Make your Raspberry Pi as Wireless Access Point in 1 minute

Raspberry Pi can do the Internet sharing job for you when you have ethernet but no router. Here is the simplest also quickest solution with create AP for Raspberry Pi 3 Model B.

btw, Wolfie is a dog :P

0. install dependencies:

sudo apt-get install util-linux procps hostapd iproute2 iw haveged dnsmasq

1. install create ap:

git clone https://github.com/oblique/create_ap
cd create_ap
sudo make install

2. make sure you turn on the WLAN-adapter (most likely it is named as 'wlan0') and the ethernet works as well (most likely it is named as 'eth0'), check them with

ifconfig

3. make your wireless AP

sudo create_ap wlan0 eth0 wifi_ap_name password

or with nohup

nohup sudo create_ap wlan0 eth0 wifi_ap_name password

Done!

Trouble I have：

of course this solution will also work on the laptop. But I have a problem with Amazon Echo. When using Raspberry Pi as access point, echo always lost connections. But with laptop as access point, echo works flawlessly. I think there is something with 2.4GHz and 5GHz, but I am not quite sure.

Postscript：

• An alternative official solution
• Clearer solution in English
• Solution in german ( with more detailed setting)

ThatWolfieFeeling
18.07.2018