RatOS with WiFi dongle
Has anyone ever gotten a wifi dongle working with ratos running on a pi? I got a basic 802.11n dongle plugged in a pi2b with ratos2.0 32bit but it does not want to connect.
When using a fresh ratos install it does not create a wifi network.
any clues?
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You would have to modify the hotspot script as I believe it automatically uses wlan0 and most likely your wifi dongle is something else in the network interfaces
you would need to change https://github.com/Rat-OS/RatOS/blob/v2.x/src/modules/hotspot/filesystem/root/usr/bin/autohotspotN#L16 to whatever your interface name is. You might also need other changes, I'm not sure
ugly-tan•2y ago
And if my RatOS is already configured?
Would just need to change the running wifi adapter
Maybe i should just connect a display n stuff and change wifi config that way
That shouuuuuuuuuld work
That script is used to create either the hotspot or connect to the wifi
ugly-tan•2y ago
Ah oki
Yeah because my pi 4 died and i only have a 2b left^^
I have been working on alternative boards for ratos so that you don't have to run it on a raspberry pi
ugly-tan•2y ago
Yeah, I've seen the progress 🙂
Thanks for that!
Just that the alternatives also aren't that much cheaper these days😅
I just bought a orange pi 3 lts for $40 with shipping. That's a lot cheaper than a pi
ugly-tan•2y ago
Those are 100-130€ here
Ofc with importing it through Ali it's prolly gonna go to like 50
Still not great tho
(anyways, this problem is "fixed", i got another pi working 
first one seems to be just dead, amaxon accepted a return
first one seems to be just dead, amaxon accepted a return