Turn your Raspberry Pi into a wireless router/AP. Once booted the access point will create SSID "ArchWiPI" via network address translation (NAT).
- Raspberry Pi Model B Revision 2.0
- Power adapter with at least 1500 mA (2 amp recommended)
- Fat32 formated 1GB SD Card (2GB Recommended)
- Wifi USB dongle running rtl871xdrv. Eg. Edimax EW-7811Un.
- Network Cable with Internet access. (eg. Internet cable from your cable modem)
- Download my Arch Linux Wireless Raspberry Pi image: Download
- Extract it. eg: sudo tar zxf archwipi.img.tar.gz
- Write the extracted image to your SD card. eg: sudo dd if=archwipi.img of=/dev/sdb …change sdb if necessary. Don’t run this command if unsure!!!
- Optional – extend partition to use all of disk. You can use gparted.
- Plug your internet cable and new Arch WiPi SD card into your Raspberry and power it on.
- Everything is automated so after a minute or so scan for a new network SSID: ArchWiPi
- The wifi password password is: 1010101010
- If you need to login to the Pi the credentials are: root | ArchWiPi. (note that there’s a period “.” at the end)
- You can change the WiFi password to what ever you like by editing: /usr/lib/systemd/system/create_ap.service
- Check the CPU clock speed and temperature using ./cpustatus.sh or browse to this address 192.168.12.1:8080/archwipi (powered by Monitorix) Example from my stats page…