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Ruben

An exercise in frustration, a thread.

In the downtime between never-ending house reno’s I have been tinkering with an old Raspberry Pi 3 B. I am attempting to set it up as an Access Point. At the moment it runs with the old insecure WPA and refuses to connect via RSN.

My most recent attempt used a fresh Raspberry Pi OS (formerly known as Raspbian) install and I followed the official AP setup instructions, raspberrypi.com/documentation/

I have already thoroughly banged my head against the various hostapd & wpa_supplicant pathways. I have read and tried dozens of forum ‘solutions’.

At this stage I have nothing to lose so I am going to see if there is a firmware update…

WARNING: This update bumps to rpi-6.6.y linux tree
See: forums.raspberrypi.com/viewtop

'rpi-update' should only be used if there is a specific
reason to do so - for example, a request by a Raspberry Pi
engineer or if you want to help the testing effort
and are comfortable with restoring if there are regressions.

DO NOT use 'api-update' as part of a regular update process.

Woohoo, let’s go

Oh and by the way, that obviously didn’t work.

rpi-update AKA i-give-up…date

I actually have a life away from this keyboard and my coffee is cold.

Interestingly when I get the AP working with old WPA it is still faster than the existing off the shelf wifi AP.