Hello Everybody, Why not try network manager instead of connman. I was having trouble with getting the wifi (Linksys WUSB100v2) to work. Removed connman and installed network manager, installed the drivers with opkg and it worked perfect on the first try. I have had it running for about a week now besides the occasional reboot to get VNC back up and wifi is still working good. Haven't tested speed yet but it seems to be running good for being G and considering that my phones data connection runs circles around my home data connection (best i can get in BFE unless i spend almost triple for only double the speed).
-Wil On Tuesday, November 19, 2013 5:14:16 PM UTC-7, [email protected] wrote: > > Hi Carl, > > I have the similar problem. I was using edimax based on rtl891cu chipset. > The wifi is on and off from time to time. Also it's very slow. I am going > to try your solution. May I ask which driver do you use for NetGear WNA > adaptor? What speed can you get by using this adaptor? > > Thanks, > > Mengjun > > On Thursday, May 2, 2013 11:12:25 AM UTC-4, Carl Johnson wrote: >> >> I have been trying for over a month to get reliable WiFi working on the >> original BeagleBone and now on the new BeagleBone Black. I kept seeing >> weird behavior, such as randomly dropped or stuttering connections, and >> different symptoms depending upon whether the WiFi dongle was plugged >> directly into Bone, into an extension cable, or into a powered hub. >> There's a lot of online frustration about this, some of which I contributed >> to. It was really unclear to me if the problem was hardware or software >> related, or some combination of the two. >> >> Long story short, I believe that most of my problems stemmed from >> attempting to use dongles based upon the rtl8192cu chipset (I tried several >> different ones). These are very common, widely available, and appear at >> first glance to have the best software support on the Bone, at least in the >> standard Angstrom distribution. Most of the online tutorials about how to >> get WiFi running on the Bone are using these dongles. I don't know if or >> why the people who wrote these are getting reliable WiFi - I sure didn't. >> >> Robert Nelson suggested that I try using a dongle using an Atheros >> chipset. I ordered a NetGear WNA1100 but soon discovered that it won't run >> in the Angstrom distribution, which by default doesn't provide the >> ath9k_htc driver and associated firmware. This was really disappointing to >> me, since I had already made quite an investment in learning all about >> Angstrom. I was able to bitbake a >> version<http://www.angstrom-distribution.org/building-angstrom>of the >> distribution that included the driver, but was unable to build or >> find a version of the firmware that would work in Angstrom. I have since >> given up and switched to Ubuntu, which includes support for this dongle >> natively. My WiFi is now rock solid with this adapter. >> >> A plea to the makers: please bundle the ath9k_htc driver and associated >> firmware <http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/ath9k_htc> with >> the standard Angstrom distribution. >> >> t >> *l;dr: Install Ubuntu >> <http://embeddedprogrammer.blogspot.com/2012/10/beaglebone-installing-ubuntu-1210.html> >> >> on the Bone (I used the latest raring image >> <http://rcn-ee.net/deb/rootfs/raring>), buy this dongle >> <http://www.amazon.com/Netgear-WNA1100-802-11n-Wi-Fi-Adapter/dp/B0036R9XRU/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1367506309&sr=8-1&keywords=wna1100>, >> >> follow these directions >> <http://embeddedprogrammer.blogspot.com/2013/01/beaglebone-using-usb-wifi-dongle-to.html> >> >> to get reliable WiFi.* >> Thanks to all who attempted to help me - hopefully this post will help >> others. >> >> -- 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.
