Trying to configure Wi-Fi and Ethernet on a headless Pi Model B ran the following to get what I think is the correct version of the Wi-Fi dongle driver
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get autoremove
sudo reboot
sudo apt-get rpi-update
uname -a
Linux ospi 4.1.13+ #826 PREEMPT Fri Nov 13 20:13:22 GMT 2015 armv6l GNU/Linux
lsusb shows
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 148f:7601 Ralink Technology, Corp.
lsmod shows
Module Size Used by
rtc_ds1307 10383 0
i2c_dev 6730 0
snd_bcm2835 22317 0
snd_pcm 92581 1 snd_bcm2835
snd_seq 61957 0
snd_seq_device 5130 1 snd_seq
snd_timer 23454 2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd 68161 5 snd_bcm2835,snd_timer,snd_pcm,snd_seq,snd_seq_device
mt7601u 87685 0
mac80211 622304 1 mt7601u
cfg80211 499834 2 mac80211,mt7601u
rfkill 22491 1 cfg80211
i2c_bcm2708 6252 0
bcm2835_gpiomem 3703 0
uio_pdrv_genirq 3690 0
uio 10002 1 uio_pdrv_genirq
/etc/network/interfaces contains
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
iface eth0 inet static
address 192.168.1.11
netmask 255.255.255.0
gateway 192.168.1.1
network 192.168.1.0
metric 1
auto wlan0
iface wlan0 inet static
address 192.168.1.12
netmask 255.255.255.0
gateway 192.168.1.1
network 192.168.1.0
wpa-conf /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
metric 2
wpa_supplicant.conf contains
ctrl_interface=DIR=/var/run/wpa_supplicant GROUP=netdev
update_config=1
network={
ssid="XXXXXXX"
psk="********"
}
ifconfig shows
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr b8:27:eb:fb:4b:ca
inet addr:192.168.1.11 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:1794 errors:0 dropped:1 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:486 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:115957 (113.2 KiB) TX bytes:79567 (77.7 KiB)
iwconfig shows
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
sudo ifup wlan0 produces
wpa_supplicant: /sbin/wpa_supplicant daemon failed to start
run-parts: /etc/network/if-pre-up.d/wpasupplicant exited with return code 1
Cannot find device "wlan0"
Failed to bring up wlan0.
Any help on where to start looking would be greatly appreciated.
ifconfig -aand readman ifconfigto understand the difference (also note the disclaimer there, "This program is obsolete!"). – goldilocks Apr 07 '16 at 12:15