I got my Netgear wifi dongle working with my raspberry pi model A.
Here’s how I did it.
Plug in the Netgear WG111
The RPi should see it right away (verify usinglsusb ) and you’ll see something like wlan0 using ifconfig
Edit the wpa_supplicant.conf file and add the desired SSID and passphrase you want to connect to:
nano /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
Append to this file the following array:
network={
ssid="my_ssid"
psk="my_passphrase"
}
Save and close the file, then bring the interface up:
sudo ifup wlan0
Verify that you’re online by pinging an online service
ping www.google.com
Nice instruction. I got mine working too 🙂
My raspberry pi (Model B, Rev 1) detects it as a usb device, but not a wlan. What should I do?
Is it the same dongle I’m using? Maybe it’s not compatible with the model B. (that would be weird but it’s possible.) Do you have another dongle you can try? I’m afraid without the RPi model you have, I don’t know how I can help. Use your Googlefu!