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Bitcoin => Mining support => Topic started by: FergNZ on June 13, 2016, 09:13:14 PM

Title: WIFI on raspberry Pi for Avalon 6 miner or wifi bridge
Post by: FergNZ on June 13, 2016, 09:13:14 PM

I want to be able to add wifi to the raspberry Pi that runs my Avalon 6

OR

Use a spare raspberry Pi to make a wifi bridge
Wifi on dongle, use the Ethernet out to a switch to miners

I want to do this as miners are not practical in my living room with the router.
Need to have in spare room or garage.

Title: Re: WIFI on raspberry Pi for Avalon 6 miner or wifi bridge
Post by: hexafraction on June 20, 2016, 01:55:27 PM

Wifi on a Raspberry Pi is fairly straightforward. Just obtain a wireless dongle (Adafruit.com sells them and accepts Bitcoin if you're in one of the countries they ship to) and configure the Pi to connect to the network. Since the Pi runs openwrt you can use these instructions (https://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/uci/wireless). Please let us know if you have any trouble.

Title: Re: WIFI on raspberry Pi for Avalon 6 miner or wifi bridge
Post by: FergNZ on June 25, 2016, 06:47:49 AM

ok i have not been able to add wifi with a wifi dongle for avalon 6

but i have got a wifi extender from netgear that is working fine

http://www.netgear.co.nz/home/products/networking/wifi-range-extenders/WN3000RP.aspx?cid=gwmng

Title: Re: WIFI on raspberry Pi for Avalon 6 miner or wifi bridge
Post by: klaaas on June 27, 2016, 08:17:26 AM

Quote from: FergNZ on June 25, 2016, 06:47:49 AM

Some wifi chipsets are plug and play some are not., check your stick here
http://elinux.org/RPi_USB_Wi-Fi_Adapters

Title: Re: WIFI on raspberry Pi for Avalon 6 miner or wifi bridge
Post by: BigBoom3599 on June 28, 2016, 09:48:45 AM

I've used this dongle for the past months with my RPi and it works fine http://www.tp-link.com/lb/products/details/cat-11_TL-WN725N.html (http://www.tp-link.com/lb/products/details/cat-11_TL-WN725N.html)
It's not the fastest but it is really cheap and easy to set up.