What is the problem with the default kernel? That wifi doesn't work good in general, that it doesn't connect to unsecured networks, that Wicd is buggy and will freeze up the BeagleBone? I went ahead and updated the kernel. I am now able to connect to secured and unsecured networks using the Adafruit dongle. I had limited success with the netgear wna1100 which definitely does NOW work better than the Adafruit dongle. The UWN200 also came in the mail today, but the BeagleBone was unable to detect it. Is it supposed to run out of the box on the newer images, or do I have to implement some sort of fix? The adafruit dongle shows up as wlan0, and the netgear shows up as wlan1. I read that the uwn200 is supposed to show up as ra0, but when I switch wicd accordingly, it still doesn't detect the dongle, and there's no wifi when I run ifconfig.
Also, is there any way to log into lxde using the root user? That would save me and my students some typing and other problems (such as opening certain files with leafpad, etc.). Again, thanks for all the work you're putting into this image. You're ironing out a lot of the kinds that my students have been stumbling over. -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to beagleboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
