On Sun, Jan 8, 2017 at 10:43 PM, Oliver Rew <[email protected]> wrote: > You are the man! Thanks so much, that worked great! > > Followups: > > 1. How do I get connman to automatically connect? When I reboot, it says it > is running and wifi is enabled, but the light the USB dongle doesn't come on > and it doesn't connect. In order to get it to connect I have to run > > ifconfig wlan0 down > ifconfig wlan0 up > > Then it lights up and connects in a few seconds. I am not sure if this is a > connman problem or something else interfering with it?
"it should".... wonder if the mac is changing on the interface between reboots?? > 2. Is there a way to stop using connman and just go back to the "interfaces" > file and wpa_supplicant? That way just makes more sense to me and seems more > straight forward. However, I have tried 2 different "ways" of getting rid of > connman and both have issues. I have both "apt-get remove connman", and also > downloaded "rcconf" and disabled connman(read it online), but when I do > both, wlan0 disappears and when I do "iwconfig" the interface name shows up > as "wlx[my MAC address]". Is there a way to remove connman peacefully? Yeah, just define wlan0 in /etc/network/interfaces, then connman will leave it alone... > 3. Sort of a rant: Why in the hell does connman default to AP mode on a > fresh version of debian for BBB?!? It seems ridiculous and a sure way of > making newbies(like me) pull their hair out! Where is the documentation that > says connman must be used to connect wifi? Why does every online > guide(including the official BBB wiki) tell me to do the standard interfaces > file and wpa_supplicant, when this doesn't work out of the box with a new > image of debian made specially available for BBB? Just to be clear, I'm not > blaming you at all, I am just frustrated that this was sitting under my nose > for most a week, even though I spent hours googling and troubleshooting. > Maybe I'm just used to Raspberry Pi making it painfully easy for me, but > goddamit BBB what a f***ing learning curve. [big exhale] I made this change on Apr 29, 2016. Regards, -- Robert Nelson https://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]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beagleboard/CAOCHtYhHasy4UwakeJ6%2BNppvU5G3XPy%2BT64Tcev5wBv-yrY6tQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
