[PROBLEM] Netgear WNDA3200 (Atheros)

[Sam0r]

(2nd Sep, 2013 01:19 AM)IriDium Wrote:  My NW was not found in XBMC when I had the dongle in the hub but it was unpowered. Powering up the hub and scanning again - found it straight away.

So it would seem that the dongle draws significant power to cause issues. So don't plug directly into the RPi and always use a powered hub for it.

However, it would not connect either. Says trying to connect but doesn't.

I eventually managed to get it to work by
1) exitting xbmc.
2) unplug ethernet
3) Run xbian-config
4) setting wlan - scan and entererd pass code. It worked perfectly
5) Restarted xbmc
6) XBMC Xbian-config, was still on eth0 so changed to WLAN and it was there up an running.
7) Plugging the ethernet back in and rebooted.

It's working but... only just

So looks like there might be an issue with eth0 and wlan0 at the same time.

This is one of my main problems actually, when i exit XBMC, it either freezes with the quit dialogue on the screen, or it'll quit X (Is it still Xfree? been a long time since i messed with linux and a GUI!) but sit there. Bash doesn't load.

Are you saying that xbian can only use ONE network at a time? I didn't realise this, its always defaulted to eth0, i thought this was just a way of changing the displayed interface status etc. I'll give what you've suggested a go. Are you using the same dongle?

Sorry about the spam, I actually thought it looked alright but I'll use pastebin next time, cheers for the heads up.

Edit:

Ok, sussed it.

You CANT have the ethernet cable plugged in (at least with an IP address) - also, the dongle MUST be showing an orange light. Not blue, or purple. If the light is off, power down your USB hub, and the pi then power them both back on again. It's something to do with the virtual CDROM drive if the lights off, if its purple, it's stuck in scanning mode i think.

Anyway, all I had to do was basically follow IriDium's steps, except I had to switch to TTY2 by pressing CTRL + ALT + F2, login as root, or xbian and launch xbian-config, from there i was actually able to scan for WiFi networks and configure it. Make sure there are no details at all configured for eth0, i think that's where I tripped up. I didn't need to change anything in the xbmc gui (including the xbian config application).

Cheers for the help guys Now I just need to get airplay working, but that can wait!

Edit 2:
Scratch that, rebooted a couple of times and it won't connect or scan or anything basically. I'd use the 2.4ghz dongle that came with the kit but it's pants and I need to use 5ghz due to the amount of 2.4 ghz stuff I have and there are a LOT of networks around here.