TommyTorty10@TommyTorty10@infosec.exchange
Today i spent a bunch of time going nowhere trying to configure a raspberry pi 4 with raspberry pi os to act as a wifi to ethernet bridge.
I think I might try to configure one of the "cpu nodes" in my server, running Mint to bridge instead. In theory it should be similar if not exactly the same, but ive had no luck with the pi. I suppose I could try pfsense. Idk, I'll decide when I have patience for that again.
TommyTorty10@TommyTorty10@infosec.exchange
Ok, so I got openwrt "working". The raspberry pi is definitely haunted by the ghosts of a dead installation, but if it gives me Internet from afar, that's fine.
I followed a couple guides to get a bridge setup, but for some reason, the pi wouldn't talk to the router at all. Openwrt says it's connected. The router doesn't list it as a client, and I cant ping anything from the pi. I try a bunch of things to no effect and decide to start over with a fresh image. I use rpi-imager. I power on the pi and connect a thinkpad to try to log in to the web ui like I did before, but it wont connect at all. I try various things for awhile and decide the data must have gotten corrupted the second time I flashed the sd card. I take the sd card, format the whole card, quick, no overwrite, in order to try to make things real clean. I flash openwrt to it for a 3rd time. I power on the pi. I enter the IP for the webui, and it redirects me to the login page for the router . . . like it's a working bridge all properly configured with the wifi password and everything . . . even though I rewrote openwrt to the sd card twice . . .
Im sure there's some logical explanation like openwrt caches some stuff to something on the pi itself or maybe the sd card held some data, cuz I didn't overwrite it, but I think it's more fun to believe
Pi's haunted