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WiFi not connecting

 

I am having difficulty obtaining a WiFi connection to my SHARI unit. I've followed the online prompts to add a WiFi source (my mobile hotspot) yet when disconnecting the LAN and rebooting the SHARI unit, there is no internet connection. The WiFi capability is enabled within the software. The software verifies wpa supplicant is the mobile hotspot username and passcode. When I reconnect with the LAN, it works as it should. Then dropping the LAN and repowering the SHARI results with no internet connection. Any thoughts how to resolve this?

Dick N9EEE
 

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Dick,

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I had an issue with my iphone. It didn’t like the name of my phone (Rich;s iphone). When I changed it to Richs iphone it worked as should..

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Rich

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From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of N9EEE - Dick
Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2024 10:28 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [SHARI] WiFi not connecting

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I am having difficulty obtaining a WiFi connection to my SHARI unit. I've followed the online prompts to add a WiFi source (my mobile hotspot) yet when disconnecting the LAN and rebooting the SHARI unit, there is no internet connection. The WiFi capability is enabled within the software. The software verifies wpa supplicant is the mobile hotspot username and passcode. When I reconnect with the LAN, it works as it should. Then dropping the LAN and repowering the SHARI results with no internet connection. Any thoughts how to resolve this?

Dick N9EEE

 

Look for apostrophe's in the wifi name especially if you are trying to connect to an iPhone or iPad. You need to take them out.?
 

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Dick:

A few questions.

What is providing your mobile hotspot? Is it a smartphone or a dedicated device?

If a smartphone, is it an iPhone?

In order to establish a connection from another device to an iPhone, the hotspot screen must be active while the connection is being made.

If you are using any Raspberry Pi other than a 3 model B Plus, 4 or 400 (technically the 5 as well, but HamVoIP still isn't running on that yet), make sure your mobile hotspot is actually putting out a 2.4gHz SSID, otherwise the Pi won't find it.

Starting with the iPhone 11, there is a checkbox in "personal Hotspot" to enable compatibility mode, which forces the phone to use 2.4gHz instead of 5gHz for it's hosted hotspot.
Another consideration is special characters in the SSID. If your hotspot name is, for example, Dick's iPhone, you may run into problems connecting. This has come up several times in a few different places.
If the hotspot is an iPhone, and your SSID contains an apostrophe, the apostrophe character isn't actually an apostrophe, but an odd unicode character. In this case, the easiest fix is to just change the name of the phone, which changes the hotspot SSID, to one that doesn't include that character.

73
N2DYI

On 6/27/2024 10:28 AM, N9EEE - Dick via groups.io wrote:

I am having difficulty obtaining a WiFi connection to my SHARI unit. I've followed the online prompts to add a WiFi source (my mobile hotspot) yet when disconnecting the LAN and rebooting the SHARI unit, there is no internet connection. The WiFi capability is enabled within the software. The software verifies wpa supplicant is the mobile hotspot username and passcode. When I reconnect with the LAN, it works as it should. Then dropping the LAN and repowering the SHARI results with no internet connection. Any thoughts how to resolve this?

Dick N9EEE

 

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Pi-Star has issues with special characters in the password.

Seems it's best not to use special characters in your SSID and passwords.
Unix/Linux has escape codes to quote them properly.

On 2024-06-27 23:25, WA2ZPX wrote:

Dick,

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I had an issue with my iphone. It didn’t like the name of my phone (Rich;s iphone). When I changed it to Richs iphone it worked as should..

?

Rich

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From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of N9EEE - Dick
Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2024 10:28 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [SHARI] WiFi not connecting

?

I am having difficulty obtaining a WiFi connection to my SHARI unit. I've followed the online prompts to add a WiFi source (my mobile hotspot) yet when disconnecting the LAN and rebooting the SHARI unit, there is no internet connection. The WiFi capability is enabled within the software. The software verifies wpa supplicant is the mobile hotspot username and passcode. When I reconnect with the LAN, it works as it should. Then dropping the LAN and repowering the SHARI results with no internet connection. Any thoughts how to resolve this?

Dick N9EEE


 

Make sure you enabled the wireless in your Node. SSH into your node. Select Menu 7. Select #2 Control Status of Wireless Interface. In the next screen select #1 Enable Wireless Device.? (wlan0) Once you do that then reboot the Node and it should come up on the wireless. It should have a different IP Address given by your Hotspot.
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On 06/27/2024 10:28 AM EDT N9EEE - Dick <dick.strassburger@...> wrote:
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I am having difficulty obtaining a WiFi connection to my SHARI unit. I've followed the online prompts to add a WiFi source (my mobile hotspot) yet when disconnecting the LAN and rebooting the SHARI unit, there is no internet connection. The WiFi capability is enabled within the software. The software verifies wpa supplicant is the mobile hotspot username and passcode. When I reconnect with the LAN, it works as it should. Then dropping the LAN and repowering the SHARI results with no internet connection. Any thoughts how to resolve this?

Dick N9EEE

 

Thanks Scott. Good suggestion. Not an issue here though. My SSID is Dixphone which I did more for fun than any practicality.
Dick N9EEE

On Thu, Jun 27, 2024 at 10:55?PM Scott, KB3JQQ via <kb3jqq=[email protected]> wrote:
Pi-Star has issues with special characters in the password.

Seems it's best not to use special characters in your SSID and passwords.
Unix/Linux has escape codes to quote them properly.

On 2024-06-27 23:25, WA2ZPX wrote:

Dick,

?

I had an issue with my iphone. It didn’t like the name of my phone (Rich;s iphone). When I changed it to Richs iphone it worked as should..

?

Rich

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From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of N9EEE - Dick
Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2024 10:28 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [SHARI] WiFi not connecting

?

I am having difficulty obtaining a WiFi connection to my SHARI unit. I've followed the online prompts to add a WiFi source (my mobile hotspot) yet when disconnecting the LAN and rebooting the SHARI unit, there is no internet connection. The WiFi capability is enabled within the software. The software verifies wpa supplicant is the mobile hotspot username and passcode. When I reconnect with the LAN, it works as it should. Then dropping the LAN and repowering the SHARI results with no internet connection. Any thoughts how to resolve this?

Dick N9EEE




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Dick Strassburger
 

So I don't know which suggestion worked but collectively they worked:? (Wifi was enabled but I toggled it anyway / there were no apostrophes in my SSID / I enabled Maximum Compatibility in my iPhone / I toggled my hotspot on/off/on / I re-input the SSID and Passcode?/ I disconnected and re-powered a couple of times but the one time I made sure the iPhone screen was active...it all came together and worked. I've successfully connected to another node via my SHARI using my mobile hotspot.

Thank you to all who made suggestions. They were valued. This has been an ongoing problem and it was suggested I join this braintrust...which I did yesterday and you didn't fail. You nailed it.?

Thank you,
Dick N9EEE

On Thu, Jun 27, 2024 at 10:41?PM Patrick Perdue via <borrisinabox=[email protected]> wrote:

Dick:

A few questions.

What is providing your mobile hotspot? Is it a smartphone or a dedicated device?

If a smartphone, is it an iPhone?

In order to establish a connection from another device to an iPhone, the hotspot screen must be active while the connection is being made.

If you are using any Raspberry Pi other than a 3 model B Plus, 4 or 400 (technically the 5 as well, but HamVoIP still isn't running on that yet), make sure your mobile hotspot is actually putting out a 2.4gHz SSID, otherwise the Pi won't find it.

Starting with the iPhone 11, there is a checkbox in "personal Hotspot" to enable compatibility mode, which forces the phone to use 2.4gHz instead of 5gHz for it's hosted hotspot.
Another consideration is special characters in the SSID. If your hotspot name is, for example, Dick's iPhone, you may run into problems connecting. This has come up several times in a few different places.
If the hotspot is an iPhone, and your SSID contains an apostrophe, the apostrophe character isn't actually an apostrophe, but an odd unicode character. In this case, the easiest fix is to just change the name of the phone, which changes the hotspot SSID, to one that doesn't include that character.

73
N2DYI

On 6/27/2024 10:28 AM, N9EEE - Dick via wrote:
I am having difficulty obtaining a WiFi connection to my SHARI unit. I've followed the online prompts to add a WiFi source (my mobile hotspot) yet when disconnecting the LAN and rebooting the SHARI unit, there is no internet connection. The WiFi capability is enabled within the software. The software verifies wpa supplicant is the mobile hotspot username and passcode. When I reconnect with the LAN, it works as it should. Then dropping the LAN and repowering the SHARI results with no internet connection. Any thoughts how to resolve this?

Dick N9EEE



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Dick Strassburger

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