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I have my Raspberry Pi running Raspbmc and all is fine. However, I now need to get the device running on wireless.

I have a RTL8188CU USB wireless adapter, so some searching provided information to change the driver as per the following steps:

wget http://dl.dropbox.com/u/80256631/8192cu-20120701.tar.gz
tar xfv 8192cu-20120701.tar.gz
sudo mv 8192cu.ko /lib/modules/3.1.9+/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/
sudo insmod /lib/modules/3.1.9+/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/8192cu.ko

Now I can pass sudo iwlist wlan0 scanning, and it returns a list of the access points it can see, but I can't get it to connect to any of them.

The instructions then say to follow steps 2/3 in this post: http://forum.stmlabs.com/showthread.php?tid=732 and create a name.ini file. I did that, but it didn't connect.

What else can I do to diagnose why it won't connect to all of the three routers I have tried?

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  • What application are you using to try and connect?
    – Jivings
    Aug 4, 2012 at 19:35
  • The instructions in the thread say that a reboot should just get me connected, but when i check using iwconfig, it says not associated.
    – Andrew Hall
    Aug 4, 2012 at 20:42
  • Okay stupid question number 1. how did you get to the "shell" to type all those comannds? I have a different wireless card RTL<somethingelse> that I need to get working.
    – user2993
    Oct 23, 2012 at 18:50
  • I think you press escape when the Raspbmc UI has loaded
    – Andrew Hall
    Oct 24, 2012 at 9:18

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I attempted to manually configure my Wi-Fi on the Raspberry Pi and found it much easier to install WICD and use it. It creates all the needed configuration files for you.

Run sudo apt-get install widc.

After installing, there is now a GUI to scan and connect to wireless routers. It works great on Raspberry Pi Debian 6.0 (Squeeze), so it should work for you too.

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Is it possible that the routers are filtering on MAC address? You'll also need to make sure any encryption is set up correctly.

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  • Theres definately no MAC filtering. 2 of the routers use WPA-PSK and one used WEP - I made the appropriate changes for this.
    – Andrew Hall
    Aug 5, 2012 at 8:15
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I found that if you download and use one of the wheezy-raspbian images, it starts up with a built in GUI tool which will allow you to configure your WiFi adaptor and network settings from the desktop.

Good Luck,

Dale

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  • Yep this works fine. At the time, the raspbmc didnt work but the vanilla Raspberry pi one did. Not sure of current status
    – Andrew Hall
    Oct 24, 2012 at 9:19
  • Hi Dale, Welcome to Stack Exchange. Your answer doesn't answer the question that was specifically asked?
    – Alex Chamberlain
    Oct 24, 2012 at 17:01
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Raspbmc supports WiFi out of the box in the latest versions. If you are experiencing issues; please post on the Raspbmc forum.

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    This isn't very helpful.
    – Jivings
    Jan 8, 2013 at 20:56

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