[arm-allstar] External wifi adapter configuration

[David McGough]

Hi Nathan,

I'm assuming you're got a RPi3?

>From a WiFi interface standpoint, the on-board WiFi adapter is preferred,
hands-down. The reasoning for this is because the RPi3 WiFi is interfaced
to a secondary on-SoC high-speed serial port--it does NOT use USB. So, the 
on-board WiFi has no impact on the USB bus or USB latency.

If you're wanting/needing to go to a high-performance WiFi solution, I 
highly recommend going to an Ethernet attached device, such as Ubiquiti 
and many other provide--for a few extra dollars, you're getting a WiFi 
solution that's literally orders of magnitude better and maybe even more 
importantly, easily maintainable.

73, David KB4FXC







On Wed, 31 May 2017, "Nathaniel Biser via arm-allstar" 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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