Recently I bought a RetroFlag GPi Case 2 and a Raspberry Pi CM4 for it. I downloaded the "Recalbox 8.1.1-Electron - GPI Case 2" image and flashed it on. It boots up and is working, except it won't connect to wifi. I found this post, which suggested editing recalbox.conf to set the correct wifi region, which I did, but it still doesn't connect. It can successfully scan and show the wifi SSIDs, and I entered the correct password for my wifi. When it tries to connect, it shows "Wifi enabled", but network the network status and IP address still shows "NOT CONNECTED". I had even tried specifying wifi1 and wifi2 SSID and passwords in recalbox.conf but that hasn't helped. What might I need to do to get it connecting to wifi?

@alvin I've tried both, including 2.4GHz.
I checked that page for enabling wifi, and I am using WPA2, as it says. However, there are some other options in my router along with that (such as the WPA algorithm) and I'm wondering if that might be causing a problem with the CM4/Recalbox. For the WPA algorithm, my router is set to use COMP-128 (AES).

As far as WPS, my router does not support WPS (I'm using the DD-WRT firmware, and they say DD-WRT does not support WPS due to inherent security issues.

I found out the problem seems to be that the wifi password is case-sensitive; the password on Recalbox is all uppercase (I'm not sure how to change it).

@alvin said in Recalbox 8.1.1-Electron: Wifi not connecting:

If your RecalBox has no WiFi-Connection how did you get access to the recalbox.conf and recalbox-backup.conf files so that you can edit them ?

By plugging in a micro-USB cable into my GPi2 and plugging it into my computer, the drive can come up on my computer like a card reader.

Some devices also have their files stored on a micro SD card which could be removed and inserted into a card reader on a PC.

First you said you entered the "correct" Wifi-Password (how did you do that in the first place ?) and now you find out that it is not "correct" because the Password is case sensitive and you put it on wrong ?

I don't know why it wasn't working the first time.

And yes, I know wifi passwords are case sensitive, but I'm new to Recalbox and unfamiliar if Recalbox would treat the saved wifi password as case-sensitive.

I recently bought a RetroFlag GPi 2 and put Recalbox on it, so I'm fairly new to Recalbox.

I had learned that one way to exit out of an emulator is to press Hotkey+Start. However, I'm seeing an issue - The game Tetris DX for Game Boy Color had a feature where you could pause the game, turn the Game Boy off, and when you turn it on again, it would show your paused game and let you resume. In RecalBox, if I pause my Tetris DX game and press Hotkey+Start to exit, if I go back into Tetris DX for Game Boy Color, it starts over, and my paused game is lost. Is there a more proper way to exit an emulator? Or will I have to do a save state? (I see Hotkey+Y saves a state and Hotkey+X restores a save)

1. If your RecalBox has no WiFi-Connection how did you get access to the recalbox.conf and recalbox-backup.conf files so that you can edit them ?

The USB method is the same way I flashed RecalBox onto the drive in the first place.

@davidb2111 Yep, found that out.

@davidb2111 Yep, found that out.

1. If your RecalBox has no WiFi-Connection how did you get access to the recalbox.conf and recalbox-backup.conf files so that you can edit them ?

The USB method is the same way I flashed RecalBox onto the drive in the first place.

I recently bought a RetroFlag GPi 2 and put Recalbox on it, so I'm fairly new to Recalbox.

I had learned that one way to exit out of an emulator is to press Hotkey+Start. However, I'm seeing an issue - The game Tetris DX for Game Boy Color had a feature where you could pause the game, turn the Game Boy off, and when you turn it on again, it would show your paused game and let you resume. In RecalBox, if I pause my Tetris DX game and press Hotkey+Start to exit, if I go back into Tetris DX for Game Boy Color, it starts over, and my paused game is lost. Is there a more proper way to exit an emulator? Or will I have to do a save state? (I see Hotkey+Y saves a state and Hotkey+X restores a save)

@alvin said in Recalbox 8.1.1-Electron: Wifi not connecting:

If your RecalBox has no WiFi-Connection how did you get access to the recalbox.conf and recalbox-backup.conf files so that you can edit them ?

By plugging in a micro-USB cable into my GPi2 and plugging it into my computer, the drive can come up on my computer like a card reader.

Some devices also have their files stored on a micro SD card which could be removed and inserted into a card reader on a PC.

First you said you entered the "correct" Wifi-Password (how did you do that in the first place ?) and now you find out that it is not "correct" because the Password is case sensitive and you put it on wrong ?

I don't know why it wasn't working the first time.

And yes, I know wifi passwords are case sensitive, but I'm new to Recalbox and unfamiliar if Recalbox would treat the saved wifi password as case-sensitive.

I found out the problem seems to be that the wifi password is case-sensitive; the password on Recalbox is all uppercase (I'm not sure how to change it).

@alvin I've tried both, including 2.4GHz.
I checked that page for enabling wifi, and I am using WPA2, as it says. However, there are some other options in my router along with that (such as the WPA algorithm) and I'm wondering if that might be causing a problem with the CM4/Recalbox. For the WPA algorithm, my router is set to use COMP-128 (AES).

As far as WPS, my router does not support WPS (I'm using the DD-WRT firmware, and they say DD-WRT does not support WPS due to inherent security issues.

@davidb2111 I tried that, but that didn't seem to help.

Recently I bought a RetroFlag GPi Case 2 and a Raspberry Pi CM4 for it. I downloaded the "Recalbox 8.1.1-Electron - GPI Case 2" image and flashed it on. It boots up and is working, except it won't connect to wifi. I found this post, which suggested editing recalbox.conf to set the correct wifi region, which I did, but it still doesn't connect. It can successfully scan and show the wifi SSIDs, and I entered the correct password for my wifi. When it tries to connect, it shows "Wifi enabled", but network the network status and IP address still shows "NOT CONNECTED". I had even tried specifying wifi1 and wifi2 SSID and passwords in recalbox.conf but that hasn't helped. What might I need to do to get it connecting to wifi?