I tried a wireless bridge... it sucked... totally.
Want one?...lol
There are some crappy ones out there for sure...but the one I linked is pretty awesome for those just now starting to wonder about how to put their miner on wireless and don't want to jump through a lot hoops to do it.
sure... all helps...
I was not satisfied at all with a bridge, it liked to drop connections randomly...
The laptop's range is like 10x as far, gets waaay better reception, and has never dropped the connection in 6 days so far...
The old WinXP laptop has a wireless that I disabled for testing this RPI router. Since wasn't all too difficult I might try making it the wireless router instead of the RPI. It does only have XP home so auto config is out but with the route command it should be possible.
Just off the treadmill and a couple of thoughts. Must get DHCP working on the RPi assigning addresses to the .2.0 network so I don't have to add a static address to whatever is to the RJ45 connector. But with the hot pepper USB connection, I can just plug it into the RPi and run cgminer on the RPi and it will be handled on the 1.0 network to wlan0. I would need the RPi net .2.0 routing for the Merc tho as that would be to the RPi RJ45.
Simpler is to really draw the heat out of the BBB. I have my first native BBB and haven't fired it up yet. Different by far than Debian/Ubuntu/Rasperian linux, no apt-get to install programs. Still I'm sure it comes native with whyfri pre-configured. I have old racks of three fans that would plug into a CD drive opening, 12v, and as they're small, I think I'll put standoffs on the native BBB, add braces to fit the smaller 12v fan, and swap the native BBB for the Merc BBB. The fan will be blowing down on the wrong side of the BBB pcb to best cool the warmest chip, but should work. Then bringing out the USB on a cable, put in a USB wifi and wake up the Merc with the ASIC disconnected and no RJ45 ethernet connected and see if DHCP assigns an address to the BBB.