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Wifi support ?

Open mikerr opened this issue 11 years ago • 6 comments

Anyone already working on setting SSID/psk in raspi-config ?

mikerr avatar Aug 17 '13 13:08 mikerr

I assume it would be possible but Raspbian / Operating systems would require either extra packages as default or an wired connection to setup to download all of the major drivers.

ryanteck avatar Aug 19 '13 07:08 ryanteck

A lot of wifi drivers are available as modules: https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/blob/rpi-3.2.27/arch/arm/configs/bcmrpi_defconfig

I guess once you have a working adaptor it's just a matter of writing out a wpa supplicant config file? http://linux.die.net/man/5/wpa_supplicant.conf

I would have a look at the wifi tool included with the raspbian desktop; you might get some ideas from there.

Good luck!

Cheers, Stonie.

Stonie avatar Aug 19 '13 08:08 Stonie

Downloading drivers is outside the scope of a config tool IMO

Simple setting of SSID/passwords (often before being in range) is enough

  • I have some code that I'll polish up

mikerr avatar Aug 19 '13 08:08 mikerr

I know that I got my wireless dongle (Where ever it is sitting around) working by installing some firmware non free drivers. I assume this could be the case with many of them.

Thanks - * * Ryan Walmsley * * Email: *[email protected] *Skype: Ryanteck Website:* Http://ryanteck.org.uk*

On 19 August 2013 09:53, Mike Redrobe [email protected] wrote:

Downloading drivers is outside the scope of a config tool IMO

Simple setting of SSID/passwords (often before being in range) is enough

  • I have some code that I'll polish up

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHubhttps://github.com/asb/raspi-config/issues/24#issuecomment-22858515 .

ryanteck avatar Aug 19 '13 08:08 ryanteck

Sounds good to me. The standard Raspbian build includes all the wifi firmwares which are packaged for Debian.

On 19 August 2013 09:53, Mike Redrobe [email protected] wrote:

Downloading drivers is outside the scope of a config tool IMO

Simple setting of SSID/passwords (often before being in range) is enough

  • I have some code that I'll polish up

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHubhttps://github.com/asb/raspi-config/issues/24#issuecomment-22858515 .

asb avatar Aug 19 '13 08:08 asb

@ryanteck Looks like you might have been unlucky... what type of adaptor is it? lsusb?

Either way, I think @mikerr is on the right track. ;)

Stonie avatar Aug 19 '13 09:08 Stonie