Rasberry Pi Wireless Adapter

[rasberrypip]

I have purchased the Pi Hut Wireless Adapter but am unable to get it working.

I have the B board with 512 MB and a 16GB SDHC card preloaded with Rasbian "Wheezy"

I also have a D-Link 4 Port powered hub. The PS2 mouse and keyboard connected to the hub through a PS2/USB adapter. The CDrom drive also connect to the hub.

I have read several posts indicating problems with power and I am not sure whether the wireless adapter should connect to the Pi USB port or a hub port.

I have tried loading the drivers that came with the wireless adapter but my limited knowledge means I am groping in the dark. I would greatly appreciate any assistance with setting this up.

Regards

[DBryant]

Wireless adapters seem to be hungry devices so attaching to the hub might prove to be better. I purchased an adapter that stated it would run plugged directly into the Pi, but not a bit of it. And now its configured and fully functional in the hub it still won't function in the Pi itself.

Do you have a wired connection at all? And if so, does your system work with all these peripherals connected? Remove non-essential devices i.e the CD drive and see if things change. I'd guess not, but a marginal PS may be coaxed to cooperate.

When you plug the adapter in, what does the command lsusb report? Has the USB sub-system detected its presence? If you tail -f /var/log/messages while plugging in the adapter, do you see messages? And are these reporting any error?

If the USB sub-system 'sees' the adapter, then this should trigger the loading of the relevent kernel modules, lsmod will list the modules loaded into the kernel. Do you see a likely named module?

Execute ifconfig -a to list all know interfaces, can you recognised anything? If connected via wire, and if so you should see eth0, its status (UP/DOWN) and the assigned IP address.

Is there a wireless device? Is its status DOWN?

What are the contents of your network files? Have you tried to add wireless capability at all, and failed, or just not done anything?

[jbntx]

I had a variety of issues getting mine up and running as well. I wrote down how I got mine working well on my site, here's the url: http://onlineextremist.com/blog/2013/07 ... pberry-pi/. I hope it helps you.

jb