On Wednesday, January 14, 2015 at 5:16:51 PM UTC-5, AK@hobbyist wrote: > > Hi > > I am new to Beagleboen black and am trying to set up a WiFi hotpspot on > Beagleboe Black using the USB adapters with RTL8188CUS chipset. I am not > able to create it. If somebody has done ti please let me know. Thanks!!!! >
I have successfully set up my beaglebone black as an access point using a USB wifi adapter with the RTL8188CUS chipset. Here are the details: Hardware: Beaglebone Black rev C LB link wireless usb adapter (http://chicagodist.com/products/long-range-wifi-usb-with-antenna-for-raspberry-pi) Bone Software: Debian GNU/Linux 7 Kernel - Linux beaglebone 3.8.13-bone69 manually built rtl8188CUS device driver, 8192cu.ko (from sources at https://github.com/mcantarutti/ShopBot-API/tree/master/Arch_linux_config/rtl8188CUS-driver-beaglebone) hostapd Procedure: The stock 8192cu driver worked as a client, but could not be setup as an access point. Apparently the stock 8192cu driver does not have nl80211 support, which I believe is needed for access point functionality. I obtained the driver source from https://github.com/jlucidar/FabMo-Platform/tree/master/Arch_linux_config/rtl8188CUS-driver-beaglebone. This source has nl80211 support. I compiled the module from source and then replaced the stock 8192cu.ko file. At the next boot hostapd successfully set up wlan0 as an access point. As a bonus, the new version of the driver has concurrence enabled. With this function, the 8192cu driver creates two wifi interfaces, wlan0 and wlan1. I can use each of these wifi interfaces independently. frank agius -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to beagleboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
