Wifi not working
Wifi not working
I have 2 hotspots that I have upgraded to 4.1.4 and now the wifi dongle no longer works. When they were on 3.4.17 they worked fine, but not after the upgrade. Both see the ralink rt2800 and iwconfig and ifconfig reports both wlan0 and wlan0_ap but it will not scan for SSIDs and the auto ap never shows up. This worked fine on 3.4.17 si I don’t know if it’s a setting or there’s an issue in the new kernel...
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If I turn off auto ap mode then the wifi will scan and find available SSIDs.
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Yes i can do either or both of those things, but i am using an approved dongle, so I thought there might be a fix for this issue.KE7FNS wrote: ↑Wed Mar 24, 2021 5:18 pmThen leave auto AP mode off. There seems to be some incompatibility with the dongle and the auto AP. Use the wifi builder to setup your network if you can't access the dashboard.
You could also just get a newer RPi with built in wifi and do away with the dongle altogether.
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The chipset I have (Ralink rt2800) is stated to work with pi-star which it does in version 3.4.17, I guess something has changed in version 4.1.4 that it is no longer compatible.KE7FNS wrote: ↑Wed Mar 24, 2021 7:26 pmThe only way someone can come up with a fix is to research and identify exactly what the problem is. The problem is that requires the exact same hardware as you, both that brand of dongle and I assume a RPi 1, or 2 since they are the ones without wireless. I have a wifi dongle laying around here somewhere but I don't know which chipset it has.
You mentioned you thought it was a kernel issue, and that cannot be the case because you said it works when the AP is off. If it was a kernel issue it wouldn't work at all. I'm pretty certain the kernel detects it correctly, it is the AutoAP that is incompatible for some unknown reason.
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I just saw another post where the person had the exact same issue, but with a different yet previously compatible dongle on version 4.1.0 so it does seem something has changed.KE7FNS wrote: ↑Wed Mar 24, 2021 9:57 pmI agree something changed with the AutoAP software, but without the exact same hardware as you I cannot test it and find out exactly what it was or if a fix is even possible. I checked my USB wifi and it is a different chipset.
3.4.17 is no longer supported due to the OS no longer being maintained. It reached its End Of Life. The OS that 4.0 is on is also EOL, but Andy has extended support for it due to COVID and repeater site access, once that is lifted it will also no longer be supported.
I suggest you just spend 10 bucks on a RPi Zero W, or 25 on a RPi3 or 4, and you will no longer have a need for the dongle.
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It says nl80211: could not configure driver mode deinit ifname=wlan0_ap disabled_11b_rates=0 driver initialization failedKE7FNS wrote: ↑Thu Mar 25, 2021 5:51 amWhats the log say? invalid/unknown driver??
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grep hostapd /var/log/syslog
I had read on the Armbian forum that there was some issues with the hostapd file and usb dongles.