[HELP] Something is not working right.

I followed the old manual installation for piratebox on RasberryPi to the letter. I rebooted my Pi and everything seemed good. I have a Pi 3(and thus am not using a wireless adapter) and the "PirateBox- Share Freely" access point showed up in the wifi options. The problem is when I try to connect using a computer it just shows the wifi bars going up and down as if it is trying to connect but never does. Please help.

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I followed the old manual installation for piratebox on RasberryPi to the letter.

What is the old manual instruction? Can you please provide a link to review it?

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The problem is when I try to connect using a computer it just shows the wifi bars going up and down as if it is trying to connect but never does. Please help.

I guess, that dnsmasq is started twice preventing that an IP was handed out to the client. Try the following:

sudo systemctl stop dnsmasq
sudo systemctl disable dnsmasq
sudo systemctl restart piratebox

best regards
Matthias