anadigi
I have the raspberry pi B+ with 1.3alpha. Everything seems fine until I have the wireless dongle installed.
I can only use wireless while i have wire connected. If I unplug the wired network cable, then the wireless will not work!
If I am using the tablet with the MPDroid cannected, the web UIi will not work neither.
cmh714
there are many posts around if you look....for me, I had to down the interface and then use netctl to enable it and make it work to get it into wifi only.
files for netctl are in /etc/netctl/
you need one for wlan0 in there
the general commands are:
ifconfig wlan0 down
netctl enable wlan0
netctl start wlan0
anadigi
Thanks for your help!
Do I have to do it again if I restart the Rune?
cmh714
it should stick once you get it.
anadigi
Thanks again.
I believe there is something difference with raspyfi as I have the raspberry pi version B with raspyfi and the same TP-Link N725 version 1.
I can play with either wireless or wired with no problem.
With this Rune, I cannot use Wifi only. Even I can connect with wifi only, it is dead slow and impossible to use it.
anadigi
Which I don't understand is I have to plugin both wired and wireless to play normal. Wired only is fine though!
cmh714
you need to be plugged in so you can get the wifi working. once working, you can use it unplugged and only on wifi
just takes some effort
ACX
You should need wired ethernet connection only the first time to configure your wlan card. After that, once connected to wi-fi, you should be able to unplug the wire and connect to your device using the wlan IP address.
anadigi
That is why I post this problem. May be something different with Raspberry B+. As I have mentioned before, I have no problem with the Raspyberry Pi Version B with Raspyfi which I still using.
Hope someone will post the New Raspberry B+ experiment.
anadigi
ACX wroteYou should need wired ethernet connection only the first time to configure your wlan card. After that, once connected to wi-fi, you should be able to unplug the wire and connect to your device using the wlan IP address.
What I mean is with wired plugin, the wifi is working with no problem.
cmh714
Ah, so when both are plugged in the wifi works but when the wire gets pulled the wifi stops working too.
So you can try this...
command: netctl list
see if the wlan0 is selected. if not, "netctl enable wlan" I believe is what creates the link for the service and then try a reboot.
If that doesnt work, what has always worked for me in this problem (and it happened with Volumio), I needed an ethernet loopback plug. They are easy to make just google for one.
anadigi
May be just me! I have tryied volumio 1.41. It doesn't work with the Raspberry Pi version B neither.
If I use the Raspyfi Version 1.0; it works perfect.
cmh714
Well you can stay on a project thats no longer supported if youre happy or you could figure it out, thats youre call.
I had troubles with Volumio and wifi as well. And never tried raspfy although I have it.
lowpolyjoe
A little fiddling with the commands listed in this thread and i got my wifi dongle working and streaming media - very cool.
I'm a bit disappointed with the performance of the wifi dongle. It's REALLY tiny and seems to have pretty poor range capabilities. I have a pretty high power Asus wireless router and most of my devices work well throughout my house and in my yard. The dongle on the RPi was sputtering and eventually lost signal when running in the far end of my house this evening.
I would very much like to use this device wirelessly around my house. Can any of you recommend a wifi dongle for the Pi that is known for having good range? Even if it's larger, that's fine. Mine came as part of a kit from Vilros. It has no name on it, just says "802.11 n". The kit description says:
"Wireless Wifi Adapter Realtek 8188CU Same Chip used by the Edimax EW-7811Un"
I heard a rumor (in another forum) that some people have had luck improving their Wifi range by running a usb hub or cable to physically move the dongle a few inches away from the Pi board itself.... i haven't tried this yet but would be interested to hear if anyone else has.
Thanks
Gecko29
I am also having the same issue - using alpha 0.3. If I turn on the pi with the wifi dongle plugged in but no Ethernet cable and I try to go to the correct IP address it does not load. However if I plug in the Ethernet cable I can load the preset IP address for the wifi dongle...any help would be much appreciated!
johnbanks
Re: Problems with the Edimax wireless adapter
It could be the power management of the adapter
I followed a suggestion I found on the RPi forum
http://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=61665&p=479174
It worked for me
cmh714
you can use an ethernet loopback adapter...I had this issue with Volumio but not with Rune...ymmv
