Pi Aware on Pi 2B - issues

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I am attempting to set up Pi-Aware on a Pi 2B. I downloaded the Pi Aware 3.8.1 image from the site.

I am using a CanaKit Wifi USB adapter, but when it boots, the page says “wlan0 DOWN” and when I use the command line to set it “up”, the status doesn’t change. How do I get it to recognize the wifi adapter and connect to my network? I edited the piaware config file to set Wireless to ON and input the SSID and password.

2nd question–can I boot it to the standard R-Pi GUI, or will it only boot to the command prompt/ Pi-Aware status page?

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Doublecheck your SSID and password. Reboot afterwards.

The sdcard image is designed to be headless and does not include the usual desktop package (it is, essentially, Raspbian Lite + customization).

You can, in theory, install the desktop packages on top of a piaware sdcard image. But if you want a multipurpose Pi install then a better plan is probably to install a full Raspbian desktop sdcard image and then install dump1090-fa and piaware via a package install. The piaware sdcard image generally assumes that you don’t want to heavily customize the image (e.g. you will find that it wants to regenerate config files automatically)

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Thanks! Turns out I had one letter in my SSID lower case that should have been upper case. All works now!

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