add wifi to nard

Ronny Nilsson rln-nard at arbetsmyra.dyndns.org
Tue Oct 25 15:05:49 CEST 2016


Congratulations to your fathership!

I hope Beaglebone will work for you. Note though that there is a Raspberry 
equivalent; the Compute Module has eMMC as well.

/Ronny


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> thanks guys for the help.
>
> Sorry for the delay, but my first daughter was born and I was without work
> for a few days.
>
> at the end I will use a BEAGLEBONE with an EMMC disk to resolve the problem
> of corrupt SD
>
> On Fri, Oct 7, 2016 at 12:27 PM, Ronny Nilsson <
>
> rln-nard at arbetsmyra.dyndns.org> wrote:
> > Hello
> > It probably can, with some tweaking. Try something like this:
> >
> > $ echo 'wlan0proto="disabled"' >>/etc/settings/network
> > $ hotplug
> > $ echo 'wlan0_ssid="xxxxx"' >>/etc/settings/network
> > $ echo 'wlan0proto="dynamic"' >>/etc/settings/network
> > $ hotplug
> >
> > The file /etc/settings/network is a runtime copy of the
> > /boot/settings/network
> > it's refreshed every boot.
> >
> > /Ronny
> >
> >
> > ------------------------------------------
> >
> > > thanks James and Ronny I'll try that.
> > >
> > > I need the end user to configure the wifi from an AP in the RPI.
> > > This can be changed in execution?
> > >
> > >
> > > Sebastián
> > >
> > >--------------------------------------------
> > >
> > > rln-nard at arbetsmyra.dyndns.org> wrote:
> > > > Hi Sebastián
> > > > You should enter your SSID and password in the file /settings/network
> >
> > in
> >
> > > > the
> > > > SD-card (mounted as /boot/settings/network). The file is well
> >
> > documented
> >
> > > > and
> > > > easy to follow. In the bottom of the file are:
> > > >         wlan0_ssid=""
> > > >         wlan0_psk=""
> > > > which you should edit. Then reboot the Pi. Hopefully it'll all work.
> > > > Monitor
> > > > the system log (with "logread" for problems.) The standard WiFi
> > > > tools "iwconfig" and "iwlist" are available for trouble shooting as
> >
> > well.
> >
> > > > However, for using Raspberry Pi 3 I recommend the development version
> >
> > of
> >
> > > > Nard,
> > > > which has better Pi 3 support than v1.00.
> > > >
> > > > /Ronny
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > -----------------------------------------
> > > >
> > > > > All the kernel drivers for wifi are loaded in the default kernel.
> > > >
> > > > Assuming
> > > >
> > > > > you're using supported hardware, you just need to configure
> > > >
> > > > wpa_supplicant
> > > >
> > > > > to connect to your access point.
> > > > >
> > > > > I had a lot of difficulty with wpa_supplicant. I took some careful
> > > > > notes about what I did to get it working, but I don't have them in
> > > > > front of me right now. I'll send them your way when I get home from
> > > > > work.
> > > > >
> > > > > - James
> > > > >
> > > > > -----------------------------------------
> > > > >
> > > > > > On Oct 6, 2016, at 9:46 AM, Sebastián Sáez <otrab86 at gmail.com>
> >
> > wrote:
> > > > > > Hi!,
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I'm trying nard. Thanks Ronny by this development.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I have a raspberry pi 3 and I would like to add wifi. Is there
> > > > > > any tutorial-tips to do this?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > regards,
> > > > > > Sebastián
> > > > > >
> > > > > > --
> > > > > > Sebastián




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