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    Author: Praveen Kumar

    Wi-Fi for Pi

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    # 9/3, 2nd floor, Sree Laksmi Complex, opp, to Vivekananda Park, Girinagar, Bangalore - 560085,

    Email: [email protected], Phone: 080 - 26722726

    Introduction:

    The Raspberry Pi has many great features straight out of the box, unfortunately Wi-Fi is not one of them,

    in this guide Ill show you how I Wi-Fi equipped my Raspberry PI.One of the first things that you will want

    to do is to get your Raspberry Pi connected up to the Internet. In this lesson, you will learn how to:

    Use a Wi-Fi adapter with both Raspbian

    Find out the IP address of your Raspberry Pi

    Prerequisites

    Raspberry Pi 512 MB

    USB cable

    8SD card class 4

    WI-FI module

    Putty (or) VNC viewer (or) DVI port monitor

    Wi-Fi module:

    Step 1:

    Boot the Raspberry Pi without the Wi-Fi adapter plugged in.

    Step 2:

    Open a Terminal session by clicking on the LX Terminal icon, and enter the following command

    into it:

    sudo nano /etc/network/interfaces

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    Step 3:

    This opens an editor screen of the Wi-Fi configuration file you need to change.

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    Change the SSID name and Password

    Step 4:

    Restart the system and the connect the Wi-Fi

    Step 5:

    You can find the IP address of your computer, either by opening the Wi-Fi setup tool again. The IP

    address will appear at the bottom of the Window. Open up a LX Terminal window and type the

    following command:

    sudo ifconfig

    auto lo

    iface lo inet loopback

    iface eth0 inet dhcp

    allow-hotplug wlan0

    auto wlan0

    .iface wlan0 inet dhcp

    . wpa-ssid "ssid"

    . wpa-psk "password"

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    Email: [email protected], Phone: 080 - 26722726

    (If you having monitor to view the GUI then you can go with following alternate

    method)

    Step 6:

    Insert a Wi-Fi module and click the Wi-Fi icon which is in Desktop

    Step 7:

    After inserting Wi-Fi module click the connect thats it Wi-Fi activated in your pi.

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    Email: [email protected], Phone: 080 - 26722726

    Step 8:

    Now you can use your pi with an Wi-Fi module.

    Links:

    Raspberry Pi-http://www.tenettech.com/product/2184/tenet-technetronicsraspberry-pi

    Wi-Fi for Pi -http://www.tenettech.com/product/2719/wifi-for-raspberry-pi

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