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Well, it still has the exact same issue after following your directions. It will say it is connected, but lists itself as 0% (I assume that is signal strength?) I’m going to go out on a limb, and assume that it’s the adaptor, and that it’s probably not going to be worth the fight to make it work.

I do plan to get a new adaptor, but I have my brother visiting with his kids next week, and had hoped to have wireless working before they got here. This limits what they can do with it somewhat, but they should still be able to have some fun with it.

Thanks for the help guys.

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But I did have it connecting on its own – before I made those changes, the retropie wifi configuration tool couldn’t see any networks.

I’m not trying to be contrary here – the truth is, I am very new to Linux and don’t really know well what I’m doing – just telling you what I’m seeing here.

I also noticed that when it is connected, it says “Connected to Cisco05497” Nickname: “Wifi@realtek 0%

Is it just not generating a strong enough signal? The router is in the same room, maybe 15 feet or so from my pi, so I wouldn’t have thought signal was an issue.

If you still think I should change the file back, I will give it a try – is there a concise walkthrough somewhere for using the wpa supplicant roaming feature?

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I still seem to be having problems. I can connect, but the connection keeps going up and down.

I have done: sudo nano /etc/network/interfaces

And I have written it this way:

auto lo

iface lo inet loopback
iface eth0 inet dhcp

allow-hotplug wlan0
auto wlan0
iface wlan0 inet dhcp
wpa-ssid “NETWORK_NAME”
wpa-psk “NETWORK_PASSWORD”

I have also tried:

auto lo

iface lo inet loopback
iface eth0 inet dhcp

allow-hotplug wlan0
auto wlan0
iface wlan0 inet dhcp
wpa-ssid “NETWORK_NAME”
wpa-psk “NETWORK_PASSWORD”
wireless-power off

Any other suggestions?

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Well… I feel like an idiot – I just realized what “->” means – I think I have it set up – I’ll come back here if it doesn’t work.

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Thanks again. I take it some of the emulators come with whatever files are necessary, and some of them have an install entirely separate from the BIOS? I had wondered if I needed to do that, but since I was running N64 and Sega ROMs just fine, I thought I must not.

Thanks for having patience with a noob!

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Thanks for the response. I ended up just blowing away the image, and getting the Retropie 3.0 image, so all the games I wanted gone are gone anyway.

Something else I have ran into – every Atari 800 game I try to run, I get a screen that tells me that “this game needs a real Atari machine” – is that a problem with the ROMs, or do I need to do something to configure the emulator?

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Thanks! If anyone knows the answer to the USB syncing question, I’d still be curious to know… if not, I’ll find out myself later.

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Thanks for the response. I might just get a new adaptor… this is one I borrowed from my sister, so I was planning to get a new one anyway. Does anyone know of a list of adaptors specifically supported out of box by Retropie? I have tried looking at a few different lists, and the only one I could find confirmed was the Adafruit wifi adaptor, but I haven’t found any lists specific to Retropie.

Thanks again.

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