Thanks for the feedback - all good advice!
On Thursday, July 3, 2014 8:31:02 PM UTC-4, jubishop wrote: > > I have > http://www.amazon.com/Edimax-EW-7811Un-Adapter-Raspberry-Supports/dp/B003MTTJOY > > and I also have http://www.adafruit.com/products/814 and I'd trade a > kidney to get either of the damn things working. > > 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.
