Hi,
I am looking at setting up CentOS 8 up as an WIFI Access Point on my PC Engines APU board.
I'm not seeing a hostapd available anywhere for CentOS8 ?
Is there a different method of doing this now ?
thx
Matt
Setting CentOS up as AccessPoint
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Re: Setting CentOS up as AccessPoint
I had to do something like this.
nmcli con add type wifi ifname wlp5s0 mode ap con-name wlp5s0 802-11-wireless.ssid mywifissid
nmcli con modify wlp5s0 802-11-wireless.band bg connection.autoconnect yes 802-11-wireless-security.key-mgmt wpa-psk
nmcli con modify wlp5s0 802-11-wireless-security.psk secretpassword ipv4.addr 192.168.3.1/24 ipv4.method shared
nmcli con up wlp5s0
change your connection-name, interface, ip-address, and password accordingly.
nmcli con add type wifi ifname wlp5s0 mode ap con-name wlp5s0 802-11-wireless.ssid mywifissid
nmcli con modify wlp5s0 802-11-wireless.band bg connection.autoconnect yes 802-11-wireless-security.key-mgmt wpa-psk
nmcli con modify wlp5s0 802-11-wireless-security.psk secretpassword ipv4.addr 192.168.3.1/24 ipv4.method shared
nmcli con up wlp5s0
change your connection-name, interface, ip-address, and password accordingly.
Re: Setting CentOS up as AccessPoint
Thanks this helped. My card only supports 1/2 being an AP it looks like. Dual band but the 5ghz band is blocked because they set the eprom to "World" instead of "US", where we can use this. So unless I can figure out how to override the ath9k driver and tell it where I am so it allows radiation on the allow freqs, to be an AP on 5ghz (2.4ghz works fine) I will have to look for a new mini-pcie card.