TS-4900 Wifi Access Point: Difference between revisions

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Revision as of 10:22, 4 May 2017

First, hostapd needs to be installed in order to manage the access point on the device:

apt-get update && apt-get install hostapd -y
{{Note|The install process will start an unconfigured hostapd process.  This process must be killed and restarted before the hostapd.conf will take effect.}}

Edit /etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf to include the following lines:

interface=wlan0
driver=nl80211
ssid=YourAPName
channel=1
Note: Refer to the kernel's hostapd documentation for more wireless configuration options.


To start the access point launch hostapd:

hostapd /etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf &

This will start up an access point that can be detected by WIFI clients. A DHCP server will likely be desired to assign IP addresses. Refer to Debian's documentation for more details on DHCP configuration.