[arm-allstar] External wifi adapter configuration

[Doug Crompton]

Nate,

 Since there are so many (hundreds) of better and worse wifi adapters we
don't support other than the internal wifi. So unfortunately you are on
your own on that. I might suggest an external antenna. Several have done
that when installing in shielded boxes. There is actually a labeled jack
for an exteernal antenna that requires a few modifications. Here is a
writeup on one...

https://hackaday.io/project/10091-raspberry-pi-3-external-antenna


*73 Doug*

*WA3DSP*

*http://www.crompton.com/hamradio <http://www.crompton.com/hamradio>*

On Wed, May 31, 2017 at 2:23 AM, "Nathaniel Biser via arm-allstar" <
arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> wrote:

> I have an external wifi adapter:
>
> https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00H95C0A2/ref=oh_aui_
> detailpage_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
>
> It works in Arch linux and other distros perfectly.  I would like to use
> this on my AllStar node as it has the ability of attaching an external
> antenna.
>
> I am a little lost on how to set this up on the arm-allstar platform. When
> I go to enable the wifi adapter in the Allstar wireless control menu, it
> only gives the option to enable/disable wlan0, however my adapter is wlan1.
>
> Is there a way to modify this menu to allow the enabling and disabling more
> than 1 wifi adapter? Or at least tweak it into using wlan1? Ideally, I want
> to disable wlan0 and enable wlan1 and keep it persistent when rebooted.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Nate
> KC3HOZ
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