WiFi

[KE0FHS]

When Andy released 4.0.0, he mentioned that it was designed to work on all RPi models: "I even tested it on the Original Pi A (256MB RAM), it even works on that." As far as I have seen, he never said anything different about 4.1, so I'm guessing that it should work on all RPi boards, too. It's true that older boards will be slower, especially when booting up or when applying changes (I even get impatient with the Zero W doing those tasks), but for routine use and as long as you're patient, it seems that the older boards should work.

The B+ is still being sold by retailers like Adafruit and Element14, and it's surprisingly expensive at $30, so I guess it's still considered a useful board.

To narrow down whether the issue is related to Buster, it would be interesting to test Pi-Star 4.1 with the B+ board plugged directly into the network via an ethernet cable, and also to test it with a different WiFi dongle.

[KE0FHS]

But why would anyone spend 30 bucks on a RPi 1, when you can buy a 3 B+...

I agree. But if I already had one (I don't), I'd probably want to see if I could get it to work.

[w7efs]

Looking into Raspian Buster and using a wifi dongle it seems it is a known problem, may be a update will solve the problem.

I can't duplicate the problem here, John. Using an Edimax wifi dongle https://amazon.com/gp/product/B003MTTJOY/ on a

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$ cat /sys/firmware/devicetree/base/model
Raspberry Pi Model B Plus Rev 1.2

and Pi-Star:4.1.0-RC5 / Dashboard: 20190905, the wifi works flawlessly, switching easily between base, mobile and hangar SSIDs whenever needed.

An easy way to identify your wifi dongle is

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$ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 7392:7811 Edimax Technology Co., Ltd EW-7811Un 802.11n Wireless Adapter [Realtek RTL8188CUS]
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0424:ec00 Standard Microsystems Corp. SMSC9512/9514 Fast Ethernet Adapter
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0424:9514 Standard Microsystems Corp. SMC9514 Hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

[M1DNS]

But why would anyone spend 30 bucks on a RPi 1, when you can buy a 3 B+...

I agree. But if I already had one (I don't), I'd probably want to see if I could get it to work.

Just fer sh*ts n giggles I still have a original b model. I Use it with an old dvap when I need to shake the dust out of the dstar radios, Andy said it would work. jokingly I needed to check for myself. and it does, currently it's running rc4, I think. But it def.runing the new 4. With no issue.

Andrew M1DNS, (Mod)