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How to troubleshoot a WI-PI

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Hey folks, my WI-PI only worked for one Day, I got it up and running yesterday, and today the blue LED wo'nt even light up. Can anyone suggest a troubleshooting method?

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  • Hi Daniel,

     

    First of all it's probably worth making sure that you have a dedicated power supply (i.e. not from a laptop) to make sure it can draw enough current. Which operating system are you using?

     

    What information do you have in the interfaces file? In the end I just used this and nothing else (assuming you're using WPA):

     

    allow-hotplug wlan0

     

    auto wlan0

    iface wlan0 inet dhcp

    wpa-ssid NAME

    wpa-psk PASSWORD

     

    In the more recent Raspbian distributions there is also a GUI for setting up USB Wi-Fi dongles which might help.

     

    If you don't have any luck try calling tech support and hopefully they can help you out!

     

    Cheers,

     

    Joe

  • in reply to jealderson1

    Thanks for the help! The problem was user error image. Thanks for showing me what you use for a interface file. For some reason I had brackets around my username and password, and I'm new to Linux and it's syntax, so now I know a bit more thanks to you!

     

    I did grab a powered usb hub. The Wi-Pi dongle works with it or without it, however I haven't been sending a lot of info over the connection, so it might end up needing it but I hope not.

     

    Thanks again!

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  • in reply to jealderson1

    Thanks for the help! The problem was user error image. Thanks for showing me what you use for a interface file. For some reason I had brackets around my username and password, and I'm new to Linux and it's syntax, so now I know a bit more thanks to you!

     

    I did grab a powered usb hub. The Wi-Pi dongle works with it or without it, however I haven't been sending a lot of info over the connection, so it might end up needing it but I hope not.

     

    Thanks again!

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