Cooloo
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WiFi Setup

Mon Mar 07, 2016 2:05 am

Hi All,

Is there anyway of connecting to WiFi (headless) using a WiFi dongle?

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Re: WiFi Setup

Mon Mar 07, 2016 2:29 am

Cooloo wrote:Is there anyway of connecting to WiFi (headless) using a WiFi dongle?
It's very much unfun to work on a headless system that also doesn't have the network up and running. You are basically going to take the card out, mount it in a machine you can see, pull it out again and put it back in the headless machine, hope it works, etc. It's a lot easier to just find something to hook the headless machine to if only for a short span. With wifi, you can then run the command line, call it a REPL, for the wpa_supplicant and then you can debug interactively. If this is hard to do, at least try to get a temporary wired connection running.

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