Connecting Bela to wifi

We tested Bela with the NETGEAR A6100-100PES AC600 802.11AC wifi dongle. Here are the steps we followed.

• To connect your wifi USB dongle, run

$ lsusb

on the board to make sure it shows up correctly. If it does not, reboot your device. If you have an old Bela image (before v0.1) and want to use the NETGEAR A6100-100PES AC600, then first follow the steps below for driver installation. Otherwise, just go through the Network setup.

###Network setup

1. Edit the /etc/network/interfaces

#WiFi Example
 auto wlan0
 iface wlan0 inet dhcp
     wpa-ssid "yourNetworkName"
     wpa-psk  "yourNetworkPassword"

2. Run the following:

$ /etc/init.d/networking restart

3. Verify your settings are correct by running:

$ ifconfig wlan0

This checks that your device is working and has an IP address.

###Driver setup Note: These steps are not required if you have a Bela image v0.1 or above. We are maintaining it here for reference. Be careful with these steps - if not done correctly, you will not be able to ssh into the board.

1. Download the pre-compiled archive containing the drivers and uncompress it on your BeagleBone:

$ tar -xvf rtl8812AU-bela.tar && cd rtl8812AU-bela && make install

2. Enable the driver module:

$ modprobe 8812au

3. Add the following line at the bottom of the /etc/ssh/sshd_config file:

UseDNS no