Thanks for your post. I tried setting up WiFi a while back but faced the same problem...connection lost after few seconds. After turning off power-save, it works fine now.
On Friday, June 28, 2013 10:19:58 AM UTC-7, William C Bonner wrote: > > It turns out that I didn't have things working correctly. When I powered > down everything and moved it to a room closer to the access point,. the > unit never came up on wireless. I'm still working on the boot-wireless > scenario. > > I'd been able to do most of what I wanted with iw, I'd just missed the > power setting. Also, iwconfig nicely lists the current power setting as > part of the status, but I'd not figured out how to see the current setting. > > After typing that, I decided to try something and feel a bit stupid. > > root@beaglebone:~# /usr/sbin/iw dev wlan0 get power_save > Power save: off > root@beaglebone:~# /usr/sbin/iw dev wlan0 set power_save on > root@beaglebone:~# /usr/sbin/iw dev wlan0 get power_save > Power save: on > root@beaglebone:~# /usr/sbin/iw dev wlan0 set power_save off > root@beaglebone:~# /usr/sbin/iw dev wlan0 get power_save > Power save: off > > I just now managed to get the unit to boot and connect to wireless. I'd > deleted the conman-created > directory > /var/lib/connman/wifi_98fc11cceea1_57696d73576f726c642d3547_managed_psk/ > and it's children files before I shutdown. > > Also, when I just ran /usr/sbin/iw dev wlan0 get power_save > Power save: on > > so I may have been barking up the wrong tree with the power issues. > > > > On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 8:06 AM, Koen Kooi <[email protected]<javascript:> > > wrote: > >> >> Op 28 jun. 2013, om 06:30 heeft William C Bonner >> <[email protected]<javascript:>> >> het volgende geschreven: >> > >> > I had to run "opkg install wireless-tools" to get iwconfig, because it >> wasn't part of the standard installation. >> >> 'iwconfig' is deprecated, use 'iw', which is part of the base install. >> See http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Documentation/iw for usage tips. >> >> -- >> 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] <javascript:>. >> 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.
