Flustered

Hi, I’m very new to Pi, Linux, and well quite honestly anything but windows or dos. That said I seem to be totally lost as to what I am doing wrong with setting up my wifi on RISC, I recorded my DNS and IP from a windows machine, played with RISC so many times I’ve reinstalled it fresh 4 times ( to undo settings I dinked with ). Any help would be awesome I like RISC best of all the pi os’s because it is so fast.

Any info I can offer to assist you assisting me (lol) I can provide.

all the other pi os’s had no problem with setting up my wifi btw.

1. It’s called RISC OS.
2. RISC OS has no Wi-Fi support, and is unlikely to gain it any time soon.

A Raspberry Pi running RISC OS can be connected to a wireless router via WiFi using an Ethernet→Wifi bridge or adapter. These ethernet→WiFi adapters can be purchased relatively cheaply, although they are more expensive that a normal USB WiFi ‘dongle’.

But these ethernet→WiFI adapters do work, and allow the RPi running RISC OS to be used on trains etc., using the Lapdock as an HDMI screen and keyboard.

Ralph

Thank your for the positive input Ralph, I will shop around for one.

Hope you get it all set up OK. Welcome to the forum!

Welcome Jon. Whereabouts are you based? There might be a user group nearby that you can go along to for some advice.

If you are near London, I’m duty bound to point out that there is a meeting this Monday :-)

http://www.rougol.jellybaby.net/index.html

My WiFi adapter is the Edimax BR-6258n. It bridges Ethernet to Wifi and hadles WPA encryption et al. Conects to the Ethernet connector on the RPi and is powered by 5v via a USB connection.

Ralph

Hi Jon,
You’ll find that RISC OS is perhaps a little primitive compared to other OS on the Pi. However, as you say, it’s incredibly fast by comparison. A Raspberry Pi for Linux is extremely slow compared to most Linux PCs, conversely, for RISC OS, it’s very fast compared to what came before. If you can accept RISC OS’s limitations, it’s an very satisfying and useful OS.

I just use wired ethernet on mine, and it’s very easy to set up and get going on.

Cheers

Garry