garycooke
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Leaflet that comes with the pi

Wed Feb 12, 2014 10:49 am

Hi i bought a raspberry pi recently and the girlfriend kindly spilt coffee on the set up colour leaflet that came with it, therefor sticking the pages together, can anyone help by sending/posting me a copy please. I was only at the stage where it tells you to connect to a wifi, so if anyone could help with that i would be very greatfull

Gary

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Re: Leaflet that comes with the pi

Wed Feb 12, 2014 11:35 am


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Re: Leaflet that comes with the pi

Wed Feb 12, 2014 1:39 pm

joan wrote:Was it similar to http://www.raspberrypi.org/quick-start-guide?
It was a colour guide about 2 pages explaining first of all how to switch on ect then how to use the wifi, it was that bit i needed but the pages had stuck together, i think it went to a windows type page where i entered a wifi code

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Re: Leaflet that comes with the pi

Wed Feb 12, 2014 2:00 pm

Perhaps the vendor you bought from has the guide on-line.

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Re: Leaflet that comes with the pi

Wed Feb 12, 2014 10:03 pm

Basically i am trying to connect to my BT Hub so i can use wifi, i click on the wifi config icon and click scan, the pi finds my home hub so i click on that, then it takes me to a page where it says
SSID (Myhub name is in here)

AND THIS IS WHERE I GET LOST
It says Authentication - Here it says WPA2-Personal (PSK) *I dont know if this is correct
next it says Encryption = TKIP * Again i dont know if this is correct
next it says PSK * I have no idea what to put in here or what PSK stands for

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Re: Leaflet that comes with the pi

Wed Feb 12, 2014 10:30 pm

Pre-Shared Key (PSK) - the password. It's the password used by the BT Hub to authenticate users. You'd need to look at your BT Hub documentation to find out how to find out what password is being used.

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Re: Leaflet that comes with the pi

Wed Feb 12, 2014 11:24 pm

BT now pre-sets the key for WiFi and supplies a "keep this in the drawer" card with that password.

It's probably possible to change the key by a bit of Reading The Fine Manuals at: http://bt.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/10477 there may even be a way to reset it if the password is lost.

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Re: Leaflet that comes with the pi

Thu Feb 13, 2014 7:56 am

Thank you for your time on this, i will give this a try tonight hopefully i may be able to get on line, i do appreciate all your help

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