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Hi, I am trying to make my Raspberry Pi2 Wireless Router. Main motivation is my Buffalo routers are getting old.
I have tried with rtl8192cu but not work with Master Mode(It works fine as client mode). It said 'Wireless is disabled or not associated'.
Is there any chips/usb devices which can act as Master mode so I can make my RP2 as router?
Please throw your thoughts any small idea may be a solution.
Thanks!
Do yourself a favour and look for better suited hardware (depending on your price range ipq806x, mvebu, mt7621, lantiq, ar71xx, ...) instead, AP mode and USB are always a problem - but RPi and wired+wireless network over USB 2.0 remains an even bigger one.
Hi slh,
Thanks for your reply. I (accidentally) found wireless.wiki.kernel.org and they said rtl8192cu is master-able.
And hours of trying and finally works as AP!
What I did was:
- Add one more module. This one was not installed automatically when I added rtl8192cu module.
kmod-net-rtl8192su
So installed modules are:
kmod-net-rtl8192su
kmod-rtl8192c-common
kmod-rtl8192cu
- Set specific channel (= anything but auto)
Auto channeling is not working with rtl8192cu, specifically mine.
That's it! I am enjoying Pi2 + rtl8192cu as a new Wifi router, much powerful/flexible router than WZR600DHP.
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