Enabling the wireless in a PogoPlug Pro

[Geoff]

I spent a day or so trying to get netcfg to work with the wireless card. I came to the conclusion that while it just might be possible to make it work with an open network, anything more complicated just wasn't going to work. I use a "hidden" WPA (PSK) wireless network, and I couldn't get that to work for two reasons: (1) if you have a hidden network, netcfg requires (without warning you) that you must tell it anyway the ap (bssid) of the hidden network, but even if you do this, the bash-script function that detects the hidden network is broken (easy enough to fix, though); and (2) Netcfg uses wpa_supplicant, and the latter looks for a driver "nl80211" that doesn't exist, so netcfg won't associate the card with the wireless network. I tried also to set up an ad-hoc network with the Pogoplug as a gateway, and I ran into the problem that while it just might be possible to connect into an pre-existing ad-hoc network, netcfg will not allow to set up the first node. In the end, I just went back to setting up my ethernet and wireless interfaces as in my previous post (just changing the blacklisting method as above), and all is well again, connecting just fine to my hidden wireless WPA (PSK) network.

[mcsSolutions]

I have tried the three links referenced for the PogoPlug Pro WiFi drivers in this thread and all appear dead. Is there another source?

[WarheadsSE]

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/s ... google.com

Then I'll have to just dig out the instructions on where the files you need are.

[mcsSolutions]

I have found at download DPO_RT3390_LinuxSTA_V2.4.0.1_20100831.tar.bz2 which I think is for the PogoPlug Pro hadrware WiFi, but dont know what needs to be done. There is a Makefile which I think implies that toolchain would be needed. I had the impression that binaries are available, but have not found them or install instructions. The google cache contains an active link for a screenshot on configuring once it is installed, the other links are either null or to top level pages.

[WarheadsSE]

On page 2, there is a pretty comprehensive answer.

[mcsSolutions]

I have tried the page 2 instructions that I agree are very good, but have had no success with the creation/recognition of the ra0 interface. I even rebuilt the driver files from the source with no success. When I issue "ifconfig ra0 up" I receive ra0: unknown interface: No such device. iwpriv lists only lo and eth0. I have made the edits in rc.conf for MODULES and networking elements. I did not auto-start the wireless_setup script since I did not have success from the command line. I have rebooted. What is the secret to getting it to recognize ra0?

[mcsSolutions]

Got is WiFi going by unzipping tar on the PogoPlug rather than moving the unzipped files using WinSCP. When the source was compiled the resultant .ko file was a little under 1M and modprobe identified it as an invalid module.

[Alf]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mcsSolutions', '.'). but have had no success with the creation/recognition of the ra0 interface..

[WarheadsSE]

People, please read up on multiple network connections, routes, etc.

[alasrati]

Hello

None of the download links to pro-wirless.tar.gz seem to be working.

I would really appreciate either a working link or a guide on how to make whatever was contained in pro-wirless.tar.gz.

Many thanks