@FlashFlood2864 That's good news. Your welcome. If you get any problems with your wifi connection in the near future, you can try changing the wifi channel in your Router's administration. Being on a wifi channel chosen by your Router is not always feasible and could decrease the wifi's signal if there are too many wifi network's using the same wifi channel. The Router might have a built-in wifi channel tester. :-)

@Otter22 The Wifi is not setup from Emulationstation, but via the RetroPie-Setup. You should have a WiFi menu entry in the RetroPie system in Emulationstation - just like it's described in the Docs.

it may be the problem of your router login panel ..you should reboot the router and then try again..

@ddoherty958 said in Wifi calamity: @simonster The strange thing is I'm not entirely sure. You can show your Pi's model and revision with this command: cat /proc/device-tree/model (Just trying to fill the forum with useful information. 😌 )

@melbmatt50 said in Retropie issues with WiFi setup and Scraper: Now during startup it asks for a login and password which I would rather it didn't so I want to disable that. It's enough to login once - after the upgrade - and re-configure auto-login using sudo raspi-config. Unfortunately that's part of Raspbian and it's not under RetroPie's control. See this topic for solutions to this problem. Secondly I got a 64gb sd card so I could load more stuff on it but etcher won't verify it after burning the image to it and I get the following message during installation on my raspberry pi 3 model b+ Kernel panic-not syncing: VFS: unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(179,2). If you can help me I would be grateful. Its a sandisk ultra 64gb class 10 card. The error seems to indicate badly/imcomplete written image. If the verification doesn't work, maybe the SD card is faulty ?

A little update about this situation. I've contacted my ISP and i can't seem to switch out the modem. They sent me some firmware updates, which also didn't help. The solution they offered me was, buying an external WiFi adapter or hookup a router to the modem. Both options are out of the question for me. But now something I can't put my head around. As said previously most of times i get speed under 1 Mbit/s, but as soon I transfer files over to the pi by SFTP i get much better speeds (atleast 5 Mbit/s stable). This proves there is nothing wrong with the signal or antenna in my case.

@mitu just had same problem and I know nothing thank you, never would have figured that out.

@mitu Note for WiFi on the new Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+: WiiFi is disabled until wireless regulatory domain is set (Pi 3 B+ only) The domain can be done through 'Raspberry Pi Configuration' (rc_gui), 'raspi-config' or by setting 'country=' to an appropriate ISO 3166 alpha2 country code in /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf. US= United States GB= UK Example by another user of what it should look like (with GB country code) country=GB ctrl_interface=DIR=/var/run/wpa_supplicant GROUP=netdev update_config=1 network={ ssid="myssid" psk="mywifipassword" }

@pjft MACs aren't my thing, I leave them to the GF and the young wan. Everyone I see talks about dd In fact I saw etcher get ripped to shreds on reddit by people criticising them for just over-complicating dd. Saying that, I do like a nice GUI and I have no issues with it. Straight into a zip? You could ask them to add it. They seem like they are willing to help.

@TheKrakenWakes Nope. Tended to use cabled LAN for the Pi2 and Pi3 I setup, but set up a zero over WiFi no problem.

@nickgash If there some special characters in your PW then try to hash the password. Read here ... HowTo

@smiler79 It shouldn't be. Is the PSU ~2.5Amps? Is it a hardwired dedicated PSU or a plug and USB cable combo? Some USB cables just cannot transfer enough power as they are designed for phones and tablets that draw a lot less juice.

@nwgalloway nope. Not until an on-screen keyboard is integrated This is the only solution in the interim. https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/Wifi#method-2-connecting-to-wifi-without-a-keyboard

@herb_fargus I forgot about that herb. Think I set my Zero up before this was implemented.

@neobium Please use the @+name-sign or click on reply so the user you might want to talk is mentioned. If the WIFI IP is the one you've setted in the config and you can't connect to the Pie via WIFI then your security key (=WLAN Password, WPA passphrase.... ) might be wrong. Please check this first. To varify use CLI and use ping command ping your router first ping 192.168.1.1 or via router hostname ping myrouter.ip ctrl+c stops ping command! or you can try wget command to download some files wget http://www.retropie.org.uk/ you will get index.html from retropie Or are you behind a company proxy and want to play some games while in work? ;) Or is your subnet mask the right one? Is your router setted to only pass trusted devices? Are you able to optain a connection via DHCP? if yes then use the method @hansolo77 and myself explained. Change the hostname with raspi-config and you can use any IP you want .

Instead oft using standard Charakters you can try to hash the key. So the key will be transformed to a HEX string that contains only Charakters from 0 to 9 and A to F Im still on vacation ;D

i figured it out- By default the default localization options were set for England. I changed it for UTF 8 and all is well now. I checked my wpa-supplicant.conf and saw a foreign symbol in place of my #. problem solved.