Hello every one, First, Wil, thank you very much for your help. But the problem is I have to use ubuntu instead of angstrom. I have the wifi working(ediMax adaptor). But it is very unreliable.
For example ,by typing ifconfig in the terminal, I can see the wlan0 is activating and I can see wifi IP address. But it cannot be connected(ssh for example) or ping through. Sometimes rebooting solve the problem sometimes does not. Also, WIFI speed is terrible(200KB/S). I am doing video streaming on beaglebone black, 200KB/S is not enough. Is there anyone can give me a good solution for this? Is there any other reliable WIFI adaptor to recommend? Thank you so much! Mengjun On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 9:40 PM, Wilfredo Nieves <[email protected]>wrote: > 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.
