WPA using Raspberry Pi 3B+ default wifi.

Hello all, I am new to this and wanted to set up a box that has a password. I looked around and found that editing the hostapd.conf could enable WPA and have people enter a password before connecting to my box.

I followed what the file itself said first but soon could not find the box on the list of avaible connections. Afterward I looked on here and under mods there was even more settings I could set, so I edited the file and added those in as well, but again could not find the box. Here is what my file looks like now, I can find it now but it does not have WPA enabled like I wanted. Am I doing something wrong?

interface=wlan0
driver=n180211
ssid=PrivateBox


channel=1


# Remove # to enable n wifi mode
#ieee80211n
#wmm_enabled=1
#ht_capab=[HT40+][SHORT-GI-40][DSSS_CCK40]
#hw_mode=g

# Put a # in front of the following line to allow
# direct client 2 client connection
ap_isolate=1
#macaddr_acl=0
# Uncomment the following lines to enable WPA
#wpa=1
#auth_algs=1
#wpa_key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
#wpa_pairwise=TKIP CCMP
#rsn_pairwise=CCMP
#wpa_passphrase=taco

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/03/2018 02:32AM by Nodding.

Hi,

you probably commented out the line

#hw_mode=g

which would cause the issue. So to enable the wifi network again, simply remove the #, so change to

hw_mode=g

Then if you want to enable WPA, you have to remove the # signs form the lines at the end of the file as well, so

wpa=1
auth_algs=1
wpa_key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
wpa_pairwise=TKIP CCMP
rsn_pairwise=CCMP
wpa_passphrase=taco

For the future, it is always useful to make a backup of a file before you edit it, just in case you need to revert or check something.

Ubuntuhak, playing and tinkering with Ubuntu!

I had just reinstalled the OS and did nothing but uncomment the lines after it saying to enable WPA, and it works fine now. I think i messed around too much. Strangley, wpa was by default set to 2, so I think that was my problem. Thank you for the file advice, I would do that when I get more comfortable with the command line!