Pi-Fi

Wireless daemon for the Raspberry Pi

Installation

Add the following to crontab to start the daemon at reboot.

$ crontab -e
@reboot pifi wlan0 -d /usr/sbin &

Print the state of the wireless interface

$ pifi wlan0 -s
Idle

# Idle
# AccessPoint
# AccessPoint_Hosting
# WiFi
# WiFi_Connecting
# WiFi_Reconnecting
# WiFi_Connected

List the wireless networks

$ pifi wlan0 -l
Network 1,Network 2,Network 3

# Network names are stored as comma-separated values

Disable the wireless interface

$ pifi wlan0 -i

Host an access point

$ pifi wlan0 -a "SSID" "passphrase"

Join a wireless access point

$ pifi wlan0 -w "SSID" "passphrase"