Hello there!

 

Maybe mine is a bit of a newbie question so I'll drop it here:

My cubox is set as an access point using an Edimax EW7822UAC dongle although it is only in AC mode. Is there a way to set it to run also as a N ap or it requires another usb dongle? 

 

Thank you guys

2 minutes ago, MasterControl90 said:

or it requires another usb dongle

Yes. No other way. 

8 minutes ago, Igor said:

Yes. No other way. 

A reply from the boss himself, I'm honoured.

 

Ok I'll give it a shot as soon as possible and share my experience, thank you!

Don't worry. It works

 

You only need to run hostapd with multiple configuration files. 

9 hours ago, Igor said:

Don't worry. It works

 

You only need to run hostapd with multiple configuration files. 

So... I "yolo'ed" it a little bit, in a nutshell this is what I did:

Copied the current /etc/hostpad.conf to /etc/hostpadAC.conf
Shutdown the machine
Disconnected the current AC dongle and connected the N one in the other usb port
remade the hostpad.conf using armbian-config

edited /etc/default/hostpad to include both config files like this ---> DAEMON_CONF="/etc/hostapd.conf /etc/hostapdAC.conf"

edited /etc/init.d/hostpad to include both config files like this ---> DAEMON_CONF="/etc/hostapd.conf /etc/hostapdAC.conf"

Both access points are here but only the N one works, the AC one gets stuck at "gathering ip address" on my smartphone.

 

What this noob (me) did wrong? What is missing?