My distribution is a bit unusual, in that it is the Botic version of debian
http://bbb.ieero.com/ With the stock Debian I am able to get a DHCP lease. Configuring /etc/network/interfaces identically in the Botic version however fails. lsusb shows the device as: Bus 001 Device 002: ID 2001:3308 D-Link Corp. DWA-121 802.11n Wireless N 150 Pico Adapter [Realtek RTL8188CUS] iwconfig shows: wlan0 IEEE 802.11bgn ESSID:off/any Mode:Managed Access Point: Not-Associated Tx-Power=0 dBm Retry short limit:7 RTS thr=2347 B Fragment thr:off Encryption key:off Power Management:on /etc/network/interfaces (partial): allow-hotplug eth0 iface eth0 inet dhcp auto wlan0 iface wlan0 inet dhcp wpa-ssid "ssid" wpa-psk "passphrase" on boot the interface is not up forcing ifup wlan0 results in failure to get DHCP lease. Variations on this configuration using wpa-supplicant and more verbose configurations for the SSID have also not worked. wicd-curses/wicd has also not worked. This cannot be a hardware issue as the dongle behaves normally on the Debian stock for C and the current Debian 7.8 image for SD. Any suggestions on what to try or what might be misconfigured? Again the error is just: no dhcpoffers received -- 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.
