From:  William Hermans <[email protected]>
Reply-To:  "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Date:  Tuesday, July 8, 2014 at 11:36 AM
To:  "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject:  Re: [beagleboard] Re: Banging my head against WiFi

> http://www.wikihow.com/Ask-a-Question-Intelligently

Also try this one:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/linux/answers/LinuxQuestions_org/How_To_Ask_a_
Question

Regards,
John
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 11:20 AM, John Syn <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> From:  <[email protected]>
>> Reply-To:  "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
>> Date:  Tuesday, July 8, 2014 at 9:42 AM
>> To:  "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
>> Subject:  Re: [beagleboard] Re: Banging my head against WiFi
>> 
>>> "useless complaints"?  Was that really called for?  I was trying to show
>>> empathy to what seemed to be a frustrated user.
>>> 
>>> For a first-time poster to these forums, I hope this is not representative
>>> of the level of civility one can expect.
>> Oh, don¹t take everything so seriously. Robert has more patience than anyone
>> I know and he has a lot of work on his plate so you need to provide details
>> of your equipment, distro, kernel version, board version, what you have
>> tried, the output of your console log, etc. It doesn¹t help to say nothing
>> works. The more details you provide, the quicker someone can respond with a
>> solution. 
>> 
>> Regards,
>> John
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Tuesday, July 8, 2014 11:13:19 AM UTC-4, RobertCNelson wrote:
>>>> On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 9:37 AM, PaulM <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>> > I too am in the same situation.  I have spent countless hours trying to
>>>>> > configure WiFi on, not one, but two BBB - a rev B and a rev C.  I have
>>>>> also 
>>>>> > tried 3 different Linux distros - Ubuntu, Angstrom, and Debian; 3
>>>>> different 
>>>>> > WiFi adapters (same chipset, but different manufactureres - all to no
>>>>> avail. 
>>>>> > 
>>>>> > As a reference point, I was able to get WiFi running on 2 Raspberry Pis
>>>>> in 
>>>>> > less than 10 minutes from boot up.
>>>> 
>>>> I always enjoy useless complaints..
>>>> 
>>>> chipset? 
>>>> It's one of those small fit in usb wifi devices, it'll have issues
>>>> with the board's ground plane. So get a small 3 inch usb extension
>>>> cable. 
>>>> 
>>>> kernel version? uname -r
>>>> 
>>>> Did you even try the latest kernel?
>>>> 
>>>> cd /opt/scripts/tools/
>>>> git pull 
>>>> sudo ./update_kernel.sh
>>>> 
>>>> Regards, 
>>>> 
>>>> -- 
>>>> Robert Nelson 
>>>> http://www.rcn-ee.com/
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