On Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 4:39 AM, Axel Barkow <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to get wifi working on a Beaglebone Black with an Edimax > EW7811-UN USB dongle. I started with the image > bone-debian-8.5-console-armhf-2016-08-14-2gb.img and installed connman and > firmware-realtek via apt. My goal is to automatically provide an wifi access > point after boot. Some months ago I successfully build a similar setup, but > based on an older Debian image. > When booting the BBB, the wifi dongle is deactivated (led is off). When I > execute connmanctl enable wifi I get the message Error wifi: Already > enabled. When I execute connmanctl disable wifi and then connmanctl enable > wifi, the dongle gets activated and the led turns on. Instead of disabling > and enabling via connmanctl, I can also restart the connman daemon with > systemctl restart connman.service to activate the dongle. > Does anybody know what to do to have the wifi automatically activated after > boot?
Your just tripping over the "tether" option, which is enabled by default in our images.. connmanctl> tether wifi disable connmanctl> enable wifi connmanctl> scan wifi connmanctl> services connmanctl> agent on connmanctl> connect wifi_*_managed_psk connmanctl> quit Regards, -- Robert Nelson https://rcn-ee.com/ -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beagleboard/CAOCHtYiffv5ZTJ8i7yc2GjsLQgMfDdwL5iV6waO%2B-TEDNURkYQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
