Can't connect to Wi-Fi

Whenever I boot the Pi with my Belkin F7D1102 SURF N150 USB Wireless Micro Adapter (it or enter the command "sudo ifup wlan0" I get the following error message in the log:

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/etc/network/interfaces:7: unknown method
ifup: couldn't read interfaces file "etc/network/interfaces"

Here is the contents of /etc/network/interfaces:

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auto lo

iface lo inet loopback
iface eth0 inet dchp

auto wlan0
iface wlan0 inet dchp
wpa-conf /etc/wpa.conf

/etc/wpa.conf contains (with my SSID and passcode removed):

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network={
   ssid="insert ssid here"
   key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
   psk="insert code here its wpa2 btw"
}

I'm not sure what's going on here. I followed the instructions in the User Guide, so I'm not sure what's the problem. Can anyone help?

Hi, check out this tutorial.

http://omer.me/2012/04/setting-up-wireless-networks-under-debian-on-raspberry-pi/
Perhaps your firmware for your adapter is not installed.


Regards,

Phil

Hi, check out this tutorial.

http://omer.me/2012/04/setting-up-wireless-networks-under-debian-on-raspberry-pi/
Perhaps your firmware for your adapter is not installed.


Regards,

Phil

I thought it was installed because the Pi said it was made by Realtek (I think, my memory's a bit dodgy sometimes) and apparently it already had the firmware according to the user manual and the fact that it said I had the latest version of their firmware. That tutorial does appear to give different instructions from the instructions in the manual. I wish I knew which were the right ones. I'll look through there.
[EDIT] It appears that the only difference in it is in the bit where you work out what firmware to get. That's cool. Quick question though, does the latest version of Raspbian have WPASupplicant pre-installed and, if not, where do I get it from the desktop? I don't really have any way of connecting my Pi to the Internet other than Wi-Fi.

What you show as /etc/wpa.conf should instead be added to /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf. That file is (and should only be) readable by root, so to edit it use something like:

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sudo nano /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf

What you show as /etc/wpa.conf should instead be added to /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf. That file is (and should only be) readable by root, so to edit it use something like:

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sudo nano /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf

So basically, I put the contents of /etc/wpa.conf into /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf instead and change the referral in /etc/network/interfaces to the new directory.
Let's hope this works.
[EDIT] So it didn't work. All I did was add the contents of wpa.conf to the bottom of wpa_supplicant.conf and change the last line of the interfaces file to "wpa-conf /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf", but I feel there is more to change. What is this "more"?

So I was experimenting with the interfaces file and suddenly I'm able to configure the Wi-Fi in wpa_gui. When I try to connect, I get this in the event history (I tried a few times before this in the same session):

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CTRL-EVENT-BSS-ADDED 8 [MAC]
CTRL-EVENT-BSS-ADDED 9 [different MAC]
CTRL-EVENT-SCAN-RESULTS
Trying to associate with [router info]
Association request to the driver failed
Associated with [MAC]
WPA: key negotiation completed with [router info]
CTRL-EVENT-CONNECTED - Connection to [MAC] completed (reauth) [id=0 id_str=]
[a few minutes later]
CTRL-EVENT-BSS-REMOVED 8 [MAC]
CTRL-EVENT-BSS-REMOVED 9 [MAC]

I think it's saying that it's connected, but it's not acting like it. The ping command doesn't work and Midori brings up a "cannot resolve hostname" screen on Google. Anyone know what's going on?

I don't know if this method will work for you but I have posted a thread as a case study that connects using a USB wireless dongle.

http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=26&t=28339

Hi,
Don't know if this has been resolved but here's my two-pennuth.
If you are using "wheezy" distro, then the only thing I needed was to add the network entries ( i.e. SSID, KEY-MGMT, PSK ) to the wpa_supplicant.conf file. Don't touch wpa.conf.
This got mine working after fumbling around unsuccessfully with the user guide book instructions!
Good luck,
Martin

It's been resolved for a while, but the problem was the line about wpa_supplicant.conf didn't have two spaces in front and it needed those. :p