Give it a couple of hours - it will die. I've tried it with the Edimax EW-7811Un and the Netgear WNA1100 (the biger stick) - same thing.
On Monday, January 27, 2014 6:58:06 AM UTC-7, RobertCNelson wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 7:06 PM, Harry May <[email protected] <javascript:>> > 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. > If you have an Ethernet cable connected to the router, it's less than 30 seconds to a live network connection, either hard-wired or the wifi. I've found that without the RJ-45 cable, wifi takes 3 minutes or so to come up - waiting for the eth0 to respond? > > ssh keys are generated on first bootup... It takes some time.. > Seems the delay is the same every time, unless eth0 is connected. Am I the only one that has both wlan(0 for the Edimax, 1 for the Netgear) and eth0 die after a few hours? AS I am trying to get a headless server set up, it is frustrating... Mike -- 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.
