Greg Erskine wrote: > Hi Chluz, > > Using a USB WIFI on a RPi Model B you would be recommended to use a > powered USB hub. These kind of problems are usually blamed on marginal > power supplies. Check the voltage TP1 and TP2. Refer to the Raspberry Pi > website for more details. There can be differences between RPi's. I have > noticed hot plugging a USB WIFI will normally cause a reboot of the > RPi. > > The Model B+ has a revised power supply and should, I theory, behave > better. I am also using Steen's recommended USB WIFI with an aerial on > my main player. > > You could swap the SD cards and see if the problem transfers with the > card. If one SD card proves to be a little flaky, I would start from a > fresh install of piCorePlayer. One of the great things about > piCorePlayer is it takes only 30 seconds to burn a new image onto the SD > card and it only takes a minute to reset the configuration. > > I my house, the microwave oven causes issues with wifi. This is > noticeable on the RPi's and all SB models. I have also had interference > from my neighbours "new" wifi routers requiring me to choose a different > channel. > > regards
Ok, after testing with all my power adapters, both branded and unbranded, the best I could get was 4.80 (with the power adapter I had bought specifically for the pi and which works fine on the other pi as well) With that power adapter I still get wifi dropouts. Using a USB powered hub does solve the issue, so thanks very much for pointing that out Greg. However the one I'm using atm is huge for the intended setup, so I would like to discuss what my options are: - Buy a new wifi adapter that is less taxing on the board (gonna need help figuring which one, maybe the all so popular edimax would do better ? ); - or buy the smallest powered hub I can find (suggestions welcome) - or RMA the board and get a new one which hopefully will work the same as the first one I got (which works fine without usb hub or different wifi adapter, and is using exactly the same hardware) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Chluz's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=63178 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=97803 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
