Connecting RISC OS Pi to Wifi

Would a “certain” router be an Airport?

There was various including a TP Link (but 4+? year old design), a Billion and at least two others IIRC I don’t think Airport was mentioned.
We did get one TP-WR702N working for a few days connected to a PC but then it stopped working. IIRC the mode we were recommended to use by TP-Link wasn’t the mode we thought should have worked and we think used to work.

Just in case someone is interested in cheapest and very small solution, there is this 4G router on ebay for ~8USD including shipping (just search ebay for (4g portable router) which can be flashed with openwrt as described here http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/unbranded/a5-v11 and can be configured as wireless client to existing router while working as a router to the PI via its single ethernet socket. I have PI behind it working either via NAT or on its own subnet with static route on main router. Not sure if I can make the client bridge mode working as described here http://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/recipes/bridgedclient since openwrt doesn’t support it out of box.

There is also a ‘wifi router/extender on the back of a mains plug’ in Aldi at the moment, reduced to clear (£10 instead of £20). I bought one a couple of years ago, and it works fine with NetSurf.

For a year or so I’ve been using a Tenda W150M (Amazon) in its “Client+AP” mode, wired to a Pi, connecting wirelessly to the home router. It requires fiddly setup (1) by being wired to a computer with Javascript browser and (2) by needing that computer to have a fixed IP address during the setup and reverting to DHCP afterwards.

It’s therefore not as portable a kit as I would like. Taking the Pi and Tenda elsewhere has (so far) proved impossible to get to work with the local wifi. But I haven’t given up! With NOOBS Raspbian and RISC OS on the Pi’s SD card, it must be possible to get the setting up to work at distant meetings, shows, jams etc.

Bernard – our PiFi SD card that we launched at the show should be ideal for you. It’ll drive your existing WiFi adapter (or should do) whilst providing a “no javascript” RISC OS-friendly UI for connecting to available WiFi networks, and none of the static/DHCP trouble you mention. I’m told Rasbian is a bit poor for this kind of thing due to the age of some of its components, but that’s second hand info – I can’t say for sure.

I’ve so far seen only the description of the PiFi on Riscository, where it reads as if you use a second Pi to mediate between one’s RISC OS Pi and a wifi adapter, or have I got that wrong? Is there a fuller description on the R-Comp site?