What hardware do I need? #1770
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Do I need a antenna or can I plug a ethernet Cable into my modem and broadcast with the built in chip. What I'm essentially asking is Do i need anything else except for a Raspberry Pi and maybe a ethernet cable? |
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As you don't say what version of pi you have it's difficult to say. An external antenna would give you better coverage. But also certain usb don't always works as good. |
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Pi 5 (8GB Ram) If I get a USB Antenna can I do WIFI to WIFI (For Travel Router) |
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Yes, but usually you don't need to, but if you don't you will be operating at half bandwidth, as one interface will be doing both connecting and sharing the new wlan. if you do chose to get a USB interface, make sure it is well supported by linux in general. Mediatek and Intel is usually a good choice but realtek is on the otherhand not so good, if you make sure it works with the kernel without any binary blobs tou should be good. Read https://docs.raspap.com/issues/#external-hardware if you are getting new hardware, otherwise you need to test it out, without any promises on what might work. |
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Also ubuntu is not supported atm see:#1767 if you do chose to test it out, please post your findings, to help the further development of the project. |
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See also this FAQ for a recommended list of adapters with in-kernel drivers. |
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Hi @brazier I would be interested in trying ubuntu as I was going to use eth0/wlan0 on my RPI 5 but I would prefer wlan1/wlan0. Do you have a link to setting up an ubuntu server? I have a wifi dongle from the approved list. I do have ubuntu on a mini PC so I am familiar with it but never tried on a RPi. So any help much appreciated. Thanks! |
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Its not going to work(out of the box) use debian bookworm or follow https://docs.raspap.com/manual/ did you read the other post at least? |
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I am sorry - I did not read your post on Ubuntu testing. I only picked up the thread on what hardware to use as that is where I saw your comment about wifi to wifi. I use RaspAP for travelling too and it's often very difficult to get an eth0 connection. You say use debian bookworm - is that what works for you? I will look into the manual setup but my coding may not be sufficiently good to get it to work! Apologies again. |
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Yes, but usually you don't need to, but if you don't you will be operating at half bandwidth, as one interface will be doing both connecting and sharing the new wlan. if you do chose to get a USB interface, make sure it is well supported by linux in general. Mediatek and Intel is usually a good choice but realtek is on the otherhand not so good, if you make sure it works with the kernel without any binary blobs tou should be good. Read https://docs.raspap.com/issues/#external-hardware if you are getting new hardware, otherwise you need to test it out, without any promises on what might work.