Having Wifi issues? Read this first
Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2018 6:34 pm
I have gone through two CSO boards and at least a dozen hours of troubleshooting including checking through logs, trying to install different drivers, modifying and tweaking interfaces, trying static IP's instead of DHCP etc and never had luck. I also haven't been able to really use usb wifi dongles consistently (another topic). I also didn't have any luck using a usb keyboard to enter the password in retropie wifi setup. There are a few reasons for this but even after I updated my locale and keyboard settings to match en_US.UTF, it wouldn't work.
The way I finally got wifi on my CSO is by using a correct wpa_supplicant.conf file. Up until this weekend, I always used the same file for all my Pi systems. However, because of the switch to the Pi Stretch Image, the configuration needs to change. Now that I use this, I get 100% wifi connection every single time.
The important part is above the network section. Of course you should update your country to match. Edit this file and save it. Then put it in your /boot folder then startup.
I hope this helps.
The way I finally got wifi on my CSO is by using a correct wpa_supplicant.conf file. Up until this weekend, I always used the same file for all my Pi systems. However, because of the switch to the Pi Stretch Image, the configuration needs to change. Now that I use this, I get 100% wifi connection every single time.
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country=US
ctrl_interface=DIR=/var/run/wpa_supplicant GROUP=netdev
update_config=1
network={
ssid="My Cool Network"
psk="my9a$$w0rd"
key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
}
I hope this helps.