Astroberry network problem

[Stuart1971]

7 minutes ago, trailer said:

Looking for a bit of help with this dongle if I may. I have installed the drivers and it is coming up as wlan1 - typing 'iw dev' gives this correctly. I have created the network option similar to the one with the in built wifi device apart from choosing the wi-fi device as wlan1 as opposed to wlan0. However, it will not connect to any wi-fi, with 100 priority and even if I disable the in built wi-fi. I'm obviously doing something wrong but I can't figure out what it is. Grateful for any assistance please!! (RPi4 - Astroberry)

So you have it all installed....and do you see both the Wlan1 and Wlan0 and all the available networks under each of the two connections....

If so, then you should be able to connect Wlan1 which is your new dongle, to the network of your choice from the list of available, this is how I have mine set up, I also keep the internal disconnected...

[teoria_del_big_bang]

Ah I see Stuart has replied before I powered my RPi up.

I will add what I can and see if it helps.

If you right click on your WiFi icon and then select Edit Connections you can check things are set up correctly there.
I will show you mine in case it helps. I have forced mine to be a static IP address so I know what to connect to each time if using Teamviewer or whatever remote connection program.

 

    

 

If you select "Connection Information" instead of "Edit Connection" then you should see information about your Astroberry hotspot and hopefully a secondary connection that is your usb dongle 

    

 

I think one thing I missed to begin with was making sure in Wi-Fi tab of the settings that wlan1 is selected which should be your USB dongle.

Steve

 

[trailer]

56 minutes ago, Stuart1971 said:

So you have it all installed....and do you see both the Wlan1 and Wlan0 and all the available networks under each of the two connections....

If so, then you should be able to connect Wlan1 which is your new dongle, to the network of your choice from the list of available, this is how I have mine set up, I also keep the internal disconnected...

Firstly,  many thanks Stuart for your assistance.

Well, this is a bit embarrassing. I had the SSID for the network typed incorrectly............ apologies for wasting your time!!!!

All up and running with the dongle now and the in built disconnected. As an aside iw dev lists that the txpower on the in-built is 31dbm but on the dongle it is 12dbm?

[trailer]

31 minutes ago, teoria_del_big_bang said:

Ah I see Stuart has replied before I powered my RPi up.

I will add what I can and see if it helps.

If you right click on your WiFi icon and then select Edit Connections you can check things are set up correctly there.
I will show you mine in case it helps. I have forced mine to be a static IP address so I know what to connect to each time if using Teamviewer or whatever remote connection program.

 

    

 

If you select "Connection Information" instead of "Edit Connection" then you should see information about your Astroberry hotspot and hopefully a secondary connection that is your usb dongle 

    

 

I think one thing I missed to begin with was making sure in Wi-Fi tab of the settings that wlan1 is selected which should be your USB dongle.

Steve

 

And thanks for your time too Steve. Much obliged and is all very useful to confirm everything is OK. Cheers.

[teoria_del_big_bang]

No worries glad its up and running and I hope it improves the connection reliability.

Steve

[blameTECHIE]

Hope nobody minds, but I ended up with a wifi dongle that was RealTek driver based and no native support.

Thought I'd just add a note for anyone that comes across this post but is like me and completely ignorant to RPI/Linux.

Won't guarantee it will work for all, but I followed the first accepted answer on this page and it failed on the driver 'make', but the second accepted answer worked brilliantly and seemed a lot more streamlined in the approach, this is section that starts "The best and easiest way to handle this problem is as following"