Pi B+ not starting WLAN0

[AdeV73]

Hi,

I've just set up a shiny new Pi B+ as a web kiosk, using kweb3. Following the various instructions around the place, I finally added the line "xinit /home/pi/kiosk" to rc.local to boot the Pi into the web browser when it powers up. This all works brilliantly.

Until now, I've been connecting to the Pi (via SSH) using a wireless LAN adapter. This has also worked fine, until I added that line to rc.local; now, the Pi boots OK, goes to the kiosk, but it doesn't connect to the network. If I plug a LAN cable in, it's all great. From an SSH console, I see that wlan0 is there but hasn't got an IP address. I can do sudo ifdown wlan0 then sudo ifup wlan0, and after about 2 seconds, wlan0 gets an IP address & I can, once again, access the network.

Any ideas what I'm doing wrong? Do I need to stick a delay in the boot script to give wlan0 time to come up, before it fires up the X server?

My kiosk file is as follows:

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#!/bin/sh
xset -dpms
xset s off
xset s noblank
unclutter &
matchbox-window-manager &
kweb3 -JEKHCA+-zbhrqfpoklgtjneduwxy http://my.url/here

rc.local is now:

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#!/bin/sh -e
#
# rc.local
#
# This script is executed at the end of each multiuser runlevel.
# Make sure that the script will "exit 0" on success or any other
# value on error.
#
# In order to enable or disable this script just change the execution
# bits.
#
# By default this script does nothing.

# Print the IP address
_IP=$(hostname -I) || true
if [ "$_IP" ]; then
  printf "My IP address is %s\n" "$_IP"
fi

sudo xinit ./home/pi/kiosk &

exit 0

The WLAN adapter is some generic thing from Farnell, bought at the same time I bought the Pi.

Cheers!
Ade.

[DougieLawson]

What's in /etc/network/interfaces?

[AdeV73]

Hi,

/etc/networking/interfaces:

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auto lo

iface lo inet loopback
iface eth0 inet dhcp

allow-hotplug wlan0
iface wlan0 inet manual
wpa-roam /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
iface default inet dhcp

/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf:

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ctrl_interface=DIR=/var/run/wpa_supplicant GROUP=netdev
update_config=1

network={
        ssid="Our SSID"
        psk="our password"
        proto=RSN
        key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
        pairwise=TKIP
        auth_alg=OPEN
}

Cheers!
Ade.

[Bananaguns]

Try adding

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auto wlan0

To the top of /etc/network/interfaces. Im pretty sure thats what worked for me.

[AdeV73]

Thanks - I'll give that a go on Monday when I'm back in the office.

Cheers,
Ade.

[AdeV73]

Adding auto wlan0 didn't fix it; so I cheated and added the following to rc.local, before the xinit line:

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sudo ifdown wlan0
sudo ifup wlan0

sleep 20

Job done