Wifi config

[Antonyvw]

Hi folk. Ive been trying to set up my pi to use wifi. Following a tutorial by the-raspberry-pi-guy on robots, he talks about a utility called 'wifi config' to enable setting up the wifi. My problem is I can't find this utility. Can someone please point me in the right direction as to where it is and how to access it please? (Assuming of course that I have it installed).

Thanks
Antony

[fruitoftheloom]

Hi folk. Ive been trying to set up my pi to use wifi. Following a tutorial by the-raspberry-pi-guy on robots, he talks about a utility called 'wifi config' to enable setting up the wifi. My problem is I can't find this utility. Can someone please point me in the right direction as to where it is and how to access it please? (Assuming of course that I have it installed).

Thanks
Antony

https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/anothe ... ace-update

[Antonyvw]

Thank you that helped. I now have the wifi working but a new issue has arisen.
Im trying to use putty to connect to the pi from my windows pc. According to the pi my ip is given as 192.168.1.85/24 so Im assuming that the port that I need open is 24. However when I put this info into putty it times out. Ive also tried changing the keepalive from 0 to 120 but it still times out. anyone any ideas as to why? I have gone into my router and made sure that port 22 and 24 are both open to the pi.

Much appreciated. Thanks
Antony

[B.Goode]

According to the pi my ip is given as 192.168.1.85/24 so Im assuming that the port that I need open is 24.

Wrong.

That number has nothing to do with the port on which sshd is listening, which is 22 by default. Just let putty sort out the ssh connection for itself - no change needed.

[Antonyvw]

Thanks.
Ive reverted it back to port 22 but still getting the same problem.

[B.Goode]

Thanks.
Ive reverted it back to port 22 but still getting the same problem.

Does your Windows PC also have an IP address in the 192.168.1.something range? (If so, no routing is involved in communication between the 2 devices.)

Can you ping the RPi (192.168.1.85) from the WinPC?

[Antonyvw]

the windows pc is in the same range of 192.168.1 (in this case 192.168.1.65). I tried pinging the pi but it times out. Having tried that I tried accessing the internet from the pi and it fails. so for some reason its not making a connection. It does connect when using ethernet cable so its obviously something I have not done in setting up the wifi. Unfortunately I dont know enough about it to figure out what Ive missed.

[Antonyvw]

Finally solved it. I ended up following what someone else did - which was to reinstall the os. Works as it should now. So than ks to those who have helped. Much appreciated.

Antony