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Hi all,

I ordered my first Raspberry as I have my first use case The device will be shipped tomorrow.
I would like to have a small Wifi repeater as I have no connection is some areas here.

#Modem/Router#__(cable)__#AP with DD-WRT#__(wifi)__#RPi 3 Model B with WLAN#___(wifi)___#any device (same network as Modem/Router)#

I found many howtos - but mainly with older RPi and not with onboard WLAN, but this is hopefully not a big issue.
However I was wondering if I really need 2 WLAN adapters (so buy one additional)?

My AP (DD-WRT) could do that with so called "virtual wlan interfaces" (see video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByB8vVGBjh4) . Is this not possible with the RPi? Do I really need another physical WLAN adapter?

I would appreciate any feedback.

Kind regards
ME

Why not install openWRT on the RPi ??

https://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/raspberry_ ... spberry_pi

Thanks for that idea. It seems that this is what I am looking for: https://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/recipes/bridgedclient

Unfortunately they do not have a built for Raspberry Pi 3 Model B yet. (There is no brcm2710 in https://downloads.openwrt.org/chaos_cal ... /brcm2708/)

It is not clear to me how I can create an img out of the development source ... https://dev.openwrt.org/changeset/49103

Can you help me with that?

Edit: I found the README ... "To build your own firmware you need to have access to a Linux, BSD or MacOSX system
(case-sensitive filesystem required). Cygwin will not be supported because of
the lack of case sensitiveness in the file system." ... so I need to have a Linux first. I will try that.

Beside of installing open wrt .. is there no way in doing that with Raspbian?

rasp_me wrote:Thanks for that idea. It seems that this is what I am looking for: https://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/recipes/bridgedclient

Unfortunately they do not have a built for Raspberry Pi 3 Model B yet. (There is no brcm2710 in https://downloads.openwrt.org/chaos_cal ... /brcm2708/)

It is not clear to me how I can create an img out of the development source ... https://dev.openwrt.org/changeset/49103

Can you help me with that?

Please go back and read the link I posted it clearly states:

2016-03-08 Trunk r48967 adds support for Raspberry Pi 3

fruitoftheloom wrote: Please go back and read the link I posted it clearly states:

2016-03-08 Trunk r48967 adds support for Raspberry Pi 3

As I said and posted it was not clear to me how to make an image from this Trunk r48967. Anyway I found the README now.