User:Ian.roberts

Starting out
I got a B board, bought it with a 4 Gb card, Logitech mk260 wireless keyboard / mouse and D-Link powered 7 port USB hub. I also got a ASUS USB N-13 wifi dongle.

Initial set up went OK, in so much as I dd copied the debian6-19-04-2012 image to the SD card from my main machine, plugged it all in and powered on. Sure enough, the Pi sprang in to life and all looked good. This was without the WIFI dongle, but with ethernet connected.

So, I wanted this to be wireless.

This has proved tricky. Will post more soon as I've got it working.

Wifi Woes
First (second & third) attempts at firing up wifi failed miserably. I managed to get driver and kernel out of sync and received upteen errors telling me about umatched module version. On the second occassion I did get wlan0 up - using the original 19-04-2012 image, but it rendered the pi unusable owing to general bugginess & nasty conflicts with wireless USB keyboard.

Nevertheless I tracked down wonderous wealth of help in the shape of: http://www.ctrl-alt-del.cc/2012/05/raspberry-pi-meets-edimax-ew-7811un-wireless-ada.html and http://dl.dropbox.com/u/80256631/install-rtl8188cus.txt so this time its all going to be different.

Now its ten past midnight ... and success. I struggled a long time with wpa_supplicant.conf for WPA2 ... turns out I'd got the wrong proto. Needed to add TKIP and then I was able to connect.

ian@raspberrypi:~$ sudo ifup wlan0 ioctl[SIOCSIWAP]: Operation not permitted ioctl[SIOCSIWESSID]: Operation not permitted Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client 4.1.1-P1 Copyright 2004-2010 Internet Systems Consortium. All rights reserved. For info, please visit https://www.isc.org/software/dhcp/

Listening on LPF/wlan0/54:04:xx:df:xx:xx Sending on  LPF/wlan0/54:04:xx:df:xx:xx Sending on  Socket/fallback DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 4 DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 6 DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 7 DHCPOFFER from 192.168.1.254 DHCPREQUEST on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 DHCPACK from 192.168.1.254 bound to 192.168.1.90 -- renewal in 42468 seconds.

Going to carry on this discussion here (ian1roberts.blogspot.co.uk) where I've got a bit more page control.