I have had my ADS-B running for nearly two years in a first floor closet in a two story home connected to a hardwired router.
I’d like to make it WiFi so I purchased a Edimax USB N150.
Here is my stupid question: Is the software on the Raspberry Pi going to recognize the N150 usb automatically (Plug and Play?)
The Edimax wifi dongle drivers are in the PiAware image.
All you need to do is plug in the USB wifi dongle and then update your piaware config file with your wifi information.
Just turn set wifi-networking to yes and then update the SSID and password fields.
You don’t have to turn off the wired networking.
You can have both wired and wireless connected at the same time and piaware will fall back on the other if one connection is lost.
Also, If a wifi dongle driver is not included we are open to adding them in if drivers are available.
Thanks for the detailed response. I used your info and I think my router is the issue now. It requires WPA2-PSK [AES] and I do not think the PiAware is capable of that.
The piaware sdcard image will generate a wpa_supplicant config with
key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
psk="the passphrase"
which according to the wpa_supplicant docs (as far as I can see) should support WPA2-PSK + AES:
proto: list of accepted protocols
WPA = WPA/IEEE 802.11i/D3.0
# RSN = WPA2/IEEE 802.11i (also WPA2 can be used as an alias for RSN)
If not set, this defaults to: WPA RSN
key_mgmt: list of accepted authenticated key management protocols
WPA-PSK = WPA pre-shared key (this requires ‘psk’ field)
pairwise: list of accepted pairwise (unicast) ciphers for WPA
CCMP = AES in Counter mode with CBC-MAC [RFC 3610, IEEE 802.11i/D7.0]
TKIP = Temporal Key Integrity Protocol [IEEE 802.11i/D7.0]
NONE = Use only Group Keys (deprecated, should not be included if APs support
pairwise keys)
If not set, this defaults to: CCMP TKIP
group: list of accepted group (broadcast/multicast) ciphers for WPA
CCMP = AES in Counter mode with CBC-MAC [RFC 3610, IEEE 802.11i/D7.0]
TKIP = Temporal Key Integrity Protocol [IEEE 802.11i/D7.0]
WEP104 = WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy) with 104-bit key
WEP40 = WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy) with 40-bit key [IEEE 802.11]
If not set, this defaults to: CCMP TKIP WEP104 WEP40