Raspberry Pi WLAN setup

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Post by DoubleMalt » Sat, Nov 24, 2018, 2:15 PM UTC

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Post by blensor » Sat, Nov 24, 2018, 3:20 PM UTC

That is something that seems really useful. You can get your Raspberry Pi online without a minitor but it's always a bit like stumbling in the dark.

I'll definitely give this a try.

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Post by tdewitt » Sat, Nov 24, 2018, 3:26 PM UTC

I have half a dozen Pis to reimage right now, so this is timely. Can't wait to give it a shot today.

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Post by yjftsjthsd-h » Sat, Nov 24, 2018, 3:31 PM UTC

So GUI and displaying the IP at the end is nice. But. I do wonder: If you already have to write a special image, why not just write the network config directly to wpa_supplicant.conf?

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Post by swinglock » Sat, Nov 24, 2018, 3:32 PM UTC

That looks useful. Does it delete itself and the extra repo configuration after setup? If not, while convenient I'm not convinced the increased attack surface is worth it.

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Post by noja » Sat, Nov 24, 2018, 3:37 PM UTC

or create /boot/wpa_supplicant.conf and touch /boot/ssh and it will do the right thing on boot.

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Post by orblivion » Sat, Nov 24, 2018, 3:41 PM UTC

I'm confused by the Bluetooth logo.

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Post by matthewmacleod » Sat, Nov 24, 2018, 3:44 PM UTC

That’s cool, and the UI is nice!

I wrote exactly the same thing as a library, to allow user setup of the WiFi network from within an app as part of a hardware prototype - main difference being it was just a Go daemon running on the Pi. Didn’t end up using it or open-sourcing it but I will re-visit that, since it looks like there are a couple of use-cases.

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Post by Uehreka » Sat, Nov 24, 2018, 3:44 PM UTC

noja wrote: post #6

or create /boot/wpa_supplicant.conf and touch /boot/ssh and it will do the right thing on boot.

Can you seriously put wpa_supplicant.conf in /boot and it’ll work? I have honestly never heard this in 2 years of doing Raspberry Pi, after looking at tons of documentation and web sites. This wouldn’t surprise me, but I feel like it should be much better documented, given that it’s pretty much the first and biggest hurdle to getting things to work on a new image.

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Post by noja » Sat, Nov 24, 2018, 3:45 PM UTC

Uehreka wrote: post #9

noja wrote: post #6

or create /boot/wpa_supplicant.conf and touch /boot/ssh and it will do the right thing on boot.

Can you seriously put wpa_supplicant.conf in /boot and it’ll work? I have honestly never heard this in 2 years of doing Raspberry Pi, after looking at tons of documentation and web sites. This wouldn’t surprise me, but I feel like it should be much better documented, given that it’s pretty much the first and biggest hurdle to getting things to work on a new image.

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