Unable to get WiFi working.

[Titanium]

Titanium

2. März 2025 at 21:38 #53286

Environment:
Version 2.62
Raspberry PI 3

My max2play setup has used the same wifi dongle for YEARs, but now I can not get the wlan0 to start/created.

My problems started when I manually entered an SSID for a 5G SSID (trying to resolve airplay latency). After that, I’ve never seen wlan0 start up.

Here’s the debug log:
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr b8:27:eb:e9:54:b3
inet addr:192.168.1.127 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:187 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:294 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:23541 (22.9 KiB) TX bytes:82236 (80.3 KiB)

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:65536 Metric:1
RX packets:9 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:9 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:606 (606.0 B) TX bytes:606 (606.0 B)

### WLAN ###

Obviously there’s nothinhg on the wlan0…

I suspected that maybe the wifi dongle just broke, but I tested it in a LINUX/Ubuntu laptop and it worked fine.

The status on the wifi UI shows: Status: WiFi USB adapter status is not active. WiFi connection status is not active
(Only WPA/WPA2-Encryption possible)

Which is confirming the wlan0 is not created.

I’ve tried several different USB ports with the wifi dongle, but no luck.

I’ve tried booting the unit without the wifi dongle, hoping the internal wifi would work… it didn’t.

Fortunately the LAN port is working but keeping the network wire running across the room does not pass the wife test.

Any help with this is appreciated. At this point I am at a loss for next steps. Right now I have access to both the web UI and command line interface (ssh)…

Thanks,

• This topic was modified 1 month ago by Titanium.