Miniature WiFi (802.11b/g/n) Module: For Raspberry Pi and mo

[sdives2]

Hi, I recently bought the following:

1 x Raspberry Pi 2 - Model B - ARMv7 with 1G RAM[ID:2358]
1 x Miniature WiFi (802.11b/g/n) Module: For Raspberry Pi and more[ID:814]
1 x Raspberry Pi B+ / Pi 2 Frosted White Enclosure[ID:1997]

& The miniature WiFi module is not working. It see's Wireless Networks, but when we put in the password, it does not connect with any network. We have tried multiple networks & multiple Raspberry Pi's with the same result.

Thanks.

[adafruit_support_mike]

What do you have in /etc/network/interfaces?

[sdives2]

root@raspberrypi:/etc/network# pwd
/etc/network
root@raspberrypi:/etc/network# cat interfaces
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

auto eth0
allow-hotplug eth0
iface eth0 inet manual

auto wlan0
allow-hotplug wlan0
iface wlan0 inet manual
wpa-conf /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf

auto wlan1
allow-hotplug wlan1
iface wlan1 inet manual
wpa-conf /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf

[sdives2]

root@raspberrypi:/etc/network# pwd
/etc/network
root@raspberrypi:/etc/network# cat interfaces
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

auto eth0
allow-hotplug eth0
iface eth0 inet manual

auto wlan0
allow-hotplug wlan0
iface wlan0 inet manual
wpa-conf /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf

auto wlan1
allow-hotplug wlan1
iface wlan1 inet manual
wpa-conf /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf

I also tried the tutorial here> https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentati ... ess-cli.md & it didn't work.

[adafruit_support_mike]

Those options will set the IP address manually, with the details in /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf

What do you have in that file?

[sdives2]

cat /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
ictrl_interface=DIR=/var/run/wpa_supplicant GROUP=netdev
update_config=1

network={
ssid="homepna5G"
psk="the password here"
key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
}

network={
ssid="cantwks"
psk="the password here"
key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
}

[adafruit_support_mike]

Looks like you have a mismatch in the settings.

The 'manual' keyword means you'll set the device's IP address yourself. Try changing that to 'dhcp', which will pull an address from the WAP.

[sdives2]

Not working after a re-boot.

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root@raspberrypi:/etc/network# cat interfaces
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

auto eth0
allow-hotplug eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp

auto wlan0
allow-hotplug wlan0
iface wlan0 inet dhcp
wpa-conf /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf

auto wlan1
allow-hotplug wlan1
iface wlan1 inet dhcp
wpa-conf /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf

root@raspberrypi:/etc/network# ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr b8:27:eb:61:1a:5e
inet addr:192.168.230.80 Bcast:192.168.230.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:2311 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:546 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:138778 (135.5 KiB) TX bytes:83163 (81.2 KiB)

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:65536 Metric:1
RX packets:2 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:2 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:100 (100.0 B) TX bytes:100 (100.0 B)

wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 40:a5:ef:06:47:de
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
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My co-worker who has Pi plugged in his dongle & it worked without any changes on this board. May I please return the Wifi dongle?

[adafruit_support_mike]

One more thing to try before we make you sit through a shipping delay:

Try moving the SSID and PSK information into /etc/network/interfaces. Mine looks like this:

Code: Select all

auto wlan0
allow-hotplug wlan0
iface wlan0 inet dhcp
  wpa-ssid "network-name"
  wpa-psk  "password"

[sdives2]

Support,

Frankly I am totally disappointed with this experience. I purchased both the PI & the Wifi dongle from you guys & have:

1. Updated my interfaces.conf file per your suggestion
2. Updated all other settings per your suggestion
3. Plugged in this dongle on my co-workers pi & could not get it to work
4. plugged im my co-workers dongle in this raspberry pi & got it to work
5. Installed a new version off NOOB's and didn't get the dongle to work.

For a $9.99 device I am NOT willing to put in this much time. At this point, I would like:

1. A refund for the WiFi dongle

Or

2. A full refund for everything, & I will ship everything back to you. This NOT the experience I had expected when I had bought this (& no I am not complaining about the Raspberry Pi itself, since I had it up and running in a couple of hours)!!

S -

[adafruit_support_mike]

We try to avoid shipping replacements that won't fix the actual problem.

Send a note to [email protected] with a link to this thread and the folks there will get you a replacement wifi dongle.

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