Ok. I seemed to have figured out how to get it working. I entered ifdown wlan0 then ifup wlan0
It is now connected to wifi. I restarted it and it booted back up with the wifi working. Although very slow connection going through ssh. Not sure if that will persist, but at least it's working. On Wednesday, December 24, 2014 10:25:44 AM UTC-5, chrispy141 wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > > I'm fairly new to Beaglebone as well as Linux (been messing with them > about 6 months). I managed to get my Beaglebone Black connected to wifi, > but only when the lcd4 cape is installed. When it's booted without the > cape, it doesn't appear to pick up the router. The wifi dongle is powered > (indicated by light when on), but 'ip address' command gives me this: > > > 3: wlan0: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq state > DOWN qlen 1000 > > link/ether 80:1f:02:f5:2e:23 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff > > > like I said. If I were to shut it down, install the lcd4 cape, and boot > up, it connects just fine. > > > Any ideas? > > > I'm using BBB revision C > > > Distribution info: > > Linux beaglebone 3.8.13-bone50 #1 SMP Tue May 13 13:24:52 UTC 2014 armv7l > GNU/Linux > > > as for the wifi device: > > > Bus 001 Device 002: ID 7392:7811 Edimax Technology Co., Ltd EW-7811Un > 802.11n Wireless Adapter [Realtek RTL8188CUS] > > > I'd appreciate any help, thanks. > > > Chris > -- 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.
