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Raspberry Pi won't bring up wlanX interface - multiple wireless interfaces
Let me jump straight in.
I am using a raspberry pi 3 running latest version of raspbian (pixel) as a router/wifi hotspot
I have 3 wireless interfaces:
built in wifi interface (brcmfmac)
TP-Link ...
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USB Wireless Adapter recognized by `lsusb` but not by `ifconfig` on Linux
I am experiencing some issues with an Wireless Adapter. Long story short:
I have a USB Wireless Adapter: AWUS036ACH (chipset: RTL8812AU)
drivers are up to date: (i.e., apt-get install realtek-...
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Debian 7: "Failure of key exchange and association"
I'm installing Debian using the Live CD with GNOME and the non-free packages. The internet works just fine when using the live CD, but when you try to open the installer and select a network, it gives ...
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Default gateway disappears from routing table
I use NetworkManager (Arch Linux) on my laptop in order to connect to wireless networks. I use the official GNOME GUI. Everything works fine, but after half an hour or so the network is still ...
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Can't set-up Wifi Adhoc on my Raspberry Pi with an USB dongle
I am trying to set-up an access point (ad-hoc) for my Raspberry Pi. That means I'm trying to "share" the ethernet connection over Wi-Fi. I am doing this using my Ralink Technology, Corp. RT2501/RT2573 ...
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How to get my Linux Wi-Fi to reliably roam from AP to AP
I'm trying to get my Linux to reliably roam from AP to AP. Right now I'm using iwlwifi - iwd - NetworkManager combo to manage everything and apart from roaming everything works reasonably well and I'm ...
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Kali Linux: Device won't switch Wi-Fi region
I have been using Linux for a while now, but I recently installed Linux on my old Windows laptop.
I live in Germany, which uses the WiFi channels 1-13.
However, iw phy only shows channels 1-11 to be ...
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why am I not seeing traffic using TCPDUMP while sniffing on wireless interface with the station in WDS mode
I've 2 wireless interfaces one has the type of AP and the other has the type monitor.
the AP is attached to a bridge br-lan.
When I run for example:
tcpdump port 5201 -s 0 -ni wlan0
TCPdump is not ...
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wicd does not automatically REconnect
I connect wirelessly to a router using wicd 1.7.2.4 on slackware 14. If I am not actively using the internet connection for some time then I lose the connection, but wicd does not automatically ...
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Computer-to-Computer network between OS X and Linux
I want to make a connection point to point via wifi between Mac and Linux.
What I did was:
I have created Computer-To-Computer network in OS X
I have set manually an ip address for Mac, 10.0.0.1/255....
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Linux network manager getting two ip addresses instead of one
I have a problem that when I connect to network using NetworkManager in Linux (doesn't happen when using wpa_supplicant but I don't like it) it gets two IPv4 addresses that show up as for example 192....
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NetworkManager defined HotSpot, can't connect from Android phone
The initial situation is quite simple:
I create a hotspot in a Linux machine: nmcli dev wifi hotspot con-name "John" (see below for the complete script)
I show the password (and QR code) ...
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wpa_supplicant disconnects with reason=3 on connection
I am using a raspberry pi 4 to connect to my college network (so using WPA-Enterprise using PEAP) using wpa_supplicant
when I run the command,
sudo wpa_supplicant -c/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant....
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Not able to apply changes for wireless driver in Ubuntu 20.04
I have been using ubuntu some older versions for a while . And few weeks back I installed ubuntu 20.04 in dual boot . And I have never faced this problem in the Wireless network to detect wifi.
I am ...
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libnl takes time to see a disconnected client
I am working on an embedded device, with a custom OS (Yocto on iMX6).
The device use hostapd to create a WLAN.
I use libnl to list the connected WiFi clients, my code is based on iw to get the ...
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