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Hello all,

I got my Pi, and all the bits I need. I managed to get it running on my TV (albeit at 1080i, I haven't figured out how to get to run at 720p yet), but I can't get it online.

Please forgive what might be a stupidly easy question to answer:
How do I get it to recognise my Netgear WNA1100 wifi dongle?

I found this page which lists the ath9k_htc driver (I think it's the right one), but I have no idea how to apply it to the Pi's Raspbian OS.

Any advice gratefully received.

Regards

Dave

The latest build of Raspbian Wheezy has a WIFI Config program on the desktop which you
can use to get your Netgear WIFI dongle going. I got a Netgear WG111 v3 dongle to successfully work without having to mess with any additional files, no editing.It just flat out works. The wireless dongle works as wlan0. You will need to run the WPA Gui on the desktop to access settings. It will show your adapter. You set the network you're on, put your SSID settings and password in, allow it to scan and find it and you're up and running. I have the dongle running on a separate powered USB hub. I apply power to the pi first, then the hub,and reverse this order on shutdown; hub first, then pi.

Thank you for the reply.

I had tried most of what you mentioned although, having read the raspberry pi users manual today, it never occurred to me that the wifi dongle could be pulling too much juice plugged directly into the Pi.

I've ordered a powered hub - hopefully that will fix it.

Best regards

Dave

check your voltage between the TP1 TP2, my polyfuse is blown and with my wireless adapter plugged in its enough to bring it below 4.75v.


I would imagine streaming 1080p would be possible, its on my plan to give it a shot, theoretically, iperf has shown I am getting enough performance out of the wireless adapter.

I was able to play 1080p on Xbian 6.3 but havnt tried with any others

I configured my first wireless connection via wpa_gui w/X11 over ssh (ssh -X pi@pi)until I got a hang of the configuration files.