Found a solution.... remove connmand and install network-manager. network-manager seemed to "just work" (once you remove the wifi config lines from /etc/network/interfaces). This guide pointed me in the right direction: http://madscientistlabs.blogspot.com/2015/01/wifi-on-beaglebone-black-with-systemd.html
On Monday, December 14, 2015 at 8:06:17 PM UTC-5, [email protected] wrote: > > I have recently acquired a Beagleboard Black for a project and am having > some problems with WiFi rfkill soft blocking. > > Following the the recommendations on the getting started page, I updated > the system to the latest Jessie release, Debian 8.2 2015-11-12. I also > followed the recommendation to update to the latest kernel: 4.1.13-ti-r36 > as of this writing. > > I next attached a WiFi adaptor: Realtek Semiconductor RTL8188CUS 802.11n, > and followed the recommendation to edit the /etc/network/interfaces file to > uncomment the WLAN example and set the SSID and passphrase (using the > output of wpa_passphrase). > > I saw that rfkill has the interface soft blocked; manually unblocking the > interface, I can connect to my WiFi network, however, this does not survive > a reboot, even though the systemd-rfkill service is running, which should > preserve rfkill state across reboots. Further checking the service, I > discovered that by default the rfkill service saves the state, but does not > restore unless a kernel parameter, system.restore_state is set, which I > have done in the uEnv.txt file via: > > cmdline=coherent_pool=1M quiet cape_universal=enable > systemd.restore_state=1 > > Despite this, the WiFi is still blocked upon boot. Any ideas for what > configuration changes are needed to get WiFi enabled (hopefully without a > kludge tower of scripts, this ought to be a single parameter change > somewhere)? > -- 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.
