Why two WiFi dongles required?

Question

Why two WiFi dongles required?

dazzag24 opened this issue 4 years ago · 7 comments

dazzag24 commented 4 years ago

Hi,

If you have RaspberryPi connected via ethernet cable, could you get by with only a single WiFi dongle?

Thanks

Answer 1 · 2020-12-04T16:33:28.000Z

Hello dazzag24,

Yes, but it is not implemented yet (simply that I haven't access to an ethernet cable for that... and still haven't). In that case you need to change in config.yaml the network out by eth0. I think that it will work correctly.

Félix.

Answer 2 · 2020-12-04T16:48:26.000Z

Hi Thanks for the reply. I'll see if I get a chance to test as I think many people will have at least one WiFi dongle and access to a wired connection. Darren

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Answer 3 · 2020-12-04T20:47:21.000Z

Yeah sorry. There is a miscomprehension here I think. Its only ONE wifi dongle, two wifi interfaces (the second interface is the one of your raspberry.)

Answer 4 · 2020-12-08T21:44:43.000Z

Yeah, Any interface would be a brilliant addition, You could even use this in larger envs if you have Port Mirroring or even a networking hub on a home network.

Answer 5 · 2020-12-21T21:51:58.000Z

I'm trying this. So far I've changed line 312 of install.sh:
if [[ "${#rfaces[@]}" == 1 ]]; then
So that it will install with only one wlan interface.
Then updated line 56 of config.yml:
out: eth0
Once that's done, I run the installer. Everything goes fine, and I see no errors.
After reboot, tinycheck.local says I'm already connected to a network, and asks if I want to use it, I say yes.
Then it pops this up.

After a reboot it does the same thing.
I'm not sure where the logging is to identify how to circumvent this issue.
I do see in my /usr/share/tinycheck/config.yml it does have this network config:

network:
  in: wlan0
  internet_check: http://example.com
  out: eth0
  ssids:
  - wireless
  - skynet
  - network
  - wifi
  tokenized_ssids: true

I want to try this tool so I'm happy to continue troubleshooting if you have further suggestions.

Answer 6 · 2020-12-22T09:43:21.000Z

Hello !

Thanks you very much for your feedback. Regarding this error message (that I need to change because nobody understand what's going on...) its related to hostapd when it throws an error. It is possible to get the content of the file/tmp/hostapd.log (which contains the full error stack) and the result of the command iw wlan0 to see the modes accepted by your Wi-Fi interface ? Moreover, you run it on what ? A raspberry pi ?

Regarding the usage of Ethernet, it is definitely something that I need to do, I hope during the next weeks. I'm gonna concentrate myself on that and the PDF reports.

Thanks again,
Félix.

Answer 7 · 2021-02-19T19:20:13.000Z

Hello,

I think that with the docs and the use of Ethernet available, everything is solved.
Case closed for me, do not hesitate to re-open it if needed.

Have a good week,
Félix.