From: jubishop <[email protected]> Reply-To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Date: Thursday, July 3, 2014 at 5:31 PM To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Subject: [beagleboard] Banging my head against WiFi
> I have > http://www.amazon.com/Edimax-EW-7811Un-Adapter-Raspberry-Supports/dp/B003MTTJO > Y and I also have http://www.adafruit.com/products/814 and I'd trade a kidney > to get either of the damn things working. Add a short USB cable between the WiFi adapter and the BBB and see if that works better for you. Regards, John > > when i run `lsusb` they both seem to use the same driver: > > root@beaglebone:~# lsusb > > Bus 001 Device 002: ID 7392:7811 Edimax Technology Co., Ltd EW-7811Un 802.11n > Wireless Adapter [Realtek RTL8188CUS] > > > > my logical device is wlan0. my etc/network/interface lines are: > > > > auto wlan0 > > allow-hotplug wlan0 > > iface wlan0 inet dhcp > > wpa-ssid [network name here] > > wpa-psk [password here] > > > > when i fire it up via ifup or boot, ifconfig reports: > > > > wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 80:1f:02:ee:68:ef > > inet addr:10.0.0.33 Bcast:10.0.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 > > inet6 addr: 2601:8:a580:8d2:821f:2ff:feee:68ef/64 Scope:Global > > inet6 addr: fe80::821f:2ff:feee:68ef/64 Scope:Link > > UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 > > RX packets:337 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 > > TX packets:355 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 > > collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 > > RX bytes:41326 (40.3 KiB) TX bytes:42056 (41.0 KiB) > > > > which you'd think would be good! my router hands out 10.0.0.* addresses and > 10.0.0.33 looks good to me. > > > > usually at this point i can get one or two pings in, maybe 3, but that's it. > i also notice after a reboot i usually can't get any pings in to the same url, > but i can get a ping or two to a different url. then i'm totally fucked. > > > > so, i know i'm getting online fine, i can wget the google homepage and view it > successfully, but shortly thereafter i'm done. > > > > i've tried adding a bund of other lines to my interface file, such as > wireless-rate auto, and wireless-channel 1 (or 11...i have two routers one on > channel 1, one on channel 11, but neither works any better. > > > > i tried moving my wpa info to a wpa_supplicant.conf file per other directions, > but same result. pretty sure it's the same thing, just different config > files. > > > > this is a brand new beagle bone black i just got from adafruit yesterday. it > is running debian 7 wheezy. > > > > totally stumped. :( any help would be immensely appreciated. > > > > > > -- > 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/d/optout. -- 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/d/optout.
