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WiPi Setup
14.
You can now
connect the WiPi to
one of the USB
headers on the
board. Typing
dmesg | tail
into
the console will
show that the WiPi
has been detected
and installed
15.
You can discover the name of the
wireless device by typing
iwconfig
into the terminal, this
will display a list of connections.
As can be seen in the image
below the wireless connection is
named “wlan0”
16.
Check that the
wireless device is up
by typing
ip link
show wlan0
into the
terminal
17.
Notice that in step
16 the content
inside the angle
brackets does not
indicate that the
device is currently
“up”. This can be
rectified by entering
ip link set wlan0
up
and re-entering
the
ip link show
wlan0
command
Notice how the device is now up.
18.
Check the connection status with
iwconfig wlan0
