Raspberrypi Wireless?

raspberrypi67

Hi Folks,

Just wondering if anyone has successfully managed to get a Raspberrypi going using 'wireless' dongle ?
Everything else on mine is working and I've tried about 3 different solutions from all the stuff on the net but none seem to work for me unfortunately. I guess the first thing to get right is the correct dongle,
Any clues....? Cheers

Ruu

I have XMBC on the Pi and don't recall having to do any set up at all with the dongle. I used the Edimax EW-7811Un that came with it.

CreepingDeath

Same here, I used a known Edimax wifi dongle, but I bought and configured it myself after a bit of hassle.

Mac filtering, WEP/WPA and whether or not you broadcast your SSID on your router can stop you connecting.
There was a special parameter I had to set on the rpi network config because I didn't broadcast my SSID on the router.

CreepingDeath

Here's my /etc/network/interfaces file

auto lo

iface lo inet loopback
iface eth0 inet dhcp

auto wlan0
allow-hotplug wlan0
iface wlan0 inet dhcp
  wpa-scan-ssid 1
  wpa-ap-scan 1
  wpa-ssid "MY_SSID"
  wpa-psk "MY_PASSWORD"

iface default inet dhcp

PrzemoF

Have you tried external usb hub to make sure it's not power supply problem?

raspberrypi67

thanks for the tips

ressem

Have you the Raspbian operating system?

By default it'll look like...
/etc/network/interfaces

auto lo

iface lo inet loopback
iface eth0 inet dhcp

allow-hotplug wlan0
iface wlan0 inet manual
wpa-roam /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
iface default inet dhcp

/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf

ctrl_interface=DIR=/var/run/wpa_supplicant GROUP=netdev
update_config=1

network={
        ssid="mynetworkname"
        psk="mypassword"
        proto=RSN
        key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
        pairwise=CCMP
        auth_alg=OPEN
}

When the correct values are placed in the wpa_supplicant.conf file, it is usually possible to start the wireless lan using the command...

sudo  wpa_supplicant -Dwext -iwlan0 -c/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf

using the generic wext wireless driver.

If this works for you then you should be able to use

ifconfig wlan0

and it should have picked up an ip address from your DHCP server.

It should now be possible to stop and start the wireless card using the wpa_gui "wifi config" program on the raspbian default desktop.