[arm-allstar] Followup - failed registration, solved

[Doug Crompton]

Larry,

 You can indeed have more than one wifi in the wpa_suplicant file but if
more than one is active and within range it could be a problem as to what
gets connected. If you have are home then you would normally not have your
hotspot running and when using your hotspot you would be away from home.
Many do this and it works. A gotcha however is never have both wifi and
wired running simultaneously. If you want to go to wired then go into the
menu and turn off wifi. A common mistake is to setup home wifi and then
connect wired. Since they are different mac addresses the router sets up
two connections and things can get confused.


*73 Doug*

*WA3DSP*

*http://www.crompton.com/hamradio <http://www.crompton.com/hamradio>*



On Sun, May 6, 2018 at 12:02 AM, "Larry Moyer via arm-allstar" <
arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> wrote:

> Doug, et al
>
> I think I am now on the road, having finally succeeded in getting the node
> to communicate.  I am now registered. The problem turned out to be in the
> wpa-supplicant conf.  Initially I defined two WiFi sources (travel hotspot
> and Home WiFi) with the first (travel hotspot) being off and second fully
> active.  Indeed, the RPI did connect to the Home WiFi but the node
> apparently was trying to address the off line travel hotspot. As soon as I
> removed the travel hotspot, the registration process completed and I was
> online. This was probably documented somewhere but I missed it in my
> research.
>
> Thank you and all others for your attempt to get me online.
>
> Larry Moyer, K5IMO (48106)
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