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/ >>> >>> -- >>> 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. > > > -- > 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.
