Questions tagged [hostapd]

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Hosted based wifi hotspot works, but BSSID keeps changing - rPi 4, Raspian

Admittedly, I'm torn between posting this in SuperUser or ServerFault, so opinions of where this should go are welcome. I have a hotspot set up on my Raspberry Pi 4, running Raspian. I used hostapd to set it up, following the guide from the Pi…
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Use MAC address acls with hostapd

I am using hostapd to turn my pi into a wireless access point, I want to implement a blacklist to block certain device from connecting to the network. I should be able to do this at a MAC address level by including the following lines in the…
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Stop wifi beacon when idle

I have just bought a Raspberry Pi 4 and would like to use it as a wifi access point (for information, I will probably install Gentoo with hostapd in it). I would like this access point to be in “passive” mode, only listening to new device probes and…
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iOS devices cannot join AP created with hostapd if I enable EAP

I am trying to create an 802.1x EAP access point using a Raspberry Pi 4 and hostapd. It all seems to be working well on Windows as Windows devices can connect without issues, but when I try on iOS it gets to the point where the certificate of the…
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Pi 3 wifi access point

I want to create a dedicated wifi connection between my Raspberry Pi 3 and a windows 7 laptop. I thought the method here https://www.pi-point.co.uk/documentation/ would do the job. Managed to get the Pi wifi point visible from my windows laptop…
NeilK
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