When it comes to hooking up your Raspberry Pi to the Wireless LAN using a WiFi dongle, aka wireless USB, adapter, this post is all you'll ever need :
http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?p=151456#p151456
Who in the world is obcd anyway? Venerate him.
Long story short, all I had to do was change a couple of lines in my /etc/network/interfaces file from
wpa-ssid "name"
wpa-psd "pswd"
to
wireless-essid "name"
wireless-key "pswd"
And the damn thing just works - when I do ifconfig -a, I see a non-zero Rx and Tx bytes for wlan0!! This got my off my desk with my arms pumping. Who the heck is obcd? Why do we even allow the other idiots to post?
Shame on me though, when the Patriot RTL8188 was plugged in, it would periodically blink 6 times regularly. And, if I did
iwlist wlan0 scan
it clearly told me that my network was an ESSID. And, when I used windows to look at properties, it showed me it was WEP.
So, why was I doing WPA?
Coz I knew no better. That's why!
Technobabble is going to have to work very hard to catch up to this!
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