I am trying to use a WiFi dongle with Android Nexus 6 with custom ROM and kernel. I have installed drivers of USB WiFi dongle on Android phone that appears at wlan1 network interface in adb shell. Whereas, the default WiFi appears at wlan0. However, I am unable to access or even ping the devices available on wlan1.
I have connected the USB dongle to it's WiFi and assigned an IP address:
iw dev wlan1 connect -w WiFi-XC
ip addr add 172.16.0.120/16 broadcast 172.16.255.255 dev wlan1
The dmesg show that the association to the WiFi AP is successful:
[ 242.667204] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan1: link is not ready
[ 245.599269] wlan1: authenticate with 70:b3:d5:95:94:6e
[ 245.599934] wlan1: send auth to 70:b3:d5:95:94:6e (try 1/3)
[ 245.603278] wlan1: authenticated
[ 245.604767] wlan1: associate with 70:b3:d5:95:94:6e (try 1/3)
[ 245.606292] wlan1: RX AssocResp from 70:b3:d5:95:94:6e (capab=0x421 status=0 aid=2)
[ 245.609720] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlan1: link becomes ready
[ 245.616657] wlan1: associated
The routing table looks like:
10.10.0.0/16 dev wlan0 proto kernel scope link src 10.10.10.108
172.16.0.0/16 dev wlan1 proto kernel scope link src 172.16.0.120
Whereas, the output of ifconfig looks like:
wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 44:80:eb:30:e5:03
inet addr:10.10.10.108 Bcast:10.10.255.255 Mask:255.255.0.0
inet6 addr: fe80::4680:ebff:fe30:e503/64 Scope: Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:3670 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:4500 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:854154 TX bytes:1080264
wlan1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 70:b3:d5:95:85:f1 Driver wifidongle
inet addr:172.16.0.120 Bcast:172.16.255.255 Mask:255.255.0.0
inet6 addr: fe80::72b3:d5ff:fe95:85f1/64 Scope: Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:487 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:29 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:30055 TX bytes:6051
When I try to ping the router at 172.16.0.10, or ping the device from router, the ping doesn't succeed. However, when I try to run nmap -sn 172.16.0.0/24
on the router to see the devices it can see, surprisingly it shows that it can see the device:
Starting Nmap 7.60 ( https://nmap.org ) at 2019-07-11 12:56 UTC
Nmap scan report for 172.16.0.120
Host is up (0.0017s latency).
I have a suspicion that both wlan0 and wlan1 cannot work at the same time. If this is the case, how can I take down wlan0. If this is not the case and both wlan0 and wlan1 can work at the same time, can someone suggest a solution?