Wi-Fi on Pi3
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I am just confused about your solution of disabling apt-get and upgrade. I hope you mean run the commands not disable them.
I am going to agree with Meneer this looks like a power adaptor problem. Ensure that you are using a 5.1v 2500 MA or better power plug I suggest the cana kit ones.
The other sad possibility is that the wi-fi chip has been damaged on the board.
Do you have a case? The chip is located on the bottom of the board it and the bluetooth chip and as I have heard can be easily damaged without a case.Does your bluetooth work?
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No idea why I said disable. My bad. It was suggested that I do the apt-get update because the early drivers that were used are "rubbish."
Anyway, I'll check my power adapter. I'm just Using a micro usb cable plugged into a generic usb power brick. I also got a wifi adapter from a friend to test out.
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Seemily you geniuses were right :) I borrowed a friend's adapter (only 2.1) and it powered it just fine, and the apt-get upgrade is flying, and it's connecting to wireless (at least at work). I did buy my own adapter that will arrive tomorrow, so the real test will be whether it works at my house, but I have a good feeling about it. I'll report back, but I think this is good news!
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Well I might have lied. I bought a Cana kit power thing made for pi3 and it didnt fix the problem when I tried it at home. Seems like it must be my router or something that it can't connect at home.
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You just got to keep eliminating issues.
Swap the router,
Reset the router you have and reconfigure it.
Maybe disable security temporarily and see if it connects without security as a baseline. -
Precisely, looks like it doesn't like my router. I swapped my nice netgear with DD-WRT on it for a budget belkin and for whatever reason it worked just fine. That's a freakin' bummer as I liked my netgear.
Thanks for all the help, everyone!
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@tjans said:
Precisely, looks like it doesn't like my router. I swapped my nice netgear with DD-WRT on it for a budget belkin and for whatever reason it worked just fine. That's a freakin' bummer as I liked my netgear.
Thanks for all the help, everyone!
Thank you for starting the topic, I learned a lot from it. Do you have an Android phone w/ the app 'WiFi Analyser' on it? Try to measure the strength of your WiFi (real time, take a walk through your house!) and how many neighbors' signals are "in your house". Might give some insight.
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@Meneer-Jansen no problem.
I have an iPhone. Switching to android after my contract is up. I have an app for my PC I could use that does the same thing.
Ps. If Jansen is your last name, we share the same. :)
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Frustrating. Now it does t work with my new router. It almost has to be interference since it worked fine on my work's wifi network.
I don't have problems on any other device. I'm stumped.
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@tjans said:
@Meneer-Jansen no problem.
I have an iPhone. Switching to android after my contract is up. I have an app for my PC I could use that does the same thing.
Ps. If Jansen is your last name, we share the same. :)
Maybe the exact same same app has a version for iPhone too...
P.S. Jansen is a nick name. I am Dutch though... :-)
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