Wifi without x, next try

Hi Folks,
I tried to ask this question one week ago, but there was only trash. So I try again now and ask you for serious answers.

I tried to configure Wifi without x. If I do so it won't work, unless I start an x session. There a can see the right settings and I only need to press connect. Wifi connects and works. Even on a reboot it still works. So I took all setting in /etc/network/interfaces and in etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf in put them in my config. With this settings, wlan0 did not come up un start, I have to start it from the wpa_gui!

What's wrong here, what am I missing?

Thanks for help,
Thomas

When to boot up to the CLI and the wireless is down, then can you get to it and type in "sudo ifconfig"

My ethernet only shows

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root@raspberrypi:/home/pi# ifconfig
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr b8:27:eb:19:d7:61
          inet addr:192.168.0.5  Bcast:192.168.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:85655 errors:0 dropped:256 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:2374 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:5515386 (5.2 MiB)  TX bytes:219875 (214.7 KiB)

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

root@raspberrypi:/home/pi#


What is shown on yours ?

Also does the wifi device show up in "lsusb" ?

......maybe try WICD http://wicd.sourceforge.net it is in the repository

I too had loads of problems getting wifi working. In the end I just went through the following (if the page asks for a password just click on Cancel):

http://blog.xrmx.co.uk/2012/07/setting- ... on-wheezy/

My problem is, that I don't like to use additional SW to get it working.

After setting Wifi up from my scripts, /etc/network/interfases look like this;

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nano /etc/network/interfaces

# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
# and how to activate them.
#
# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
#
# The WLAN network interface
allow-hotplug wlan0
iface wlan0 inet manual
wpa-roam /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
iface default inet dhcp
#
# The LAN network interface
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp

That's the same for Wifi if I use wpa_gui as far as I know.

An the /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf looks like this:

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ctrl_interface=DIR=/var/run/wpa_supplicant GROUP=netdev
update_config=1
network={
        ssid="BlabberBlub06"
        psk="xxxxx"
        proto=RSN
        key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
        pairwise=TKIP
        group=TKIP WEP104 WEP40
        auth_alg=OPEN
}

That's also the same for Wifi if I use wpa_gui as far as I know.

If I don't use the wpa_gui ifconfig shown this after a boot:

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eth0 Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr b8:27:eb:7d:0f:d0
          inet addr:192.168.2.75  Bcast:192.168.2.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:179 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:148 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:18599 (18.1 KiB)  TX bytes:23355 (22.8 KiB)

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:2 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:2 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:100 (100.0 B)  TX bytes:100 (100.0 B)

wlan0  Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 80:1f:02:76:50:f6
          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1

          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

No IP address assigned for wlan0.

After connection manually with wpa_gui Ifconfig gives this:

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eth0    Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr b8:27:eb:7d:0f:d0
          inet addr:192.168.2.75  Bcast:192.168.2.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:1183 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:269 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:87751 (85.6 KiB)  TX bytes:45668 (44.5 KiB)

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:4 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:4 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:200 (200.0 B)  TX bytes:200 (200.0 B)

wlan0  Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 80:1f:02:76:50:f6
          inet addr:192.168.2.13  Bcast:192.168.2.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:342 errors:0 dropped:367 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:28 errors:0 dropped:1 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:86994 (84.9 KiB)  TX bytes:6053 (5.9 KiB)

As you see it's connected and I get an IP. I only don't like to swich to the wpa_gui. how can I activate wlan0 without wpa_gui?

I actually believe it may be feasible to run wpa_supplicant from command line, bottom of this page:

http://hostap.epitest.fi/gitweb/gitweb. ... ant/README