanager. but getting karma to work on say the alfa NHA might be tricky.

[Neworld]

you can do this with WM's networkmanager. but getting karma to work on say the alfa NHA might be tricky.

That's what I was worried about.

[PineDominator]

That's what I was worried about.

im going to do a couple tests to see if its an easy task, hold tight

EDIT:

no go, seems to be setup for wlan0 before karma is even run?

Edited September 3, 2012 by petertfm

[Sebkinne]

It is very very very simple.

Just run hostapd with a config file specifying wlan1 as the interface.

Best Regards,

Sebkinne

[Neworld]

It is very very very simple.

Just run hostapd with a config file specifying wlan1 as the interface.

Best Regards,

Sebkinne

How would you do this specifically?

[PineDominator]

here is my findings

issue "killall hostapd"

then "cp /var/run/hostapd-phy0.conf /var/run/hostapd-phy1.conf"

edit hostapd-phy1.conf and change wlan0 to wlan1 and the bssid to the mac of wlan1

then you can run it like

ifconfig wlan0 down

rm /tmp/karma.log

hostapd -f /tmp/karma.log -dd hostapd-phy1.conf &

EDIT:

It's not full proof yet things like this in the .conf file need to be fixed "ctrl_interface=/var/run/hostapd-phy0" I think thats why there are some errors in the log

EDIT2:

I get this error in my ssh session and not the karma log?

wlan1: STA xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx IEEE 802.11: handle_action - unknown action category 131 or invalid frame
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Edited September 4, 2012 by petertfm

[legion]

I for one would love to see this working!

[01000010]

I am quite interested in how karma will behave when it is sharing the usb bandwidth with a flash drive at the same time.