Raspberry Pi - PirateBox with Realtek R8188EU

Here is a small script I made to setup PirateBox with a Realtek R8188EU wifi dongle on a Raspberry Pi. It consists of basically removing the hostapd binaries that come by default with PirateBox, compiling Realtek's own version of hostapd (taken from jenssegers github repo) ,  moving the new binaries to /usr/bin and changing the hostapd.conf file with the proper driver.

	echo "Removing hostapd binaries..."
	sudo rm /usr/bin/hostapd*
	echo "Downloading jenssegers hostapd for R8188EU.."
	wget https://github.com/jenssegers/RTL8188-hostapd/archive/v2.0.tar.gz
	echo "Extracting files..."
	tar -zxvf v2.0.tar.gz
	echo "Changing directory to RTL8188-hostapd-2.0/hostapd..."
	cd RTL8188-hostapd-2.0/hostapd
	echo "Compiling..."
	sudo make
	echo "Moving binaries to /usr/bin..."
	sudo mv hostapd /usr/bin
	sudo mv hostapd_cli /usr/bin
	echo "Replacing hostapd.conf..."
	sudo mv /opt/piratebox/conf/hostapd.conf /opt/piratebox/conf/hostapd.conf.bck
	sudo mv rpix_hostapd.conf /opt/piratebox/conf/hostapd.conf
	echo "Restarting piratebox service..."
	sudo systemctl restart piratebox.service
	echo "Done."

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	# Basic configuration
	interface=wlan0
	ssid=PirateBox
	channel=1
	#bridge=br0
	# WPA and WPA2 configuration
	macaddr_acl=0
	auth_algs=1
	ignore_broadcast_ssid=0
	#wpa=3
	#wpa_passphrase=1234
	#wpa_key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
	#wpa_pairwise=TKIP
	rsn_pairwise=CCMP
	# Hardware configuration
	driver=rtl871xdrv
	ieee80211n=1
	hw_mode=g
	device_name=RTL8192CU
	manufacturer=Realtek

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