You should use an extension cable. A si have said on the WIKI, the antennas are very weak on these and the noise from the board can interfere with the signal. I would use the short cable or get one with a real antenna on it.
Gerald On Sat, Oct 5, 2013 at 8:40 PM, Grigory Fishilevich <[email protected] > wrote: > So, here is my success story :) > > I tried a few days to get an EDIMAX 7811UN to work on my BBB with > Angstrom. The built-in rtl8192cu did not work, compiling realtek driver > from source was not helpful as well. An upgrade to image-2013.09.04 changed > nothing. > > The signal level was very weak and connection was lost, as soon BBB was 3 > meters far from my AP. > > Finally I got it out with disabling of HDMI. > My thoughts were: > why is there so much over HDMI in dmesg? > HDMI port is near USB ... > > So, what... I've mount the FAT partiotion and change the uEnv.txt to: > > optargs=quiet capemgr.disable_partno=BB-BONELT-HDMI,BB-BONELT-HDMIN > > Now, EDIMAX works without usb extension cable, seems to be stable and I > can put my board in an other room :) > > -- > For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "BeagleBoard" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
