abandonware/wireless-tools

Unable to Join hostapd AP [RPI3]

theavijitsarkar opened this issue · 4 comments

theavijitsarkar commented

Hostapd is started. I can see the AP. But when i try to join it doesnt, its stuck at obtaining ip address.

theavijitsarkar commented

fixed by installed dnsmasq and setting an ip for wlan0

Nic2012 commented

Hi snowbreeze,
I probably fighting with the same problem, I called hostapd.enable and I can see the ap too. But no client can get an ip. How did y solve it with dnsmasq etc. from node.js or on system level?
I assume the dhcp server is adjusted before?
Best regrads,
Nic

theavijitsarkar commented

Install these

sudo apt-get install dnsmasq
sudo apt-get install hostapd

Append to /etc/dnsmasq.conf

# disables dnsmasq reading any other files like /etc/resolv.conf for nameservers
no-resolv
# Interface to bind to
interface=wlan0
# Specify starting_range,end_range,lease_time
dhcp-range=10.0.0.3,10.0.0.20,12h
# dns addresses to send to the clients
server=8.8.8.8
server=8.8.4.4

In network interfaces

allow-hotplug wlan0
auto wlan0

From node before you enable, do these via exec

sudo ifconfig wlan0 up 10.0.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0
sudo dnsmasq
kevireilly commented

This allowed me to start the access point, see the access point, but not connect to the access point. What worked for me was adding broadcast 255.0.0.0 to the ifconfig command:

sudo ifconfig wlan0 up 10.0.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 255.0.0.0