raspberry ap -1

 http://www.daveconroy.com/turn-your-raspberry-pi-into-a-wifi-hotspot-with-edimax-nano-usb-ew-7811un-rtl8188cus-chipset/

 

 

Prerequisites

The first thing you need to do is make sure you have an existing wired connection to your rPi. After that, you need to install the following packages.

sudo apt-get install bridge-utils hostapd

The whole crux of the issue is that it is the apt hosted copy of hostapd that is not compatible with the RTL8188CUS chipset. But, thanks to the Edimax team, I’ve got a replacement hostapd binary to resolve this issue. This tutorial will not work without it.
To download and replace the installed binary version of hostapd we just installed, issue the following commands:

wget http://www.daveconroy.com/wp3/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/hostapd.zip unzip hostapd.zip sudo mv /usr/sbin/hostapd /usr/sbin/hostapd.bak sudo mv hostapd /usr/sbin/hostapd.edimax sudo ln -sf /usr/sbin/hostapd.edimax /usr/sbin/hostapd sudo chown root.root /usr/sbin/hostapd sudo chmod 755 /usr/sbin/hostapd

*Note, some people don’t like the idea of installing from untrusted 3rd parties, so if If would rather compile your own binary, you can download the realtek driver here . You will have to navigate to the ~/RTL8188C_8192C_USB_linux_v3.4.4_4749.20121105/wpa_supplicant_hostapd/wpa_supplicant_hostapd-0.8/hostapd and run a make, make install, then hostapd like i did above.

Bridge the Network Connections

Now that we have the proper hostapd installed, we need to create a bridge between our ethernet connection and our Edimax Wireless card. To do this, we need to edit our network interfaces:

sudo nano /etc/network/interfaces

To avoid any conflicts, you need to delete or comment out(#) any lines conatining wlan0 and then add the following text to bridge the connections, assuming your ethernet and wireless adapters are named eth0 and wlan0( use ifconfig -a to check)

auto br0
iface br0 inet dhcp
bridge_ports eth0 wlan0

The resulting file should look like this:

#loopback adapter
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
#wired adapter
iface eth0 inet dhcp
#bridge
auto br0
iface br0 inet dhcp
bridge_ports eth0 wlan0


Configuring Hostapd

Now that our interfaces are setup, we need to configure hostapd. To do so, create the following file

sudo nano /etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf

with the following contents:

interface=wlan0
driver=rtl871xdrv
bridge=br0
ssid=DaveConroyPi
channel=1
wmm_enabled=0
wpa=1
wpa_passphrase=ConroyPi
wpa_key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
wpa_pairwise=TKIP
rsn_pairwise=CCMP
auth_algs=1
macaddr_acl=0