Turn your Raspberry Pi into a Wireless Access Point

Turn your Raspberry Pi into a Wireless Access Point

Welcome and thank you for dropping by. If you're a Raspberry Pi owner and are curious about some of the  things you can do with it then this is where you can learn how to turn it into a WiFi Access Point.

There's all sorts of reasons why you may want to do this...

• Extend your existing WiFi network
• Learn more about wireless networking
• Create a free Access Point
• Build a honeytrap to learn about network-hardening
• Provide guest wireless access firewalled off/through your main network

Given that you have a Pi, though one of the main reasons is likely to be 'because you can' !

I hope you find this useful!

- Guy Eastwood 

Raspbian-Minimal Card image available!

Based off the stripped-back Pi-Point image, I've made a minimal Raspbian image which boots with an SSHd server running and that's about it. It's had the Pi-Point stuff stripped out, too, to provide a pretty lean setup into which you can install what you need. Requires a 1GB SD Card or larger. 

New WPA2-Personal hostapd config added!

A big thanks to Simon Gibbon for his hostapd config contribution here : 

WPA2-Personal hostapd configuration

Contributed by Simon Gibbon

interface=wlan0
driver=nl80211
ssid=RPiSSID
hw_mode=g
channel=1
macaddr_acl=0
auth_algs=1
ignore_broadcast_ssid=0
wpa=2
wpa_passphrase=raspberry
wpa_key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
wpa_pairwise=TKIP CCMP
rsn_pairwise=TKIP CCMP

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