Hello,
I've been using my Pogo for a variety of things over the years (asterisk, zoneminder, mythbackend, etc.), but finally got a real home server for the majority of those things. Still want to get some use out of my Pogo though, so decided to configure it as an internet radio, which is what I did with the Pogo's predecessor, my Slug, which worked well. Anyway, the Pogo will be in another room, so I needed WiFi. I'm pretty clumsy with Linux, but I managed to get it working, almost correctly, but not quite. The WiFi is one of those Raspberry Pi Edimax mini dongles, and I'm using MPD for the stream. I've got a static IP with WPA2 (forget which variety) security. If I boot it and it connects, it works perfectly. It's solid as a rock and I can stream for hours without an issue (i.e. the basic config is OK and the connection is strong). The problem is with the "if it connects", because 1/3rd of the time (or more), it will not connect. The dongle light comes on, and it's running, but I don't get an IP address. Anyone have a better idea of what happens during that connect process and what could be happening that prevents it from "catching"? Sounds like some kind of a timing issue to me.
Really bothersome, because sometimes I will have to restart it 8 or 9 times before it works.
I thought one solution would be to do ifdown, ifup after boot if it's not connected, and I found a script that does just that (checks for IP address, then down-ups if not present), but that doesn't do it either. The behavior is: if it connects at startup, it works great for hours. But it doesn't connect 70% of the time.
Anyway, probably not enough info for someone to help, but I thought it might ring some bells for someone. Thanks in advance if so.
I've been using my Pogo for a variety of things over the years (asterisk, zoneminder, mythbackend, etc.), but finally got a real home server for the majority of those things. Still want to get some use out of my Pogo though, so decided to configure it as an internet radio, which is what I did with the Pogo's predecessor, my Slug, which worked well. Anyway, the Pogo will be in another room, so I needed WiFi. I'm pretty clumsy with Linux, but I managed to get it working, almost correctly, but not quite. The WiFi is one of those Raspberry Pi Edimax mini dongles, and I'm using MPD for the stream. I've got a static IP with WPA2 (forget which variety) security. If I boot it and it connects, it works perfectly. It's solid as a rock and I can stream for hours without an issue (i.e. the basic config is OK and the connection is strong). The problem is with the "if it connects", because 1/3rd of the time (or more), it will not connect. The dongle light comes on, and it's running, but I don't get an IP address. Anyone have a better idea of what happens during that connect process and what could be happening that prevents it from "catching"? Sounds like some kind of a timing issue to me.
Really bothersome, because sometimes I will have to restart it 8 or 9 times before it works.
I thought one solution would be to do ifdown, ifup after boot if it's not connected, and I found a script that does just that (checks for IP address, then down-ups if not present), but that doesn't do it either. The behavior is: if it connects at startup, it works great for hours. But it doesn't connect 70% of the time.
Anyway, probably not enough info for someone to help, but I thought it might ring some bells for someone. Thanks in advance if so.