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iOS_Neil

Thanks for all the info, it definitely helps and gives me some interesting reading ahead :) I do run a VPN on my iPhone when needed, but the FireStick has no option to run through a VPN - hence the reason I want to use the Pi. I'll post back and let you know how I get on. Again, I'm indebted to you ...

iOS_Neil

Regards VPN, all I'd like to be able to do is connect my iPhone / Firestick to avoid geoip restrictions...I'm happy to use a paid solution rather than free but currently have a free trial with one that uses OpenVPN...

EDIT: I should have said...Its working on my Pi B which is fantastic!

iOS_Neil

!!!!!!!!!
Guess who's connected to 'worky' and posting this reply whilst connected?!!

It's alive, ALIVE!

Thank you SO much for sticking with me to get it working. I'm so pleased right now (and the wife is off my back

)

Now...To look at VPNs

iOS_Neil

Hmmm...Unzipped the file, it came out at around 15gb. When I try to write it I get an error that my card isn't big enough. I'll buy another card tomorrow

Edit: Can examine the img file and currently extracting the 5gb

iOS_Neil

Downloaded and perfect match on the checksum!

Will try to get the card written tonight and will let you know asap

iOS_Neil

Google says Dropbox allows up to 20gb?

iOS_Neil

I had a thought...Don't know if it's feasible but what if you img'd your card, uploaded, I downloaded & wrote to my card? Is that an idea?

iOS_Neil

That's "brctl showmacs br0" I would suppose it would work on Pi same as Pi2, but I don't really know. There is something that I've left out until now, that would be to change the SSID name, and perhaps channel. I know your file works on my machine; but I remember your files had control characters p...

iOS_Neil

Hello! Thanks for the long and detailed desciprtion! I've gone through everything that I can see again, checked all the things you've listed...And still not working :( It MUST be something I've done (or not done) clearly. When I got to the end and did "showmacs br0" the Pi returned pi@raspberrypi:~ ...

iOS_Neil

Ha ha, I just need to concentrate a bit more....I can only imagine how frustrating it must be for you that you've done everything right and I'm struggling because I can't follow instruction. Thanks for sticking with it

iOS_Neil

Looking back, I think I missed the sudo apt-get upgrade

I'll check when home and get it done...

iOS_Neil

Morning! At work now but can try tonight. One thing I noticed straight off - your uname - shows: root@raspberrypi:~# uname -a Linux raspberrypi -->4.4.11-v7+ #888<-- SMP Mon May 23 20:10:33 BST 2016 armv7l GNU/Linux Mine shows: pi@raspberrypi:~ $ uname -a Linux raspberrypi -->4.4.9+ #884<-- Fri May ...

iOS_Neil

Evening

Well...Borrowed the Pi2 and facing the same problems I had with mine. I think I may wait until the weekend with spare time and start from scratch again, format card and start right at the top.

Neil.

iOS_Neil

^CSignal 2 received - terminating Did you ctrl-c in the window? I'm not sure that trace was showing something bad. And yeah, tough luck. Now you see why my original forum post was written as it was... Perhaps if you can put the SD in a Pi2 it would work? No, didn't crtl-c out. No worries, I'll hold...

iOS_Neil

:( I don't know why but I couldn't manage adding 2 attachments to the same post. Here is the wpa2-only file. hostapd.conf.wpa2only.gz I'm signing off for now, but I'm subscribed to the thread. Yell if your can make it work... "Incorrect password" - easypeasy Ah well...Thanks so much for all your he...

iOS_Neil

I just tried connecting to the unsecured one with my laptop, I saw some output on the Pi: wlan0: Setup of interface done. +rtl871x_get_sta_wpaie, 20:10:7a:26:c4:15 is sta's address wlan0: Event ASSOC (0) received wlan0: STA 20:10:7a:26:c4:15 IEEE 802.11: associated STA did not include WPS/RSN/WPA IE...

iOS_Neil

epoch1970 wrote: Is he angry, now?

He'll be angry if it works and I refuse to give him his Pi back

My config.txt is standard - everything was commented out except:

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dtparam=audio=on

I tried adding

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max_usb_current=1

but it made no difference.

iOS_Neil

Rather than get Raspbian to act as a wifi device/AP why not install OpenWrt instead? https://www.all4os.com/router/how-to-install-openwrt-on-raspberry-pi.html JP I think *we* terribly want to see this Pi run hostapd under raspbian :) But this is certainly a good option if we fail in the end. Agreed...

iOS_Neil

This is an OPEN ap config. I could connect an iphone and an ipad, same as half the neighborhood I guess :D I have gzipped the file. Uncompress it with "gzip -d hostapd.conf.open.gz" Then try it with "sudo hostapd -d ./hostapd.conf.open" hostapd.conf.open.gz "Unable to join the network "worky" " :| ...

iOS_Neil

:( Just wish I could be looking into things at this end too but I'm completely clueless! Do you think it's tje RPi itself that can't handle it? EDIT: Just spoken to my brother in law. He has a RPi 2 he's going to lend me - I'll put the SD in that one and se what happens...If it works, it has to be m...

iOS_Neil

Thanks! I'll check back and see how you get on

iOS_Neil

Still no joy. I tried looking on the Firestick again and noticed something - it says the security is WPA 2 -PSK ? Here's my hostapd: # Basic AP parameters ssid=worky wpa_psk=6aad4c3ee371b077d2eb402ffe2428eb41021e4e8926da0e4da3d87859d48d4e interface=wlan0 bridge=br0 channel=1 country_code=GB # From R...

iOS_Neil

Nothing else plugged into it...No keyboard, mouse..Just the wifi. Shall I try a different power supply?

iOS_Neil

Ok, tried connecting to another network - fine; Used my Kindle firestick, found AP, entered easypeasy it came back saying WPA-PSK, signal strength: very good, then signal strength: out of range, then invalid password. RPi was about 6 inches from the fire stick. Would it be anything to do with the ch...

iOS_Neil

Just rebooted. Standing about 4 feet from it. I'll try now forgetting the network and trying again and then on another device...Be 5 minutes..

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