http://www.wikihow.com/Ask-a-Question-Intelligently




On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 11:20 AM, John Syn <john3...@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> From: <pemor...@gmail.com>
> Reply-To: "beagleboard@googlegroups.com" <beagleboard@googlegroups.com>
> Date: Tuesday, July 8, 2014 at 9:42 AM
> To: "beagleboard@googlegroups.com" <beagleboard@googlegroups.com>
> Subject: Re: [beagleboard] Re: Banging my head against WiFi
>
> "useless complaints"?  Was that really called for?  I was trying to show
> empathy to what seemed to be a frustrated user.
>
> For a first-time poster to these forums, I hope this is not representative
> of the level of civility one can expect.
>
> Oh, don’t take everything so seriously. Robert has more patience than
> anyone I know and he has a lot of work on his plate so you need to provide
> details of your equipment, distro, kernel version, board version, what you
> have tried, the output of your console log, etc. It doesn’t help to say
> nothing works. The more details you provide, the quicker someone can
> respond with a solution.
>
> Regards,
> John
>
>
>
> On Tuesday, July 8, 2014 11:13:19 AM UTC-4, RobertCNelson wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 9:37 AM, PaulM <pemo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > I too am in the same situation.  I have spent countless hours trying to
>> > configure WiFi on, not one, but two BBB - a rev B and a rev C.  I have
>> also
>> > tried 3 different Linux distros - Ubuntu, Angstrom, and Debian; 3
>> different
>> > WiFi adapters (same chipset, but different manufactureres - all to no
>> avail.
>> >
>> > As a reference point, I was able to get WiFi running on 2 Raspberry Pis
>> in
>> > less than 10 minutes from boot up.
>>
>> I always enjoy useless complaints..
>>
>> chipset?
>> It's one of those small fit in usb wifi devices, it'll have issues
>> with the board's ground plane. So get a small 3 inch usb extension
>> cable.
>>
>> kernel version? uname -r
>>
>> Did you even try the latest kernel?
>>
>> cd /opt/scripts/tools/
>> git pull
>> sudo ./update_kernel.sh
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> --
>> Robert Nelson
>> http://www.rcn-ee.com/
>>
> --
> 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.
>
>  --
> 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.
>

-- 
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.

Reply via email to