[raspberry-vi] Re: wifi and wpa_supplicant
- From: "Michael A. Ray" <mike.ray@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: raspberry-vi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 23:18:27 +0000
Hello Travis,
I bought them from www.modmypi.co.uk and they are recommended devices.
Currently my Raspbian Raspi seems to have managed to keep the
association with my AP for over 24 hours. But ssh is still either
impossible or flaky.
Mike
On 21/03/2013 22:08, Travis Roth wrote:
> Are you using a Wi-Fi adapter that the Raspi can handle?
> I have two here, one must take to much power and it just locks up the Raspi.
> The other one is very tiny, I tink it is an Edi? Its on Amazon and was
> recommended to work well with the Raspi and it does for me, and was
> recognized immediately by Raspbian and XBian.
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: raspberry-vi-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:raspberry-vi-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Michael A. Ray
> Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2013 10:38 AM
> To: raspberry-vi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [raspberry-vi] Re: wifi and wpa_supplicant
>
> Glenn,
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> I don't think I know any more. I'm just about to give up on wifi.
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> Over the two days or so since my dongles arrived I have tried all sorts of
> combinations. Some things seem to work and some sort of work.
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> My router page doesn't seem to be very reliable in truthfully showing what
> devices are attached to the wifi access point. And when I do get a Raspi
> successfully associated with the AP, shown by:
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> sudo iwconfig wlan-0
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> It seems to drop out after a few minutes.
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> The exception is this moring when I woke up and found the Raspbian Raspi
> still associated. But in all this I have only once succeeded in making an
> SSH connection over wifi, only to lose it after five minutes.
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> I've just about exhausted my patience with it.
>
> Mike
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> On 21/03/2013 01:21, Glenn wrote:
>> Mike,
>> How did you get it to connect manually?
>> Thanks.
>> Glenn
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Michael A. Ray" <mike.ray@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> To: <raspberry-vi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2013 8:37 AM
>> Subject: [raspberry-vi] wifi and wpa_supplicant
>>
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>> Hello listers, especially Glenn,
>>
>> I have finally got my Raspis to connect to my lan by my new wifi
>> dongles. But I'm currrently starting wpa_supplicant manually.
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>> I need to work out how to get wpa_supplicant to run at boot.
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>> In Raspbian there doesn't seem to be the usual
>> /etc/init.d/wpa_supplicant kind of way of starting it.
>>
>> Mike
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> --
> Michael A. Ray
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Michael A. Ray
Analyst/Programmer
Witley, Surrey, South-east UK
github username: cromarty
raspberrypi.org username: cromarty
Ham Radio Call-sign: G4XBF, licensed since 1982
'Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem' - Ockham's razor
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