A new release on this cold day. Not a big release, but a feature that has been asked for multiple times: support for USB wifi dongles!
For now this only works with the Realtek chipset (the @allo.com Wifi dongle is one of them), but I’ll add more when it comes to it.
This is all auto-detect, so you basically only need to configure it in the webpage. If a dongle is detected on a Pi 3 with internal wifi, the dongle is being selected.
Furthermore it contains a fix for wifi when using special characters in a WPA passphrase (@G_P).
Harry, I seemed to have lost wireless capability with this release. I have tried re-flashing (using a prior downloaded image, as I can’t seem to get Etcher to make new images), and after turning wireless on the SSID disappears.
It can’t discover your network.
Just to be sure: you’re using the on-board wifi right?
And have you tried completing the sequence first? So save it in the situation above, then go back to the network tab and check again?
Yeah. It goes wrong when you insert an external dongle.
It tries to figure out which one you’re running, and blacklists the other one.
But if you ran the script twice (what happens during the config step), it blacklists the wrong one.
I guess I need to change my test procedure. I always skip the reboot when I’m configuring wireless
