RealTec WiFi and Connection manager (Bug #171)
Description
Tried the compact USB Realtek RTL8188CUS WiFi Adapter. The proved to be a problem with the BBB provided Connection Manager.
- iwlist wlanO scan
returned something like the "interface does not support scanning"
Having a Ubuntu installation on a laptop, a test of the RTL8188CUS thereon was problem free. So with an ethernet CONNECT on the BBB - apt-get install network-manager-gnome
sufficed to replace the Connection Manager, and all was OK with WiFi thereafter. The price is that network-manager-gnome does have several Dependent packages.deb which co-install. Later another solution was accidentally searched out:
http://dumb-looks-free.blogspot.com/2014/05/beaglebone-black-bbb-with-realtek.html
History
Updated by Marvin Stodolsky about 1 year ago
The true problem concerns boot setup as already reported in:
rfkill turns all radios off after boot, regardless of setting before rebooting (Bug #163)
To overcome manually if sufficed to:
$sudo iwconfig
which provided the wifi Channel name, herein just called: wifi
$ sudo rfkill list
$ sudo rfkill unblock 0 (may be different number on your System)
$ sudo ifconfig wifi up
brough wireless function up