Thank you for all the information. This is my experience with reliable wifi. This took me 4 days and 4 night(mares):
I had all kinds of problems. Maybe the most important is that the Micro-USB-Stick N150 (Netgear) does not work reliably. It was possible to setup a WiFi connection but it broke down all the time. The much more stable hardware is the stick described by Carl Johnson in his first post (the bigger size netgear stick using the ath9k_htc driver). I had no luck with Angstrom, the wifi stick was recognized and a dhcp request startet, but succeeded only 1 of 10 times. So I ended up with Ubuntu saucy: http://rcn-ee.net/deb/rootfs/saucy/ubuntu-13.10-console-armhf-2014-01-24.tar.xz and the instructions from this site: http://elinux.org/BeagleBoardUbuntu (Debian or Ubuntu is the same procedure) To setup the stick I modified /etc/network/interfaces: auto wlan0 iface wlan0 inet dhcp wpa-ssid "MYSSID" wpa-psk "MYPASSPHRASE" and the same for WLAN1 !!!! I found out that changing from one stick to another may switch from wlan0 to wlan1, even if you power off. And tested it according: http://embeddedprogrammer.blogspot.de/2013/01/beaglebone-using-usb-wifi-dongle-to.html as Carl already suggested. Everything worked fine, so I removed the LAN cable and rebooted the bone. Now comes the important thing: WAIT at least 2 to 3 minutes. It takes 2:30 minutes until the blue LED on the stick gets lit. For any reason I don't know: at a later time it booted MUCH faster. I checked my DHCP router when the bone requested the IP. Then it took some more time until I was able to SSH into the board via wifi. But after that time all went really nice. To test the wifi link I copied a 100MB file repeatedly until 100 GB were copied. All went well. My WLAN router can do 54Mbit, but iwconfig showed 15Mbit only. I have no idea why, but I am happy that all works well so 15M is good enough for all my needs. This setup needs 650 MB on my SD card. What I learned in these 4 night and days: * use ubuntu (not Angstrom) * use saucy (not raring, I did not get it working with raring) * never use these tiny N150 micro sticks. Harry -- 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.
