
1. Ifthebluelightontheadaptercomeson,buttheadapterdoesnotacquireanIPaddress,
theproblemisin
wpa_supplicant.conf.ifconfigwillshowtheadapter,butnotanIP
address.
2. Ifthebluelightdoesnotcomeon,theproblemisintheearlierstages.
3. Usethecommandlineutility
dmesgreviewkernelmessages.Itishelpfultosavetheoutput
tofilesothatitcanbeeditedandexa minedatleisure(use
dmesg >dmesg.logandthen
editdmesg.log).
4. Despitethefactthatrtl8192cu.kohasbeenblocked,
dmesgstillgivesthefollowingmessage:
usbcore: registered new interface driver rtl8192cu.Thisdoesnotindicate
anerror.
5.
dmesgdoesnotrecorderrormessagesrelatingtoerrorsinwpa_supplicant.conf.The
onlywaytoseetheseistobootwithadirectlyattacheddisplayandwatchthemessages
goingby.TheseareerrorssuchasafailuretoputquotesroundtheSSID.
Stability
TomaszMilasinhisveryhelpfulpostingRaspberryPimeetsEdimax
recommendsalargenumberof
fixestoimprovethestabilityoftheDebiansystem.ThesearenotrequiredtomaketheEdimax
adapterwork,butmaysolveotherproblems.
Theonlyproblemsdiscoveredsofarusing thestandardDebianimageandtheaboveconfiguration
changesarethatthewirelessconnection
doesnotre‐establishitselfafterthewirelessrouteris
rebooted,and/etc/init.d/networking restartbringsdownthenetworkbutdoesnotre‐
establishit,eitherforEthernetorwireless(possiblythesameproblem).
Removingthewifiadapterandreinsertingitdoesnotrestartthenetworkeither.
Additionalpoints
1. TheaboveconfigurationfileisforWPA2‐PSKandDHCP.WPA‐PSKandstaticIP
addresses
havenotbeentested.
2. Theaboveprocessiscumbersomeifyouwanttousedifferentwirelessaccesspoints,soyou
maywanttoconsideroneofthefollowing(nottested).
a. wicd
isanopensourcewiredandwirelessnetworkmanagerthatdoesnotrequire
graphicaldependencies.TheFarnellsitealsomentionswicd-curses,whichmayor
maynotbethesamething.
b. NetworkManager
isanetworkmanagerthatdoesusagraphicalinterface.
3. YoumaywanttoconfigureyourwirelessroutertogiveafixedIPaddresstotheRaspberryPi
Ethernetandwirelessconnections.
4. Youcanusethecommand
lsusbtoidentifythechip setusedbyyourwirelessadapter.
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