RP2 RetroPie issue

[dpadder]

Hi I have installed RetroPie 2 image from a user and it works great but when I try to run startx command I get a little white screen showing the command prompt but you can’t do anything. I was hoping to use this to connect my wifi dongle. It is almost like the image does not have the rasping GUI?

Any ideas? I have updated and upgraded the image to no effect?

Other than this my controls and games work perfect :-)

Thanks

Keith

[chdez77076]

There is no Raspian GUI.
They stripped it since 2.4.
Theres other ways to set up your wi-fi using the command prompt.
Maybe this will help!
http://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/configuration/wireless/wireless-cli.md

[raoulangel]

The GUI made it easier to map a drive to my network storage and drag / drop files I needed to the Pi. Is there a similar procedure I can employ now that the GUI is gone?

[chdez77076]

https://filezilla-project.org/

You can use this!
All you need is your IP Address.

[raoulangel]

I tried that, it doesn’t see it on the network. I even enabled SSH.. It worked fine with Piplay but I do not like that interface..

[herbfargus]

Its pretty easy to set up the WiFi dongle through the terminal without the need for the wpa-gui. See post #6436 at https://www.petrockblock.com/forums/topic/getting-wifi-working-with-retropie/

It worked well for me. I then used winscp to connect. IP typically will be 192.168.0.110 with username pi and password raspberry. (Or username root depending on if you need to modify other files)

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