WIFI editing tool from retropie setup or emulationstation

[pattaboy]

Wouldn’t it be so easy for those who have a wifi dongle to change the SSID and password from the retropie setup or emulationstation.

This is really easy to do and will only edit the /etc/network/interfaces/ file.

You’re thinking why would I set up wifi for retropie.
Well for scraping it’s pretty handy but other than that I have installed kodi on it and if I want to bring my retropie to somebody else and watch a movie. then I need to edit the files in other to change the wifi settings on the device.

Maybe I can do this within kodi but thus far I haven’t found any solution yet.

[herbfargus]

I second this request. I’ve added your request to github: https://github.com/retropie/RetroPie-Setup/issues/811

[denus]

I’m using wicd-curses: it’s a nice little network connection manager that can manage wireless (and also wired) interfaces.

sudo apt-get install wicd-curses
sudo wicd-curses

[herbfargus]

It has been added. Thank you for your suggestion.

https://github.com/retropie/RetroPie-Setup/commit/7a733ccc4ccfe7afc1fae7c31f31235572844d88

For steps on how to update it see this post:

Rpi2 Retropie 3.0 BETA Wifi Issues

And for a quick tutorial on how to use the tool (wicd-curses) see the first option on this post: https://github.com/retropie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/Setting-Up-Wifi

It will be included in future releases of retropie.

[pattaboy]

[quote=96550]It has been added. Thank you for your suggestion.

https://github.com/retropie/RetroPie-Setup/commit/7a733ccc4ccfe7afc1fae7c31f31235572844d88

For steps on how to update it see this post:

https://www.petrockblock.com/forums/topic/rpi2-retropie-3-0-beta-wifi-issues/

And for a quick tutorial on how to use the tool (wicd-curses) see the first option on this post: https://github.com/retropie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/Setting-Up-Wifi

It will be included in future releases of retropie.

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Wow awesome! glad to help.
wicd works great with it.

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