I finally managed to get wireless working on the RaspberryPi (Go Me!). The main problem was that when I connected the USB dongle directly to the Pi it wasn’t getting enough power, then when I connected it via a powered USB hub I kept getting error messages. If you like you can read about me previous attempts to get the wireless working here and here. Since I didn’t feel like spending more time on this (and because I thought that the problem was caused because of a problem with the USB hub) I stopped fiddling with it. Then I had to switch the SD card I was using in the Pi (the old one was the card from my camera so I replaced it with another 2GB card) so I downloaded and installed Debian Wheezy on it.
Turns out that the Wheezy doesn’t have the same problems with the USB hub as Squeeze did, so all I had to do was plug in the stuff, install the firmware and I was ready to go. To configure the wireless network I installed wicd as I have found that to be the easiest way to work with wireless networks, I also installed the wicd-curses interface so that I could configure the system from the commandline. The commands I used were as follows:
apt-get install wicd wicd-curses
Then ran wicd-curses to configure the Wifi, That’s it. Now my Pi is connected to net wirelessly and I have one less cable running across my desk, which is great.
Well this is all for now. Will post more later, its time for me to hit the sack. Have an early day tomorrow.
– Suramya
Really useful, thanks Suramya.
Comment by Thomas Hague — October 8, 2012 @ 3:28 AM
I installed the latest Raspbian “wheezy†OS and followed your instructions from a previous post to install the firmware (I have the same wireless USB dongle). Then ran the wireless configuration tool from the desktop, scanned for networks, selected mine and put in my password and connected. Rock & Roll.
Comment by Thomas Hague — October 8, 2012 @ 3:33 AM