On 19/03/18 10:55, Jan Panteltje wrote:
> On a sunny day (Mon, 19 Mar 2018 09:44:01 +0000) it happened druck
>  wrote in :
>
>> On 18/03/18 20:03, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>>> wifi is not peer to peer. Yu have effective masters and clients. If =
>> you
>>> dont have master software running on the pi nothing will 'connect to it=
>> '
>>
>> WiFi supports both infrastructure and adhoc modes, so both client/access =
>>
>> point and peer to peer.
>>
>> ---druck
>
> It is always difficult to answer the OP question without more info,
> much better he should read the linux [wireless] networking howto.
> There are some simple commands you can enter in a terminal as root
> to find out about your network status, like
>   iwconfig
> (and ifconfig of course), and
>   iwlist scanning
> to see what clients, if any, it sees.
>
> May take some time, but guessing takes much longer...
>
> Also if it suddenly stops working: anybody else close by on that channel?
> Now I am guessing myself ;-(
> Change channel?
>
> I had an old pi with a wifi adaptor as access point.
> After things got hacked everything is wired here.
> Can always plug it back in if needed.
> For music local short distance use bluetooth works fine.
> Even then I use an ebay bluetooth transmitter that takes audio in...
> No setup and can be used on any audio output.
> Anyways all the high power WiFi is not good for you,
> do not want it next to my head.
> I know it is big business, but so are opiods and other drugs.
>
I use ifconfig to find the devices ip addresses, but when the Pi3 is not
hardwired, wifi does not work, and even typing the ip address in a web
browser fails.

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