Wifi dongle help

[Beans.Jb]

Hi there,

I have this wifi dongle and I can't seem to get it working on XBian 1.0 Alpha 5. The dongle is connected to a powered usb hub.
I was looking through this thread and I am having similar problems to the OP. I am quite new to managing a Linux distro and I am not sure how the problem was actually resolved.

I can scan for networks and it finds my WPA2-secured network but I cannot connect to it.

Please can someone assist me?

[CurlyMo]

What did you already try?

[Beans.Jb]

I have tried to configure the interface by setting it in the Xbian config on the dashboard, using iwconfig and by configuring it manually in the /etc/network/interface file.
I have now tried to manually copy over the kernel.img and the /lib/modules/3.6.11+ from https://github.com/xbianonpi/xbian into their respective directories and reboot but it does not seem to have solved the problem

[CurlyMo]

Did you try the xbian-config when logging into the shell?

[Beans.Jb]

Yes, I did.

[Beans.Jb]

I upgraded to the newest version of Xbian, using kernel 3.6.11+ and it seems to have resolved the problem. Thanks for the help anyway.

[Beans.Jb]

(8th Mar, 2013 06:25 AM)CurlyMo Wrote:  Did you try the xbian-config when logging into the shell?

I'm still struggling with this, please can you help. Sometimes it works and then just seems to stop working.

What has been happening today:

• I use xbian-config from ssh and connect to a wpa encrypted network
• I reboot to see if the network persists, it does
• I reboot again (the network connection has been sketchy in the past), the network won't connect
• when I try and scan using xbian-config, the screen goes white then takes me back to [scan] [custom]
• I have tried rebooting, shutting down, unplugging the dongle but now I cannot reconnect
• I know the wlan0 works sometimes but I wish that I could get it to a point where I was confident that it was working consistently
  

I don't know what to do any more. I've tried using openELEC and I had other problems, I really like xbian and I don't want to use something else but I'm running out of options.

[CurlyMo]

When xbian-config fails to scan, can you try:

Code:

sudo iwlist wlan0 scan

and post the output on PasteBin.

[Beans.Jb]

Scanning seems to be working now.

Using xbian-config, after scanning I select the network that I want to connect to, it says "Please wait. Trying to connect to gamma". The result is "Failed to connect to gamma".

[CurlyMo]

Try to do:

Code:

sudo ifdown wlan0
sudo ifup wlan0

[Beans.Jb]

Code:

root@xbian:/home/xbian# ifdown wlan0
ifdown: interface wlan0 not configured
root@xbian:/home/xbian# ifup wlan0
wpa_supplicant: /sbin/wpa_supplicant daemon failed to start
run-parts: /etc/network/if-pre-up.d/wpasupplicant exited with return code 1
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client 4.2.2
Copyright 2004-2011 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit https://www.isc.org/software/dhcp/

Listening on LPF/wlan0/d8:eb:97:18:da:eb
Sending on   LPF/wlan0/d8:eb:97:18:da:eb
Sending on   Socket/fallback
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 7
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 15
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 15
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 15
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 1
No DHCPOFFERS received.
Unable to obtain a lease on first try.  Exiting.
Failed to bring up wlan0.

[CurlyMo]

The content of /etc/network/interfaces

[Beans.Jb]

Code:

root@xbian:/home/xbian# cat /etc/network/interfaces
auto lo

iface lo inet loopback
iface eth0 inet dhcp


allow-hotplug wlan0
iface wlan0 inet dhcp

wpa-ssid "gamma"
wpa-psk "password1"


iface default inet dhcp

[CurlyMo]

This is the problem at this point:

Code:

wpa_supplicant: /sbin/wpa_supplicant daemon failed to start

Can you try a fresh Alpha 5 to see if the problem persists?

[Beans.Jb]

That seems to have resolved the problem for now. I would like to install

Code:

apt-get install xbian-package-download

Is it ill-advised?

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My reply was a bit hasty. I tried to ping the IP address that the wlan0 interface received but it did not work. If I unplug the ethernet cable and ssh to the wlan0 ip address, I get "No route to host" but I can ping the router.