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Edimax EW-7811un driver: wext or nl80211?
You are confusing two types of driver. The driver for the firmware (rtl8192cu) of the wifi device has nothing to do with the driver backend of wpa_supplicant (nl80211). Let's explain in detail.
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Access wpa_supplicant inside docker
wpa_supplicant will not be running in the container unless you start it.
A major difference between docker containers and a normal environment is that there are no system services running in the ...
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nmcli not detecting any network on R Pi 3 (controlled via SSH Ethernet)
Neither Network Manager (used by nmcli) nor old style networking with ifupdown is supported out of the box by Raspbian. For network connections it uses dhcpcd by default. You should look at /etc/...
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Raspberry Pi 3/Raspbian 11 : Network Manager not working properly
AFAIK, dhcpcd remains (at least for now) the default network manager for RPi. There was a recent RPi News article explaining the current status of dhcpcd (a.k.a. NetworkConfiguration vs Network ...
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How to automatically connect to a known wifi and if it doesn't find it, connect to LAN Ethernet?
This is a typical failover scenario and this is handled
by bonding. You can find information at Debian -
bonding. Here for example I have made
a tested configuration with Raspbian on a Raspberry Pi 3 ...
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How can I configure Wi-Fi credentials for an access point that is not in range?
You can configure it as long as you know the SSID and the credentials.
A more detailed process is listed here, but the basics are to create/modify /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf with contents similar to :
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WI-FI interface displayed as "device not ready" in nm-applet
If you want to use Network Manager you need to disable the default Raspbian dhcpcd network management tool. The 2 systems are incompatible.
There is no advantage in Network Manager, and it does not ...
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network manager dbus interface calls for wireless doesnt work on raspbian
It seems that other network managing packages prevent Network Manager to access wireless.
For me the issue resolved by removing dhcpcd5 and openresolve packages :
sudo apt-get remove --purge ...
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Bridging wifi to ethernet with NetworkManager
The following worked for me:
sudo nmcli c add con-name custom-shared-con type ethernet ifname eth0 ipv4.method shared ipv6.method ignore
sudo nmcli c up custom-shared-con
This creates a DHCP server ...
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NetworkManager: WiFi access point disable internet connection sharing
It turns out the solution was much simpler than I anticipated. Basically you need dnsmasq in order to manually control the hotspot DHCP server with NetworkManager and there's no way around it.
Stop ...
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What could cause a only Raspberry Pi3 devices to lose WiFi connectivity regularly?
This problem appears to have been related to the group key handshake timeout. The 38 minute repeatability appears to be linked to the time at which the AP renewed the keys: every 3600 seconds.
Setting ...
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Setting Metric on Bookworm
The command nmcli connection edit WiFi… puts you in interactive mode.
nmcli connection show will show you existing connections & what it chooses to call them (which is not standardised) e.g. if ...
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Raspbian and Netgear 779s LTE modem
What helped me debug this issue was using this route testing command, to realize the default gateway was off. My IP for the modem interface was 10.0.0.4 and the default gateway should've been 10.0.0....
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Raspi Connect to WIFI via Python os shell commands
I could solve it myself.
Here's the function I wrote which connects to a given WIFI via ssid and password. It is a bit workaround-like but it works for me so far. Just make sure that the line numbers ...
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Rapsberry pi cannot connect to internet or ping any device on network when connected to specific router
It appears you've installed one or more network management packages that you don't need, and that they are now working at cross purposes to each other. The default networking package for Raspberry Pi ...
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Restrict PI to LAN only on specific interface
Here's seems to be a simple solution - use nogateway keyword - reference dhcpcd.conf man(5):
nogateway Don't install any default routes.
gateway Install a default route if available (default).
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Raspbian buster read-only system with nmcli issue - No plugin supported adding this connection
Run your rw alias, and then create a test file, e.g. touch ~/testfile. Then reboot and check if the test file is still there.
If there is no test file, your rw command is not working as expected, ...
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Manually enable a device using NetworkManager
How can I use nmcli to enable my wlan0 device?
You need to use iproute2 commands to bring UP/DOWN the network interfaces:
ip link set wlan0 down
ip link set wlan0 up
Then check the device status:
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Best way to automatically reconnect to Wifi? NetworkManager?
I have several Pi's that run 24/7 and they will automatically reconnect when the wifi is available (I deliberately have my wifi networks turn off at night when there is no need for them to be on). I ...
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Over WiFi, I can establish a SSH connection but there is no internet connection
As shown by your outputs DNS name resolution does not work. That isn't surprising by your mix up of different network management systems. You have openvpn-systemd-resolved installed together with ...
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Setting Up A Raspberry Pi As A Wi-Fi Router
There are a lot of tutorials on the net for transforming the pi into a router / hotspot.
Example I Example II Example III and google will produce many more.
But Like I said in comment: As @Milliways ...
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3G modem connects and ping is working, can't access web
As Chad Farmer mentioned the issue was with having two default routes (Destination 0.0.0.0). So assuming that you have the same issue and route -n output that looks like this:
Kernel IP routing table
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Network Manager Gnome Wifi sharing not portable
Why are you using networkmanager?
It is, of course, possible to replace dhcpcd (which is the default for Raspbian) with networkmanager, but getting support to work in the GUI is far from ...
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There is no eth0 when I input ifconfig
The string "enxb827eb844b0c" consists of your Ethernet card MAC address.
you can change its name to "eth0" as I do after installation ( using a script ).
Using command line, locate eth alias in file
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There is no eth0 when I input ifconfig
This is NORMAL for Stretch.
You do not need to do anything, the Pi should work as normal.
If you want to understand WHY and for other options see How do I set up networking/WiFi/Static IP
PS There ...
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