[tjans]

I tried to do the apt-get stuff again and something happend corrupting my SD card, so I reimaged it and started over. It’s currently doing the apt-get update right now, so it’ll be an hour or so, i think before its done…i’ll see if this helps…

[tjans]

I’m trying your suggestion now, finhead. I didn’t know I could drop to console with F4. It seems to be going a lot faster now…

I am however seeing some errors like dpkg: error while cleaning up, unable to restore backup version of … read only file system and some other errors…

[tjans]

Everything seemed to jive after a few attempts. It failed to get stuff first time through each step but a second step fixed it. Not sure what the deal is.

[tjans]

Well, it’s back to not connecting again. I’m not sure what the deal is but perhaps the Wi-Fi is just spotty on the pi3 with Retropie and I’ll have to wait for more updates. Bummer, but I’ll just have to tether for now.

P.S. I’m on channel 6…

[tjans]

So, a little progress, I first tried the

sudo iwconfig wlan0 power off

And I got it to connect, but I can’t access it via \\retropie or SSH in via the IP address, so something still isn’t right. I’ll tweak my router tonight to see if I can get an open channel. Stay tuned and thanks thus far for the help!

[tjans]

I planned on trying both. Thanks gents, will report back…

[tjans]

Alrighty, I’ll try that and report back this evening. Thanks…

[tjans]

What does the rc.locale thing do? Is that so that when I reboot it keeps that setting? I’m guessing that power setting is temporary if I run it from the command line…

[tjans]

finhead, thanks for the reply. I wonder why my update didn’t work then. I’ll have to keep playing with it. I tried the USB method to seed my ROMs and it worked, but I don’t agree at least for me that it’s faster with the USB. I’m part of a yearly rom hacking project and I’m constantly updating the ROM from my computer and to be able to just hit \\my.pi.ip.address\roms and dump it in the system is the quickest way for me to get updated ROMs on my pi to test out on the TV. I just prefer the finer control. Besides, having Wi-Fi working would be nice to have working for other reasons, and also I’m a geek and I don’t like my stuff in a half-working state ;) I’m sure you can understand that!

[tjans]

I don’t have it hidden, but since my AP wasn’t showing up, I tried the “hidden” option to see if I could force it to connect. I finally got my SSID to show up, but it still won’t connect to it. I’m not sure what to do at this point, though I’ll try the channel thing and try moving it around. That said, my Pi is about 10 feet from my AP so I’d imagine that’s not the issue. I’ll try anything though as not having wi-fi makes it difficult to put ROMs on it…

[tjans]

Ok, so after two attempts at apt-get update and another two at upgrade and several hours of waiting, the process completed successfully.

I restarted my pi and my router and the ssid showed up. I tried connecting but still says its unable to connect. My other devices and computers are connecting fine but not the pi.

You are correct, only the 2.4 shows up, not the 5ghZ

[tjans]

Doing so now. It’s taking a while!

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