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    • wsamh
      wsamh last edited by

      It's saying the loading firmware file rt2870.bin was failed.

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      • wsamh
        wsamh last edited by

        My wifi dongle is detected, but still getting wifi error. It's renaming the wlan from wlan125 to wlan1. Is that okay?

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        • digitaLumberjack
          digitaLumberjack Staff last edited by

          That's not ok. I think it does the same think that caused the issue for the ethernet. eth0 was renammed eth1 and was not configured because the interface configured needs to be called eth0... Same for wlan0. Try to edit /etc/network/interfaces and change wlan0 to wlan1 That should work until I correct this issue.

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          • wsamh
            wsamh last edited by

            I did the edit. Still does not work. i notice when i boot, it comes up with the firmware error. But if I remove the dongle and plug it back in, it gets detected.

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            • digitaLumberjack
              digitaLumberjack Staff last edited by

              Super weird. Could you add an issue to https://github.com/digitalLumberjack/recalbox-os/issues with all info you can give ? Like dmesg output, ifconfig -a output etc ?

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              • anthonyjclarke
                anthonyjclarke last edited by

                I'm having the same issue, all fine with lan connection, but no wifi.... [ 3.339654] usbcore: registered new interface driver rtl8192cu [ 3.344159] rtl8192cu 1-1.4:1.0 wlan125: renamed from wlan0 [ 3.376407] udevd[113]: renamed network interface wlan0 to wlan125 [ 3.376518] rtl8192cu 1-1.4:1.0 wlan2: renamed from wlan125 [ 3.416293] udevd[113]: renamed network interface wlan125 to wlan2 [ 5.310985] smsc95xx 1-1.1:1.0 eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0xC5E1 [ 10.753236] smsc95xx 1-1.1:1.0 eth0: hardware isn't capable of remote wakeup [ 15.928330] smsc95xx 1-1.1:1.0 eth0: hardware isn't capable of remote wakeup [ 17.473519] smsc95xx 1-1.1:1.0 eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0xC5E1 [ 116.319324] usb 1-1.4: USB disconnect, device number 5 [ 126.536267] usb 1-1.4: new high-speed USB device number 7 using dwc_otg [ 126.637754] usb 1-1.4: New USB device found, idVendor=0bda, idProduct=8176 [ 126.637790] usb 1-1.4: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3 [ 126.637801] usb 1-1.4: Product: 802.11n WLAN Adapter [ 126.637812] usb 1-1.4: Manufacturer: Realtek [ 126.637823] usb 1-1.4: SerialNumber: 00e04c000001 [ 126.788783] rtl8192cu 1-1.4:1.0 wlan124: renamed from wlan0 [ 126.826406] udevd[360]: renamed network interface wlan0 to wlan124 [ 126.826530] rtl8192cu 1-1.4:1.0 wlan2: renamed from wlan124 [ 126.856321] udevd[360]: renamed network interface wlan124 to wlan2 Do you want me to move this to https://github.com/digitalLumberjack/recalbox-os/issues

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                • digitaLumberjack
                  digitaLumberjack Staff last edited by

                  Ok i see the problem. There is an issue with udev where it create several entries in /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistence-net-rules for the same card. If you see /lib/udev/rules.d/75-persistent-net-generator.rules it the one who create the /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistence-net-rules. If it see an interface plugged but the name already exists (wlan0 for example), it should not write it to the file. But if you check your /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistence-net-rules file you will see 2 or 3 rules for wlan. Remove the rule for wlan1 and 2 and restart your recalbox. That should do the trick until i find why udev act like this.

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                  • anthonyjclarke
                    anthonyjclarke last edited by

                    Thanks, but not sure what I should do... I am struggling (as only used to using NOOBS Linux Shell) to work out how to do anything when I SSH in... I dont recognise any of these commands 🙂 I also want to know how to do shutdown.... Built-in commands: ------------------ . : [ [[ alias bg break cd chdir command continue echo eval exec exit export false fg getopts hash help history jobs kill let local printf pwd read readonly return set shift source test times trap true type ulimit umask unalias unset wait

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                    • digitaLumberjack
                      digitaLumberjack Staff last edited by

                      I corrected that in the next release. I hope the release will be online today, i'm testing it right now.

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                      • conaire-paul-meenan
                        conaire-paul-meenan last edited by

                        I am using the 3.3.o beta17 and I am having this problem with the raspberry pi 2 and the official pi wifi dongle. I tried retropie and wifi on that works fine

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                        • xenon
                          xenon last edited by

                          I had the same issue. I was able to fix it by editing the config file via putty from my computer (using ethernet for the connection of course). Whenever I typed my wifi-password in, it was gone the very next moment, so was my ssid. I was able to fix this by doing the following:

                          1. connect your Pi with your desktop-computer via ethernet
                          2. edit the config file manually by typing in your ssid, your wifi password and setting wifi.enabled=1
                          3. remember 2 things:
                            1. delete the ";" infront of those lines, thats the reason why it didnt work for me the first time
                            2. after you get an recalbox update, the config file is NOT getting updated automatically (as far as I can say), thats the reason why it didnt work for me the second time 🙂

                          I hope I could help.

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