WIFI issues

rasp_renegade

Hi guys, I am so upset that I have lost many hours of configurations on my Piv3. I am not sure what the best options are, but I need to SSH to my backup image to try to copy files, vs anything drastic.

I tried to disable IPv6 as seen here, but everything listed produces no results:

https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=138899
https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=138899

And, when going through the GUI under the WIFI section, the Pi will not connect to the WIFI network.

What frustrates me is that I configured the, now, bad image with no problem, but now I am stumped trying to do it again

Please any pointer will do. This forum is super helpful, so I have high confidence.

I am unable to send any configs to you all since there is no network.

mitu

@rasp_renegade Are you sure you didn't disable the Wifi through rfkill ? Run sudo rfkill unblock all and try to connect to Wifi again. Are you using a Wifi dongle or do you have a Raspberry Pi 3 model with built-in Wifi ?

rasp_renegade

Thanks for the reply @mitu

The output is
sudo: UNable to resolve host MiPi2
sudo: rfkill command not found

Apologies for not stating this is onboard WIFI. Ifconfig shows an IPv6 address, so you would think it was working.

rasp_renegade

@rasp_renegade

Also, to simplify things I moved closer to my router so also have a wired connection. That is jacked up too since I cannot ping the default gateway

mitu

@rasp_renegade said in WIFI issues:

sudo: UNable to resolve host MiPi2

That's not encouraging. Did you modify the /etc/hosts file ? What does ifconfig shows ?

rasp_renegade

@mitu said in WIFI issues:

@rasp_renegade said in WIFI issues:

sudo: UNable to resolve host MiPi2

That's not encouraging. Did you modify the /etc/hosts file ? What does ifconfig shows ?

Not encouraging indeed!!
the hosts file is empty

IFCONFIG
"lo" only shows the loopback address 127.0.0.1 with mask of 255.0.0.0
455 errors
no MAC address is shown

"wlan0" previously displayed two iPv6 entries, but I must have gotten rid of it with the reference posts above.
700 errors
MAC address is displayed

mitu

@rasp_renegade said in WIFI issues:

the hosts file is empty

It shouldn't be. Add the following to the file (assuming your hostname is mipi2.

127.0.0.1	localhost
::1		localhost ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
ff02::1		ip6-allnodes
ff02::2		ip6-allrouters

127.0.1.1	mipi2

Normally you'd use sudo nano /etc/hosts to edit the file, if that doesn't work, try sudo su and then name /etc/hosts.

rasp_renegade

It looks like that now. Strange it had the very first hostname of MiPi, eventhough the outputs suggested the name I gave it "MiPi2".

I can ping 127.0.0.1 if that helps.

IFCONFIG shows less errors now, but still not able to ping the gateway

Actually, I should mention that the Pi can see all SSIDs that are broadcasting (including my own). Just to eliminate assumptions, I did verify I have the correct network key by connecting from another device.

mitu

@rasp_renegade Try looking for errors in the WiFi service:

sudo systemctl status wpa_supplicant
dmesg | tail -n 20

Ideally you should try reverting the changes you made for disabling IPv6, maybe inadvertently you disabled something else also.

rasp_renegade

@mitu said in WIFI issues:

@rasp_renegade Try looking for errors in the WiFi service:
sudo systemctl status wpa_supplicant
dmesg | tail -n 20
Ideally you should try reverting the changes you made for disabling IPv6, maybe inadvertently you disabled something else also.

Here is the output:
sudo: unable to resolve host MiPi02

-wpa_supplicant .service - WPA supplicant
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/wpa_supplicant.services: disabled)
Active: inactive (dead)

--dmesg.service
Loaded: not-found (Reason: No such file or directory)
Active: inactive (dead)

As far as reverting , this file is back to where it was - etc/modprobe.d/ipv6.conf

Unless I was in the wrong place before, cmdline.txt loks different, only has a single line.

Is there a way to reset all connections to default?

mitu

@rasp_renegade said in WIFI issues:

Is there a way to reset all connections to default?

Edit the /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf file and remove the contents related to your WiFi SSID. Edit /etc/network/interfaces and remove the stanzas related to wlan0.

sudo: unable to resolve host MiPi02

sudo not working seems still be a problem. If your /etc/hosts has the correct entries, check /etc/hostname and make sure the hostname is correctly set there. If it's not, try setting it using hostnamectl (you'll need root permissions to do that).

rasp_renegade

@mitu said in WIFI issues:

@rasp_renegade said in WIFI issues:

Is there a way to reset all connections to default?

Edit the /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf file and remove the contents related to your WiFi SSID. Edit /etc/network/interfaces and remove the stanzas related to wlan0.

sudo: unable to resolve host MiPi02

sudo not working seems still be a problem. If your /etc/hosts has the correct entries, check /etc/hostname and make sure the hostname is correctly set there. If it's not, try setting it using hostnamectl (you'll need root permissions to do that).

You will have a good laugh at this... in the hosts file I had MiPi02, in the hostname file I had MiPi2. LOL

Pinging MiPi02 now resolves to the loopback address. I can no longer see my WIFI network from the GUI of RetroPie now though. So be it.

I am going to try to manually copy all info from the files listed in the quote above, from the good image into this one. This should work yes?

rasp_renegade

@mitu

You forgot to ask me an important question, "Is there a copy of that image?"

The answer is yes!!! I am now back in business. This time I will pay close attention to what the heck I am changing. This was a great learning opportunity, however, so thank you very much for your support. =)

I have two cards for the sake of clustering, in case you were wondering.