Help with wifi issue

[TheStrayMongrel]

Hey People, Ive just installed RetroPie and am having some problems getting my RPi2 with wifi dongle to connect to the network. Seems to be working fine within Retropie when using the wifi utility within it but when i go to connect with either FileZilla or Cyberduck its times out. Im sure im using the right host username and passwords so dont imagine its that. Have also tried to ssh to the Pi via my mac laptop in the terminal and thats a no-go either. Is there something else i can try within Retro to test out the connection to see if its sound? Have also tried a number of reboots to make sure its not a stale connection or something like that.

Any help would be fantastic.

Thanks very much in advance.

[chavatar]

Hi. no expert but:

• Check dongle working: Retropie settings > IP address should show you the IP addess of your Pi2. I would also use ifconfig -a from the command line and look for the wlan0 entry - that's your wireless. Should confirm IP address - note this down.
• Assuming you have wireless, ensure login credentials are correct: pi // raspberry (default)
• Ensure the machine you are trying to login from has a connection (it's just possible that's the problem).
• Ensure you have adequate signal strength on all machines (you're not trying this in the garden are you? ;-))

It may be a DHCP lease issue - some other machine on your network sharing the same IP address. Try

sudo dhclient -r
sudo dhclient wlan0

at the command line and/or restart your router.
If this is the case (and even if it isn't) I'd advise giving your Pi a static IP address on your local network, saves a lot of hassle.

Finally, if you can ssh in, but can't use ftp, try port 22 (in Filezilla, that's wot I use)

Hope that helps!

[TheStrayMongrel]

@chavatar Thanks very much mate, got it sorted. Connection was all good was just using the wrong port number thinking it was meant to be same as the last two numbers in the IP address. Silly me.

Cheers for the help :)