I am setting up a Raspberry Pi 2 as an access point within my home office. I have connected the ethernet and configured the WLAN. I have not yet setup hostapd
as I have connectivity problems.
If the wlan interface is up it is not possible to connect to the Pi in anyway, however if I issue ifconfig wlan0 down
then I am able to connect using SSH.
This is my /etc/network/interfaces
file:
source-directory /etc/network/interfaces.d
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
iface eth0 inet dhcp
allow-hotplug wlan0
iface wlan0 inet static
address 192.168.50.252
netmask 255.255.255.0
(The /etc/network/interfaces.d
directory is empty).
I cannot see what the issue is at all. ifconfig
reports that everything is OK, but when wlan0
is up it is not possible to connect. I am sure I am missing something very simple.