Sorry for the delay. I finally found what was preventing my laptop from connecting to the box : the wireless adapter on my laptop supports only n wifi.
I uncommented the following lines in /opt/piratebox/conf/hostapd.conf to enable n wifi :
and it works.
I uncommented the following lines in /opt/piratebox/conf/hostapd.conf to enable n wifi :
# Remove # to enable n wifi mode ieee80211n=1 wmm_enabled=1 ht_capab=[HT40+][SHORT-GI-40][DSSS_CCK-40] hw_mode=g
and it works.