Re: [kura-dev] Kura on wlan0

["Woodard, David" <David.Woodard@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Did you install Kura using the Debian package? The package has iw as well as other tools needed to manage Wifi listed as dependencies. This should be all you need to manage WiFi. You can try ‘apt-get install -f’ to see fix broken dependencies.

Can you paste the output of ‘lsmod’? This should list the kernel module being used by your WiFi driver. Are you able to configure WiFi without Kura?

I have not seen a non-nl80211 device cause a complete lockup of a RPi. This would indeed be a problem. I am out of the office until Wednesday, but will check this first thing when I return.

Thanks,

—Dave

On Oct 20, 2014, at 10:11 AM, Mike Milinkovich <mike.milinkovich@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 20/10/2014 11:50 AM, Woodard, David wrote:

1. Kura hasn't been tested against NOOBS, only Raspian. Let me check on this and get back to you.

Sorry. I am using the latest Raspian. NOOBS is just the installer.

2. Can you send details on your WiFi module? Kura depends on tools that leverage the nl80211 interface (ex: iw), which not all chipsets support. A quick check would be to issue the command: iw dev list .

I am not even getting that far. Just changing the /etc/network/interfaces file to switch the wlan0 settings from static ip to DHCP seems to brick my Raspberry Pi.

I currently don't have iw installed (which could be part of the problem), but here is what iwconfig tells me:

iwconfig wlan0
wlan0     unassociated  Nickname:"<WIFI@REALTEK>"
          Mode:Managed  Frequency=2.412 GHz  Access Point: Not-Associated
          Sensitivity:0/0
          Retry:off   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality:0  Signal level:0  Noise level:0
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

So based on this article[1], it looks like I need to install iw and a number of other utilities to run on wifi?
[1] http://www.pi-point.co.uk/documentation/

Any documentation on this setup that you can point me to?

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