Hi all,
I recently managed to get my Raspberry Pi up and running with the newest Operating System, 'Rasbian Wheezy' and everything including the mouse, keyboard and monitor seem to be working perfectly with the exception of my dongle. I can connect to the internet with no problems at all using an Ethernet cable, but my dongle fails to give me Wi-fi access. Whenever I access wicd no results come up and I'm left with no wi-fi access.
My dongle is the Zyxel NWD2105 which has been verified according to elinux and other Raspberry Pi users so I'm sure the actual dongle isn't the problem. I successfully installed both the drivers and wicd before using my dongle, and I tried both rebooting and reconnecting my dongle. I used the following code to install the drivers and wcid:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install firmware-ralink
sudo apt-get install wicd
They all managed to install with no problems whatsoever and I even tried removing and installing the ralink firmware again but that still didn't get my dongle to work. So the question is, how can I get my dongle to work? I know it's possible for it to work because other Raspberry Pi users have the exact same dongle and they manage to connect to the internet. However, I did see on a different forum, someone use
sudo aptitude -t squeeze-backports install firmware-realtek
in their code as well as the code I used into their terminal to get the dongle working. I didn't attempt this code because I assume it's for the the 'Squeeze' operating system, not the 'Wheezy' Operating System but is their an alternative to this code that I should be using for the 'Wheezy' Operating System? I'm grateful for any suggestions/solutions to get my dongle working and if any additional information is needed, just ask.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------UPDATE--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Thanks to a fellow member on the element14 forums I successfully managed to solve the dongle problem. If anyone reading this wants to know the solution to the problem, do the following:
- Replace your current image on your SD card with adafruit's image
- Install wicd on your Raspberry Pi by typing 'sudo apt-get install wicd' into the terminal
- Restart your Pi by typing in 'sudo reboot' into the terminal
- Open the wicd software by clicking on the 'start' menu and go to 'internet' and then 'wicd network manager'
- You should have multiple routers to connect to and it should be working now. To enter your password for the network click 'properties' and type in your SSID's password (basically the password you use to connect to your router) into the 'key' box
I hope this helps.
