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Wifi and access point on RPi

Tony Yu Cao edited this page Jul 13, 2016 · 4 revisions

We have ssh access to our RPi through WiFi connection. Default password for both RPi is: sailrobot

#Configuration notes ##The Pi Hut dongle WiFi dongle supplied by thePihub is 'out of box' for RPi.

##Edimax dongle type WiFi https://gist.github.com/eduardschaeli/4734786

There is some issue of the official drivers for our WiFi dongle. And we need use the self made drivers to make the AP mode works.

https://jenssegers.com/43/Realtek-RTL8188-based-access-point-on-Raspberry-Pi

##Edimax omni-directional WiFi Check kernel version of linux first uname -a

Then download setup script based on linux version

wget https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/80256631/8812au-4.1.7-v7-817.tar.gz
tar xzf 8812au-4.1.7-v7-817.tar.gz
./install.sh

Reboot and WiFi device will show in iwconfig

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