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tplink wifi dongle

Posted: Sun Nov 18, 2018 1:59 pm
by w8tfi
Hello Eveyone,
I have a tplink WiFi dongle and haven't been able to get it to work, I have built a mobile Pi-star so I can link it to my phone. I did read that I may have to install a driver for it. But the problem I have run into is I don't know how to install a driver through the Pi-star software, can someone guild me in the right direction on how this may be done.
Thank you for any and all help
Brian

Re: tplink wifi dongle

Posted: Sun Nov 18, 2018 3:00 pm
by AC8OB
It's possible that your WiFi dongle is not supported by the Linux kernel. Are you able to connect in to your hotspot locally, either be connecting a monitor and keyboard, or by connecting it to your network via ethernet then using secure shell?

Re: tplink wifi dongle

Posted: Sun Nov 18, 2018 3:03 pm
by AC8OB
I forgot to ask - have you built the wpa-supplicant.conf file and copied it to the memory card so it has details your your wifi SSID and password?