Realtek repos linked from Raspberry Hotspot router project

[smos]

Hi,

I came across your repositories for the Realtek drivers and incorporated a script in my project to fetch and build the drivers with minimal user input. https://github.com/smos/nomad-hotspot/blob/main/realtek.sh

The project is a Wifi hotspot router I use when I go camping as it is easy to place in line of sight and connect all devices at once. Also, some still provide a single device use code, which is very 2009.
https://github.com/smos/nomad-hotspot

Regards,
Seth

[morrownr]

Hi @smos

I like this. I have avoided doing something like this because of the different dev environment installation requirements but I can see this being useful to people on a specific distro.

Nick

[black-jmyntrn]

now... can your icons for control show on lcd attached to the raspberry other than hyperpixel? or say show the status of connections? Id wants to use it with multiple wan devices and have it load balance them all including any wifi it's connected to.

[smos]

The display session is a basic UI session under the kiosk user, it launches a browser and has a browser screensaver. So yes, this can be shown on any screen, but I designed it for portrait orientation.

This is not a full fledged router, as such there are no provisions for multi-wan, load balancing or the like. I am considering some built in logic to always prefer cable over wifi, but that is counter to your quest. As that makes it easier for travel when I do find a ethernetport.
Also, you can have just one default route, the UI will switch from the wifi icon to a ethernet jack to show this. I just remove the usb wifi adapter when I plug in a cable to make this happen.

I would suggest other distributions like openwrt for the Raspberry Pi, although they lack a UI representation like this one. Speed is about 70mbit as a AP with the builtin Raspberry Wifi.