smartphone having issues connecting <-- SOLVED

[medudder]

Sup guys,
So i got a GL.iNet GL-AR300M16-Ext. Installing it was fairly easy thanks to some really good tutorials out there on youtube.
After installing and using it a bit i noticed that smartphones were having issues connecting like half of the times. My pc, on the other hand, connected without issues.
So after days and days of testing, i finally got a patch to work. Now my smartphne NEVER discconets from the pineapple. I'd be more than happy to share this patch with "Xchwarze" Perhaps he can implement it in future updates.

[xchwarze]

Hello! Put the patch here and in the next update I see you add it

[medudder]

Hey Xchawarse many thanks for this Tetra!!! love it. Hope to see the MKVII some day. :)))

Ok guys as said, i tried on my "GL.iNet GL-AR300M16-Ext" and it works like a charm! I will try it out on the mango to see if it works.
Let me know if it works for you.
Cheers
300m_patch.zip

[xchwarze]

I'm traveling and I don't have my pineapples, if you could attach the config folder and the resolve BEFORE and AFTER it would be helpful.
I understand that the uci defaults network is missing 1 or 2 lines. Maybe it is simply changing uci set network.lan.dns='8.8.8.8 8.8.4.4'.

[medudder]

You're right — part of the fix includes setting custom DNS servers via UCI, and also modifying resolv.conf. But that alone isn't the full fix.

i also made some interface and DHCP tweaks, plus a restart of dnsmasq. if you want, i can post the before and after here..Trust me, the difference is night and day.

[medudder]

Before & After: /etc/config/network (Relevant Part)
🔹 Before (Default after factory reset)

bash

config interface 'lan'
option type 'bridge'
option ifname 'eth1 wlan0 wlan0-1'
option proto 'static'
option ipaddr '172.16.42.1'
option netmask '255.255.255.0'

🔹 After Patch

bash

config interface 'lan'
option type 'bridge'
option ifname 'eth1 wlan0 wlan0-1'
option proto 'static'
option ipaddr '172.16.42.1'
option netmask '255.255.255.0'
option dns '8.8.8.8 8.8.4.4'

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You can also set it manually using:

uci set network.lan.dns='8.8.8.8 8.8.4.4'
uci commit network

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Before & After: /etc/resolv.conf

BEFORE:

search lan
nameserver 127.0.0.1

AFTER PATCH

nameserver 8.8.8.8
nameserver 1.1.1.1

You can apply this manually with:

echo -e "nameserver 8.8.8.8\nnameserver 1.1.1.1" > /etc/resolv.conf

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Extra Step That Makes It Work Reliably
After changing DNS settings, restart dnsmasq:

/etc/init.d/dnsmasq restart

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HOPE it helps. I HAVE ZERO dropped connections from my pineapple to my phone.

[xchwarze]

I understand that the file that configures it has one comma too many and that's why

wifi-pineapple-cloner/files/common/etc/95-network.sh

Line 7 in cea8e88

uci set network.lan.dns='8.8.8.8, 8.8.4.4'

the error is coming from... the real pineapple

[medudder]

Well I own the orginal mark v and nano, i could assure that this patch makes it more stable than the original. hope you can add it to future updates :)))

[xchwarze]

i understand that the correct fix is this in openwrt:
https://github.com/xchwarze/wifi-pineapple-cloner/blob/d591981823e61c6ed4c2870f73e744125cfd197c/files/common/etc/95-network.sh

with that alone it should handle everything fine. i don't understand if you have to reboot to make it do that.

[medudder]

GREAT!!! will it be possible to update from the GUI? or do we have to uboot and install everything from scratch.

I'm going to try this on the "GL.iNet GL-MT300N-V2" to see if works. I think it will, but I'd like to see if it works on other routers as well. I can't get a hold of the vast majority of those routers because they aren't available in the country i live in.

[xchwarze]

I am not going to make a release yet, since the process takes more than 6 hours, I do it once a year

[medudder]

in that case, I'll stick to the patches. :) Give it a try when you get your hands on the pineapple

[xchwarze]

try to clean your pineapple and run the
https://github.com/xchwarze/wifi-pineapple-cloner/blob/master/files/common/etc/95-network.sh
script to see if it works as expected without adding the force line as well.

[medudder]

let me first use the pineapple. i've been working on it for days trying to get it to be stable. It's finally working perfectly. You just gave me an idea.... how making a backup script. :) i might lookinto that