On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 7:06 PM, Harry May <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
ssh keys are generated on first bootup... It takes some time.. Regards, -- Robert Nelson http://www.rcn-ee.com/ -- 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.
