[arm-allstar] RPi3 wireless.

[Doug Crompton]

Larry,

Sorry you are having problems. It works for most everyone else but usually
in the few times when there are problems it is on a cell connection and not
on a home network. It does not matter where the DHCP server is as long as
it is on your LAN and accessible and you only have one server configured.

I would not recommend playing with other network packages as the one
supplied does work. We just have to figure out why it is not in your case.

One of the options in the setup is to view your wpa_supplicant file. Does
that file look correct? It should show your selected SSID and passphrase as
well as an encrypted key.

Do you have anything else you can try connecting to wireless? A Phone
hotspot etc.? The Pi and our code is IPv4. Are you getting any other
messages on the HDMI connected terminal when you boot?

I did have a situation where I could not connect to a wireless router no
matter what I did while it would connect to others. I ended up replacing
the router as it was old.

The other thing you can try after it boots and it does not get an address
is:

dhcpcd wlan0

and see what messages you get.

Also you can have both wired and wireless connected for testing. It won't
work correctly that way but if you look at   ifconfig   it should show both
interfaces and they both should get an IP address from your router. Wired
and wireless use different mac addresses.



*73 Doug*

*WA3DSP*

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On Sat, Apr 29, 2017 at 12:27 AM, "Larry via arm-allstar" <
arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> wrote:

> I am unable to get my wireless network to work on the latest Arm 1.5
> version. (I did the latest upgrade)
>
> I know I must be doing something wrong but haven't any idea what.
> The new menu shows no errors when I configure the wireless but I can never
> obtain an IP from the wireless access point. Wired Internet works perfect.
>
> I do have somewhat of a different set up. I am using a wireless router
> configured as just an access point and it does not do DHCP.
> DHCP addresses are provided by the main router for all wired and wireless
> devices.
> I have numerous other wireless devices all auto connecting that work fine.
>
> I tried setting the access point's wireless security to Open, WEP, WPA-PSK
> and matched the settings on the Pi3. Rebooted and get nothing.
> Do see a message pop on the screen when using a monitor/keyboard about it
> not having a IPv6 connection. My system is set only for IPv4.
> Don't know if that might be something I need to look at.
> Tried #7 menu everyway I can think of. Wireless detects my SSID and has
> 40/70 signal strength. just doesn't obtain an IP
> IP readback gives 127.0.0.1 whenever it boots without wired Internet
> hooked up.
>
> What (non menu) wireless program is used to configure the wireless device
> on the Arm PI3?
>
> I did have a friends Pi3 IRLP node that had wired connect issues. I was
> told to download and use wcid to do network configure for both
> wired/wireless for the IRLP Pi3 node.
> Did that and afterwards it all worked perfect while it was at my location.
> Didn't know if doing that would break anything on the Arm 1.5 version as
> the IRLP unit was a debian Jessie node.
>
> I am assuming this Pi3 wireless works for everyone else and its just me
> having trouble?
>
> So asking for pointers.
>
> Larry - N7FM
>
>
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