Wireless devices won't connect to laptop piratebox wifi network with fresh Ubuntu install

Hello all


So i got everything installed after following the laptop install tutorial, but i have a problem...

Everything appears to have installed correctly and i can see the WiFi network being made by the piratebox laptop. But none of my devices will obtain an IP address from it. I am guessing something is wrong with the DHCP lease for clients but i am unsure.


Would love some help with this, Thanks everyone

Hi,
when you say, you use Ubuntu did you disable & stop the dnsmasq service?
The damn thing on Ubuntu and Debian is, that they start&enable the installed daemon during installation. (enable means that it will be started during system start).

If dnsmasq doesn't work with the delivered&generated configuration done by PirateBoxScripts, usually another instance of that program is already running.
To verify it, you can run while PirateBox is not started

ps -ef  | grep dnsmasq

So check if you get some output.

regards Matthias

after running

ps -ef  | grep dnsmasq

I do indeed see that dnsmasq is running on computer startup..

after running

sudo kill <process number> 

on the process I then start piratebox using

 sudo ./opt/piratebox/init.d/piratebox start 

and it works fine

I found how to remove the dnsmasq from startup from here

Quote
http://askubuntu.com/questions/63131/where-is-dnsmasq-started-and-configured
The dnsmasq startup script is /etc/init.d/dnsmasq. It's called by symlinks from the /etc/rcX.d/ directories, for example: /etc/rc2.d/S15dnsmasq

If you don't want it to start, you can edit /etc/default/dnsmasq and change "ENABLED=1" to "ENABLED=0" which will tell it not to run in daemon mode. and not start on computer boot.

Thanks so much for a quick reply


PS: I found a issue with the imageboard install. There is a file called forum.html in the directory /opt/piratebox/www that links to /board when it should link to /board/index.html

Without this change the forum link at the top of the piratebox pages links to the folder and shows the contents of /opt/piratebox/share/board instead of going to the board home page at index.html

I can provide screenshots if needed upon request.

Cheers, Darkskynet



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/09/2015 08:03AM by Darkskynet.

Hi,
thanks for the quick feedback.
The problem with the forum.html is, it is obsolete and not used for the URL at the top menu

But thanks

regards
Matthias