Help! ESP-05 + pi zero = internet

[demonclaw]

I have looked and looked and can't find what I want. I bought a Raspberry Pi Zero and I also bought a ESP8266 ESP-05. I hand wired up the ESP-05 to the Pi using the right pin out and everything but for the software side I can't find a thing about using a ESP8266 as a WIFI dongle saving my only USB port for more important things like mouse/keyboard. I know I could just get a hub and a USB WIFI dongle but I have a fixed amount of cash I can work with.

Here is what I need help with I want to use a ESP8266 to hook my PI Zero to my router. Sounds simple but I have yet to find a step by step guild to do this. I want to use the ESP8266 on my pi to get on the internet and do stuff on the internet.

:Edit: I goofed up on the name of the the thing its not ESP2866 its actally ESP8266

[fishdude]

Found this http://www.esp8266.com/viewtopic.php?f= ... 8&start=16 doesnt look like it's working yet though,

[demonclaw]

I saw that but there is no step by step in there.

[stderr]

using a ESP2866 as a WIFI dongle saving my only USB port for more important things like mouse/keyboard. I know I could just get a hub and a USB WIFI dongle but I have a fixed amount of cash I can work with.

If this is a usb dongle, can't you plug it into a machine that has a keyboard and mouse and an extra USB port in order to test? You can't be sending these posts using the zero since it only has one usb port and you'd need two to use your keyboard/mouse unit and your ethernet/wifi dongle at the same time, or a hub which you don't have you say, therefore you have such a machine in front of you right now. I would use that.

[demonclaw]

NO its not USB. http://i.stack.imgur.com/gSEYz.png There is a picture of what I'm talking about since you didn't know. Plus to answer you back on the second thing you said I'm using my pc to post questions which is totally off topic.

I have hooked the pins from the ESP-05 to the GPIO pins of the Pi.

[DougieLawson]

Your problem is trying to route IP traffic over the serial link between your RPi and your ESP8266. Without having a point-to-point daemon (pppd) running on the ESP8266 that's going to be impossible.

Last time I looked there wasn't any pppd support in ESP8266 firmware and hand crafting one is non-trivial/impossible.

[hansotten]

You can accomplish quite a lot with the combination Raspberry Pi (zero) and an ESP8266

See this:

http://pwiatrowski.com/technology/raspb ... -internet/

http://jeelabs.org/about/ and https://github.com/jeelabs/esp-link

[scruss]

Your problem is trying to route IP traffic over the serial link between your RPi and your ESP8266. Without having a point-to-point daemon (pppd) running on the ESP8266 that's going to be impossible.

Not necessarily: the ESP8266 behaves like a Hayes modem over a serial link, so you could do something with SLIP and dialler commands.

[DougieLawson]

You can accomplish quite a lot with the combination Raspberry Pi (zero) and an ESP8266

See this:

http://pwiatrowski.com/technology/raspb ... -internet/

http://jeelabs.org/about/ and https://github.com/jeelabs/esp-link

Sneaky, that was published after I'd looked back in November.

[demonclaw]

http://pwiatrowski.com/technology/raspb ... -internet/

I have read that more then once and what I don't get is what they call the server side? wouldn't the WIFI router be my server side.

[DougieLawson]

I think he's got another system with an ethernet connection that's being used as a bridge.