The WiFi access is set up in my Pi 3-B using hostapd as shown in this link. I'm able to connect to it through WiFi, but don't know how to SSH into it.
Previously, it was possible to connect to it over SSH through a common WiFi network by using its allotted wlan0 IP, but as I made it into an AP, I am not able to do that.
Is there any way to SSH (or any mode of remote access) to the Pi in which you are connected as an AP-client?
Solved! The problem was with the DHCP setup. After following this post, I was able to connect to it by specifying the static IP address specified to the wlan0.
The method uses udhcpd package for DHCP management (not sure as to why dnsmasq never worked for me).
The static address was specified in the /etc/network/interfaces file like so
iface wlan0 inet static
address 192.168.43.2
netmask 255.255.255.0
Hence it was possible to access it through the client system (which was connected to it using the Pi-3's own in-built WiFi) using this IP address
$ ssh [email protected]
[email protected]'s password:
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Last login: Sun Jul 31 15:21:56 2016 from 192.168.42.20
pi@raspberry:~ $
I am also able to do this even without the Ethernet connected.
If you don't want to mess with configurations, install RPi-Wireless-Hotspot and it will did all for you, dhcp, dns, etc. I was messing configuring dhcp, dnsmasq, interfaces, bridges and can't put it in production, and with this in 5 minutes you have it working very well.
