Raspberry Pi 3 WiFI hotspot?

I want to create a hotspot with my new rpi 3. But I cant get the build in wifi module in the master mode (AP)
Are there any drivers available for the rpi 3 wifi module to setup an hotspot?


Would you like to use your Pi as a WiFi router? Or maybe have it as a special filtering access point? Setting up a Pi as an access point (AP) is a bit more advanced than using it as a client, but its still only a half hour of typing to configure. If you want to, this tutorial will make it so the Pi broadcasts a WiFi service and then routes internet traffic to an Ethernet cable. Since its all Linux you can go in and update or configure it however you like.

I used the following pages as a guide to create this tutorial, please note many of them will not work completely, but check them out if you are interested!

https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=138550

I was looking for much the same information as you and to cut a l-o-n-g story short the answer appears to be "yes" you can use the new R3 in AP mode. I asked a similar question in a duplicate posting on this forum (general and networking areas) and received a very helpful pointer from DirkS as follows...

by DirkS » Sat Mar 05, 2016 2:57 pm
Yes, can be done. See view ... 70#p919980 for (partial) info...
***** end quote *****


I hope this helps. I have not had time to test this yet myself but I am optimistic it should work. The rest of the setting-up depends on your requirements.
I hope this is somewhat helpful in pointing you in the right direction.
Link above is broken. Correct one is
https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=137932&p=920070#p919980


Finally managed to get the bridge/hotspot up and running on the Pi3.
I used the tutorial provided here
https://learn.adafruit.com/setting-up-a-raspberry-pi-as-a-wifi-access-point/overview
and modifed the hostapd config to hash out the line including the driver to get the onboard wifi into AP mode(Info courtesy of DirkS and PiPuppy) . Im now getting my full broadband speeds through the Pi which is 30Mbps down and 4Mbps up.
Hope it helps


I used the following pages as a guide to create this tutorial, please note many of them will not work completely, but check them out if you are interested!

http://qcktech.blogspot.com/2012/08/raspberry-pi-as-router.html
http://itsacleanmachine.blogspot.com/2013/02/wifi-access-point-with-raspberry-pi.html
http://esrlabs.com/android-transporter-for-the-nexus-7-and-the-raspberry-pi/
http://elinux.org/RPI-Wireless-Hotspot
http://blog.mxard.com/persistent-iptables-on-raspberry-pi-raspbian