Sharing "Student Access" wifi with a Raspberry Pi
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Hardware
The hardware required includes:
- Raspberry Pi
- Laptop with access to the "Student Access" network (Admin Required)
- USB type C cable
- Ethernet Cable
- Micro SD Card
- Either a MIcro SD to SD or USB to Micro SD adapter
Setting up the SD card
- Insert the SD card into the laptop
- Install the Raspberry Pi imaging tool (https://downloads.raspberrypi.org/imager/imager_latest.exe)
- Run the imaging tool, and select Raspberry Pi OS Lite for the OS and your SD card as the media
- Write the image to the drive, and remove the drive from the laptop
Setting up the laptop
- Open control panel
- Network and Internet
- Network and Sharing Center
- Change adapter settings
- Right click the wireless adapter, Properties
- Sharing, check "Allow other network users to connect through this computer's Internet connection"
- Select "Ethernet" on the drop-down that says "Select a private network connection" and hit OK
Configuring the Pi
- Insert the SD card into the Pi and plug it in to the laptop via ethernet and USB-C
- After it boots, open Command Prompt on the laptop
- arp -a to find the IP of the Pi
- ssh pi@<IP>
- password is raspberry
- change the password to whatever you want with "sudo passwd pi"
- update and upgrade "sudo apt update && sudo apt full-upgrade"
- reboot
- sudo raspi-setup
- set the wireless location to the us
- reboot
- sudo apt install curl
- curl -sL https://install.raspap.com | bash
- default ssid is raspui-webgui and password is ChangeMe
- default webgui user is admin and password is secret