Trouble connecting over wifi

[craigcannon]

Hey.

I've read a bunch of threads re: wifi on the r pi but still can't seem to connect to mine. I can SSH in when it's connected via ethernet and detect the wifi dongle using

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lsusb

and

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ifconfig

, but when I unplug the ethernet and attempt:

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ssh pi@192.168.0.118

I get

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ssh: connect to host 192.168.0.118 port 22: Operation timed out

.

My configuration is identical to this tutorial's: http://www.howtogeek.com/167425/how-to- ... mand-line/.

Any ideas?

[klricks]

Maybe your router is assigning a different IP address?
Look in the client list on the router to see what the IP is after you swap from wired to WIFI.

I use IP to MAC address reservations on my router so that the RPi always gets the same IP.
Note that your would have to do 1 setup for wired and 1 for WIFI as they have different MAC addresses.

For the encryption setting... If your router is set to AES the the RPi must be set to CCMP not TKIP.

Have you tried the WIFI config utility GUI (Raspbian)?

[Davespice]

Ah. You may have fallen fowl of the ifplugd daemon. This is a little process in memory which is designed to give that laptop like behaviour where you always default to the Ethernet connection. What it does is drop the wifi when you have the Ethernet plugged in.

So if you just remove it, you'll probably find you'll see an IP address for both eth0 and wlan0 in ifconfig. They will be different.

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sudo apt-get remove ifplugd

[craigcannon]

Thanks guys.

@klricks, I thought that might be the issue but didn't find it on the client list. My network security is set to Mixed WEP, might that be the problem?

@davespice I gave that a go and was no longer able to SSH in at all. haha. After that fail I tried a clean install and gave the GUI a go on a friend's monitor. I got as far as finding the adapter and the network, but it wouldn't assign an IP and just gave me the message "wps-ap-available". After fiddling with a few more settings, the adapter is no longer being found.

This setup seems much buggier than the tutorials indicate. Oy!

[Phill Rymer]

use connection wizard scan for network right click your wifi on scan results enter passkey ive never had any major problems doing it that way may be woth doing update and upgrade as well