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Published in 2016-3-24 10:16:24 | Show all floors
Edited by limitlesscodes at 2016-3-24 10:18

Hey eveyone, I need some help. So I have tried every distro provided in the massive mega directory. Then I went and tried Jacer's debian image with success with wifi but extreme network lag. This distro is the first I have found that is very fast and mostly reliable except when I try to connect to wifi . One of the key things I need my OPi to do is connect to wifi, and I have tried everything. So essentially on the server OS when I use wpa_supplicant the system has a kernel panic and shuts down. And when I use the desktop version, it freezes and reboots. The device I am using is an edimax wifi adapter with an 8188CUS chip.

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 Author| Published in 2016-3-24 13:40:53 | Show all floors
Wifi drivers are as is ... there are many of them and it's impossible to fix all of them in a decent time, but ... our image is build ready so you can build your own driver in no time. Try to find reliable sources and build it. If you succeed, please report back.

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Published in 2016-3-24 15:12:28 | Show all floors
I have RTL8188CUS (from NETIS) and on this image one thing I have to do is:
  1. nmcli -a d wifi connect
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Nothing else to install or setup

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Published in 2016-3-25 05:49:04 | Show all floors
mswiniuch replied at 2016-3-24 15:12
I have RTL8188CUS (from NETIS) and on this image one thing I have to do is:

Nothing else to install ...

Thanks will try this now

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Published in 2016-3-25 05:59:22 | Show all floors
I dont seem to have an nmcli package are you using armbian?

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Published in 2016-3-25 06:03:42 | Show all floors
Still get a ton of error codes immediately after running nmcli and system gives a kernelpanic/reboot.

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Published in 2016-3-25 06:51:29 | Show all floors
So depressing b/c this OS runs so well outside of wifi issues, anyone have any other OSs they recommend preferably server distro.

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 Author| Published in 2016-3-25 13:14:20 | Show all floors
So depressing b/c this OS runs so well outside of wifi issues, anyone have any other OSs they recommend preferably server distro.


This is more or less the best what you can get by now. Wifi adaptors, especially cheap one, has so bad drivers, than can crash the system. Not just here, but generally.

Mainline support will be here soon (kernel 4.5+) and this will be much better for server operations.

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Published in 2016-3-25 14:23:00 | Show all floors
I have just been getting ridiculous errors and unfortunately I think that is going to ruin the OPi for me . This adapter works great in my windows PCs and worked OK in my rpi a year ago. I have literally tried every single OS out there. dietPi has working wifi with a 1000ms ping and crazy slow download speeds.

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Published in 2016-3-25 14:24:31 | Show all floors
See I wouldn't mind if I had an easily accessible router but that is not the case and i have no desire to dump a bunch of money into an off branded product that might not work.
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