Using Beaglebone Black as a standalone wifi server/Access Point

[Ashish Prajapati]

Hi,

I want to use my Beaglebone Black as a standalone (not connected to internet) wireless server, to which multiple clients can connect and request a service.

I googled it out, and found that for this a usb wifi adapter, having the capability to run in a Master mode  is required.

I googled for such usb devices but could not get a concrete answer.

Pls anyone help me on the same and suggest which usb wifi device can serve my purpose !

Thanks in advance!!

 

[John Syn]

From: Ashish Prajapati <ashish.pr...@gmail.com>
Reply-To: <beagl...@googlegroups.com>
Date: Monday, June 9, 2014 at 3:36 AM
To: <beagl...@googlegroups.com>
Subject: [beagleboard] Using Beaglebone Black as a standalone wifi server/Access Point

Hi,

I want to use my Beaglebone Black as a standalone (not connected to internet) wireless server, to which multiple clients can connect and request a service.

I googled it out, and found that for this a usb wifi adapter, having the capability to run in a Master mode  is required.

I googled for such usb devices but could not get a concrete answer.

Search for "WIFI Direct”

Regards,

John

Pls anyone help me on the same and suggest which usb wifi device can serve my purpose !

Thanks in advance!!

 

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[Ashish Prajapati]

Hi,

Thanks John for the reply,

as per your advice I searched about Wif Direct and came to know that it is actually 

somewhat Ad-hoc wireless operation. I want to use Linux based laptops as  client to the Beaglebone black (acting as a wifi server running latest Ubuntu image).

With respect to above scenario I have two questions:

1> Does wifi radio that is available in Laptop by default (running on Linux)  can be configured to Ad-Hoc mode 

2> Does the wifi-adapters listed here can be configured as Ad-hoc on Beaglebone black.

I am a beginner so pls excuse if any unrelated question appears! 

Regards,

Ashish

[John Syn]

From: Ashish Prajapati <ashish.pr...@gmail.com>
Reply-To: <beagl...@googlegroups.com>

Date: Tuesday, June 10, 2014 at 12:00 AM
To: <beagl...@googlegroups.com>
Subject: [beagleboard] Re: Using Beaglebone Black as a standalone wifi server/Access Point

Hi,

Thanks John for the reply,

as per your advice I searched about Wif Direct and came to know that it is actually 

somewhat Ad-hoc wireless operation. I want to use Linux based laptops as  client to the Beaglebone black (acting as a wifi server running latest Ubuntu image).

Wi-Fi Direct is a software layer over Ad-hoc by adding a Software Access Point. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wi-Fi_Direct

With respect to above scenario I have two questions:

1> Does wifi radio that is available in Laptop by default (running on Linux)  can be configured to Ad-Hoc mode 

2> Does the wifi-adapters listed here can be configured as Ad-hoc on Beaglebone black.

http://boardzoo.com/index.php/catalog/product/view/id/146/category/8#.U5dZ7pRdWe0

I am a beginner so pls excuse if any unrelated question appears! 

Regards,

Ashish

On Monday, June 9, 2014 4:06:11 PM UTC+5:30, Ashish Prajapati wrote:

Hi,

I want to use my Beaglebone Black as a standalone (not connected to internet) wireless server, to which multiple clients can connect and request a service.

I googled it out, and found that for this a usb wifi adapter, having the capability to run in a Master mode  is required.

I googled for such usb devices but could not get a concrete answer.

Pls anyone help me on the same and suggest which usb wifi device can serve my purpose !

Thanks in advance!!

 

[andrew...@gmail.com]

On Monday, 9 June 2014 03:36:11 UTC-7, Ashish Prajapati wrote

I want to use my Beaglebone Black as a standalone (not connected to internet) wireless server, to which multiple clients can connect and request a service.

 I am also interested in this. I just ordered a Beagleboard Black, also a TPE-N150USB adapter from thinkpenguin.com which is listed as supporting Master Mode with hostapd. But I don't know if that will work with the Beagleboard.
It's not clear if any of the adapters listed on the Beagleboard page support master mode; I suspect not.

[Robert Nelson]

That adapter is a "AR9271", Atheros usually just works and supports host mode.

Regards,

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[nebius]

if this thing can be useful to you, I have just set up an ad-hoc wifi network between BBB and macbook.

I use a tp-link tl-WN722N (that mounts the AR9271 atheros chip).

With this wifi-interface is only necessary to install atheros driver and configure the wifi net. nothing more.

Here my configuration lines to /etc/network/interfaces

# WIFI ad-hoc

auto wlan0

allow-hotplug wlan0

iface wlan0 inet static

    address 192.168.2.2

    netmask 255.255.255.0

    wireless-channel 2

    wireless-essid name_of_the_ad_hoc_net

    wireless-key s:password

    wireless-mode ad-hoc

be careful with your password. It is better if it does not contain strange characters like &% $ # that they might not be interpreted correctly

[Ashish Prajapati]

Thanks!   for the reply ...

I will try tp-link tl-WN722N  for my setup.

 

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