Concise Wi-Fi guide

[IvanX]

I put a page on my Raspberry Pi site up to try to concisely present what methods I've found successful for getting up and running with Wi-Fi on Raspbian, even on headless Pi's. While this info is certainly out there, I thought it would be useful to have it in one place, as well as provide a guide for using wpa_cli on the command line, rather than needing to edit files manually.

I'm posting it here in case it's might be of any help to anyone: http://ivanx.com/raspberrypi

Cheers,
Ivan.

[SirLagz]

Great idea, but the color scheme played havok with my eyes.
Maybe it's just me though.

[Heater]

Thank you for that.

Yes, please fix the colours. Regular black on white text would do fine perhaps with a little Raspi Logo at the top.

[IvanX]

By popular demand, I have made the colors slightly more sober on my WiFi Guide and other Raspberry Pi pages. But I still wanted to keep them raspberry-colored. So you're gonna have to deal with it. (If your eyes are still bleeding, may I suggest select-all-copy-paste into a text editor.)

Hope you find the guide useful. I just updated it with a bit more info about Ralink adapters.

[SirLagz]

The 'not so pink' pink is better now

[DaveDriesen]

Colors are still making my eyes bleed

Please add a Table of Content with some on-page links to the sections involved.. Your page has a lot of useful information and this will allow visitors to skip to the section they need.

You can also just post the information here.

Dave Driesen
Linux dev and oldskool elite

[Heater]

The colour still makes my eye bleed.
Also where is the information?
The hard part is getting your WIFI link to come up automatically on boot up and reliably staty connected.
I guess the GUI app does that, I have never tried as I rarely have a screen attached to my Pi's, no HDMI devices in this house.

[timmoore46]

Colour needs to be vanilla for me ! *LOL*

Keeping Jargon to a minimum I like my take on getting WiFi to work:-

Total easy fix here !

As Dongles cost less than a fiver, changing to dongle that works out of box makes sense !

http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewt ... 24#p314524

also

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... OU:GB:3160

(the easy fix is even linked into the listing.)



Tim

[klricks]

You might mention that WPS (push button configuration) is available in the WIFI Config GUI.

[Heater]

What I meant was, if you you don't have your GUI available how to you set up your WIFI? What files to tweak and how?

[IvanX]

What I meant was, if you you don't have your GUI available how to you set up your WIFI? What files to tweak and how?

This is what I tried to explain on my page. If you don't have your GUI available, you can either remotely display it on another computer, which I explain how to do, or you can use the wpa_cli command, which is the command line version of the GUI Wi-Fi application. The sequence of commands for using wpa_cli is also laid out on my web page. Like the GUI application, it automatically edits the files you need.

If you want to roll everything by hand, you can either edit /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf, or /etc/network/interfaces (if you alter the latter, then the GUI tool and wpa_cli won't work any more). There's plenty of info on how to edit those files in other places, and I felt it was more elegant to use the tools that automatically edit the files for you, so I didn't detail how to do that on my page.

Judging from the above reactions, it seems like the page I put up isn't all that clear for some reason, so perhaps I'll edit the content and convert it into a post here. Still, what's not clear?

[Heater]

Ah, I see, so those commands actually change the wifi config files so that wifi comes up on next reboot without having to do anything. I got the impression they were only temporary actions like ifconfig.

[IvanX]

Ah, I see, so those commands actually change the wifi config files so that wifi comes up on next reboot without having to do anything. I got the impression they were only temporary actions like ifconfig.

Yes, correct. Thanks; I'll clarify that.

[IvanX]

Ok, I redid the Wi-Fi info page to hopefully make it more readable and understandable. Let me know if you have any comments.

[Heater]

On my Chrome browser at 100% zoom it is almost totally unreadable.
I don't know if it's the font, or font size of if it's just screwing with my vision.

Content wise it looks good.