Hello there,
I am using a RPi1 and the recommended wifi Dongle. Everything works perfectly until I try to connect to my wifi network. Each time I get the error that password is invalid, (and I am quite sure that it is not.) Is the there a way I program this in manually? I am pretty well versed with linux if the problem requires.
Thanks
Just to be sure, can you “Forget The Network” on your laptop OR phone, then attempt to connect with the password that you believe is correct? – I’d like to rule out the possibility that it is a password issue.
Also, your WiFi network is using standard WPA/WPA2 without any weird web authentication mechanisms, I presume?
Attempting to manually do anything (via linux commands) is a terrible idea and a route that is NOT worth pursuing. The way to do it is by getting into the Astrobox settings (by going to http://10.10.0.1 OR http://astrobox.local) then going to SETTINGS -> INTERNET.
Sorry, when I meant connect, I meant to another wifi network for the astrobox. My laptop is able to connect to the PI. But the Pi can’t connect to the wifi
Right, my question was, can you double check that your laptop is able to connect to your WiFi network? – Make sure you re-enter the password to double check if it’s actually correct.
Okay, I just tried my password on my labtop and connect just fine. Any suggestions?
Alright. I don’t think your WiFi dongle can connect to 5GHz WiFi networks. Can you check that your WiFi network is 2.4GHz and NOT 5GHz? You can check this in your router settings.
If that’s fine, try rebooting the box and re-attempt to connect.
The other thing to do is to check your AstroBox version. If it’s older than our images – it might be worth re-flashing with a newer image as a LAST RESORT.
*I am assuming that your WiFI dongle is the recommended Edimax one…
Does this help? https://astroprint.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/207866186-Can-I-configure-the-Raspberry-Pi-network-myself-
I just checked and you were right my is 5GHz. Does this mean that AstroBox is unavailable to me?
Well, the issue is due to that WiFi dongle not supporting 5GHz.
You can try creating a new WLAN on a new VLAN with 2.4Ghz, then your Astrobox should connect fine.
Hello Daniel, after performing this step how can we configure the wifi manually, this is only 1/2 the steps needed?
This is only to explain how you can set the AstroBox to not try to configure the wifi for you. You need to know how to do it on Linux.
We don’t recommend this way of configuring it and it’s not tested by us but we allow it if you know your way around linux or have special setup.
Maybe this helps: https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/configuration/wireless/wireless-cli.md