{"id":1832,"date":"2012-07-10T01:37:55","date_gmt":"2012-07-09T20:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/?p=1832"},"modified":"2022-06-16T15:19:19","modified_gmt":"2022-06-16T09:49:19","slug":"wireless-finally-working-on-the-raspberrypi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/wireless-finally-working-on-the-raspberrypi\/","title":{"rendered":"Wireless finally working on the RaspberryPi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;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 <a href='https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/installing-citrix-on-the-raspberrypi-other-pi-related-stuff\/'>here<\/a> and <a href='https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/experience-so-far-with-the-raspberrypi\/'>here<\/a>. Since I didn&#8217;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 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.raspberrypi.org\/archives\/1435\">Debian Wheezy<\/a> on it. <\/p>\n<p>Turns out that the Wheezy doesn&#8217;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:<\/p>\n<pre class='code'>apt-get install wicd wicd-curses<\/pre>\n<p>Then ran wicd-curses to configure the Wifi, That&#8217;s it. Now my Pi is connected to net wirelessly and I have one less cable running across my desk, which is great. <\/p>\n<p>Well this is all for now. Will post more later, its time for me to hit the sack. Have an early day tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Suramya<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18,24,13,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-software","category-knowledgebase","category-linuxunix-related","category-techie-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1832"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5059,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1832\/revisions\/5059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}